July/August 1992

Features

L.A. Stories: A City Ablaze Casts a Glaring Light on the Press

"Get the Hell Out of Here!"
by Stephanie O'Neill

Where Have You Been?"
by Carol Bradley Shirley

The Missing Beat
by Andre F. Shashaty

"That Special Perspective They Say They Want"
by Lisa G. Baird

TV, Violence, and the Return of Radical Chic
by Walter Goodman

Pull-Out Section:
Focus on Children - A Handbook for Journalists
Selected resources for covering such issues as education, health, child care, welfare reform, and the campaign debate on "family values"

Last Days of the Newspaper Saloon
A toast to the Gray Lady's home bar
by Larry Shannon and Betsy Wade

Campaign '92
Lending Weight to the "Great Debates"
A dozen questions designed to remind journalists and candidates that there's a whole world out there
by Michael Massing

The Wichita Experiment
What happens when a newspaper tries to connect readership and citizenship?
by Michael Hoyt

TV's Talking Headaches
When covering a crisis, the networks call on experts - but show little expertise when it comes to choosing and using them
by Janet Steele
Sidebar: Expert, with Ax

Campaign Coverage
Out of it:
While Perot gets through to the voters, the press gets lost on the campaign trail
By D.D. Guttenplan

Chronicle

• Patriot games: the Desert Storm tapes
• Salvador's radio guerrillas at peace
• Where TV reporters stand(-up)
• Look who's censoring the Taiwan press
• A night at the gas chamber
• NASA's tips on how to hide
• Moscow's press: free but fading
• Follow-up: the case of the unwarned stringer
• On the Job
  The Overtime Wars
  By Allan Freedman

Books

• The Reporter Who Would be King:
  A Biography of Richard Harding Davis
  By Arthur Lubow
  Reviewed by Raymond A. Schroth
• The Super Pollsters:
  How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America
  By David Moore
  Reviewed by Leo Bogart

Letters
Darts and Laurels

Short Takes

• The Age of Missing Information, by Bill McKibben
• Who Will Tell the People, by William Greider
• Unreasonable Behavior: An Autobiography

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