May/June 1992

Features

Watergate: A Study in Mythology
It's been twenty years since the break-in. Did the press really bring down the president? Did Watergate really change the press?
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by Michael Schudson

Trying to Set the Agenda in Miami
Bashing the Herald is only part of the strategy of a prominent Cuban exile
by Anne-Marie O'Connor

Shaking up the ÒGreat DebatesÓ
Memos from: Don Hewitt, Roger Morris, Ann Lewis, Todd Gitlin, Jody Powell, James Weinstein, James David Barber, David Aaron, and Kevin Phillips

``Miracle Max" and the Marveling Media
Only a couple of U.S. reporters were on to Robert Maxwell's house-of-cards con. Why did the rest of us fall for it?
by D.D. Guttenplan

Local Heroes
Haiti: A Voice from the Underground
by Linda R. Prout

Argentina: A Fix on Corruption
by Joel Millman

The Philippines: A Fighter for the Forests
by Julie Triedman

Chronicle

• When TV reporters don't report
• Voices from Tabloid Valley
• How scary is Milkovich?
• A reporter's farewell
• Media bust, J-school boom
• Runs, hits, eros
• Follow-up: the ad-edit wall

Campaign Coverage
Sex, War, and Death
Covering Clinton Became a Character Test - For the Press
by Christopher Lydon

Technology
Quantum Leaps:
Computer Journalism Takes Off
by George Landau

Plugging Into Government
by Sharon Fisher

Plugging Into Cyberspace
by Neil M. Reisner

Books

• I've Seen the Best of It
  by Joseph W. Alsop
  reviewed by Eric Alterman
• Dead Elvis:
  A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
  by Greil Marcus
  reviewed by Jon Katz
• To the End of Time:
  The Seduction and Conquest of a Media Empire
  by Richard M. Clurman
  reviewed by Jane Ciabattari

Letters
Darts and Laurels

Short Takes

• The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and The New York Times, by Nan Robertson
• Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat, by Edna Buchanan
• Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton
• Free Speech in an Open Society, by Rodney A. Smolla

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