The media and the recession: HOW BAD IS IT?

• The compay line and the bottom line
  by Karen Rothmyer
• The unpleasant role of terminator
• The pain of being terminated
  interviews by Cassandra Tate
• Ripples in Rio
  by Bill Hinchberger

a lost generation
by Richard E. Kipling

A Baghdad Baedeker
Tips on sources and sights you might otherwise miss on a tour of the Iraqi capital
by Michael Massing

Who will unwrap the October Surprise?
The behavior of the press is itself a surprise
by Julie Cohen

New cameras in new hands

• Camcorders: When amateurs go after the news
  by Greg Luft
• Hi 8: Expanding the role of the TV reporter
  by John Brodie

Deconstruction and the get-real press
How journalists handle a literary theory that challenges the very idea of reality
by Mitchell Stephens

Chronicle

• Getting the dirt on money-laundering
• Short circuiting the electric chair
• Confessions of a magazine focus groupie
• Why TV is slow to cover bad cops
• Those young-reader pages: a report card

Capital Letter
Campaign '92
Dan Quayle: the sequel
by William Boot

Maverick
Jon Alpert: odd man out
by Michael Hoyt

Books

• Deadlines: Our Times and The New York Times
  by James Reston
  reviewed by Eric Alterman
• Feeding Frenzy
  by Larry J. Sabato
  reviewed by Laurence I. Barrett
• Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way
  by Ken Auletta
  reviewed by Howard Kurtz

Letters

Darts and Laurels

Shorts Takes

The Lower Case