The Hollywood treatment
Why it's so hard to tell the Tinseltown story if you don't follow the studio script
by Neal Koch

South Africa Now:
A pioneering program fights for its life
by Norman Oder

Media-bashing in Boston
A look at the press John Silber detests
by Richard Todd

The Journalist's Life
THe riots that shaped a career
William Serrin
interviewed by Karen Rothmyer

The candidate and the reporter
Whose campaign is it, anyway?
by Daniel C. Hallin

CJR Fax Poll
Are your ready for '92?

Editor's Note
Agenda for a new year
by Suzanne Braun Levine

Chronicle

• A case of plagiarism at The Wall Street Journa?
• Forward with the Forward
• The Sacramento Union: why I quit
• The Sacramento Union: why liberals pick on us
• A crusader in Kenya
• Resources: how to find Africa
• Follow-up: Is Baghdad in Brazil?

Capital Letter
The press goes to Boot camp
by William Boot

Darts and Laurels

On the Job
Steve's brain
by Steve Weinberg

Books

• Newsday: A Candid History of the Respectable Tabloid
  by Robert F. Keeler
  reviewed by James Boylan
• Three books on media bias
  reviewed by David Shaw

Short Takes

Letters

The Lower Case