March/April 1992

Features

Reinventing the Media

Beyond Broadcast Journalism
How the new technological Godzillas are rearranging the electronic landscape
by Jon Katz

The Newspaper's Identity Crisis
A look at three key strategies - including the paperless newspaper - in the struggle for survival
by Doug Underwood

Campaign '92
Covering the Economy

Keeping it Simple
by Paul Solman

Pushing for Answers
by Donald Barlett and James Steele

The October Surprise
Enter the Press
The charge is treason. Three magazines have tried the case and come to different conclusions. How persuasive is their evidence?
by Steve Weinberg

Chronicle

• The subpoena club
• The dearly departed: Sunday magazines
• Iowa: Shooting the messanger
• Mexico: Excelsior's offspring
• The FBI's FOIA story
• The Netherlands: zapping TV
• Abortion and the women's magazines

On the Job
Out on a limb
The use and abuse of stringers in the combat zone
by Frank Smyth

Opinion
The press rejects a candidate
by Joshua Meyrowitz

Sexually abused children
the source you shouldn't talk to
by David Hechler

Books
J. Edgar Hoover
The Man and the Secrets
by Curt Gentry
reviewed by Piers Brendon

Battle Lines
The American Media and the Intifada
by Jim Lederman
reviewed by Michael Massing

Letters
Darts and Laurels

Short Takes

• Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union, by Robert V. Remini
• Make a Deal: How KKR Manufactured Power & Profits, by Sarah Bartlett>The Money Machine/LI>
• Under Fire: An American Story, by Oliver L North with William Novak

The Lower Case