November/December 1992

Features: Campaign '92

Report Card on the Press
Covering A Runaway Campaign

Week by week, the campaign
- and the coverage - that was
by D.D. Guttenplan

Highs and Lows
Discourse: A moment of truth - on Donahue
by Jay Rosen

Jennifer: That other A-word story
by Jon Swan

Trade: Economic labels that lie
by John Judis

Women: The year of
by Jane O'Reilly

Draft: Sniping at Clinton's nonwar record
by William Broyles, Jr.

Why: Exit polls are not enough
by James Boylan

Talk Radio
Politicians pay attention to it because people do
by Mike Hoyt

Media Bashing
Could Barbara Bush be right?
by Christopher Hanson

Chronicle

• No free lunch: I.F. Stone and the KGB
• Bombay Dost : India's only gay publication
• Why TV salaries are heading south
• The Jesus People investigative team
• South Africa: why reporters are vulnerable now
• How the FBI impersonated a journalist
• Books
  Sound and Fury: The Washington Puditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics
  by Eric Alterman
  reviewed by Piers Brendon

Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes
by Helen Benedict
reviewed by Susan Rieger

Letters
Darts and Laurels
Short Takes

My Traitors' Heart, by Rian Malan

What it Takes: The Way to the White House, by Richard Ben Cramer

Truman, by David McCullough

The Lower Case