COVERING THE GULF WAR

And the press stands alone
Caught in the crossfire from the public and the Pentagon, what's a reporter to do?
by William Boot

Talking back to the tube
Veteran journalists Scott Armstrong, Peter Braestrup, William Broyles, Jr., Hodding Carter III, Phil Donahue, Reuven Frank, David Gergen, David Halberstam, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, and Liz Trotta weigh in on what they saw.
interviews by Richard Valeriani

The drums of August
The media's role in the early weeks of the crisis
by Arthur E. Rowse

Collateral damage to network news
Broadcast news faces a new world order, too
by Jon Katz

Is the most popular evening newscast the best?
ABC's World News Tonight enjoys a commanding lead in the ratings. But what makes it different isn't what you might expect.
by Michael Massing

The new storytellers
Nowadays when a story breaks, many papers send out not just a writer and a photographer, but also a "graphics reporter." A look at what this new member of the newsroom team can do.
by Scott Aiges

Malcolm, Masson and you
The Supreme Court will soon rule on the celebrated Masson-Malcolm libel case. The ruling may put journalists in a real bind when it comes to using quotes.
by Michael Hoyt

Chronicle

• The Interfax advantage: a new Soviet source
• Reporters and political expression
• How much video PR gets on the news?
• Should television cover executions?
• Fighting words in the gulf
• Castro's chickens -- or was it pigs?

Opinion
Campaign '92
Getting over pack guilt
by Laurence I. Barrett

A downside to shield laws
by Gilbert Cranberg

On the Job
A striker's diary
On the picket lines at the Daily News
by Joel Siegel

Judgment Call
Seeing the light...
or feeling the heat?
The case of the recanted editorial

Books
Who killed Don Bolles?
Loud and Clear
by Lake Headley with William Hoffman
reviewed by Steve Weinberg

Letters

Darts and Laurels

Short Takes

The Lower Case