January/February 1993 | 1993 Index

FEATURES

Covering the Cops
A TV show moves in where journalists fear to tread
by Jon Katz

Covering the Crimes
What a steady diet of death and depravity can do to a reporter
by Mark Pinsky

The Mozote Massacre
It was the reporters' word against the government's - and the reporters paid a price. Recently, new evidence has come to light
by Mike Hoyt

"Official Sources," "Western Diplomats," and Other Voices from the Mission
by Frank Smith

Al Gore's Other Big Week
Back in 1974, two stories by a young investigative reporter shook up Nashville
by E. Thomas Wood

A Bad Case of the '80s
Can a once-vital newspaper recover from the age of excess?
by Howard Kurtz

Chronicle

• Flying close to the news
• Who's looking at your phone records
• 1942: the invisible evacuees
• Did AIPAC get an editor fired?
• San Francisco's homeless reporter
• Resources: Got a question?
• Follow-up: the killings in Turkey
• Document: A Sign of the Times

Campaign '92
Degrees of Sleaze
by Victor Navasky

On the Job
The Rise of the Super-Interns
by Kim Nauer

Judgment Call
When Scoop Meets Sting
by Dary Matera

Opinion
Is Alma Mater a Sacred Cow?
by Steve Weinberg

Technology
Casting the Internet
by Joe Abernathy

Books:
Acceptable Risks
by Jonathan Kwitny
reviewed by Stuart Schear

Editor's Note
Letters
Darts and Laurels
Short Takes:

• The Double Life of Stephen Crane, by Christopher Benfey
• The Club Rules: Power, Money, Sex, and Fear - How it Works in Hollywood, by Paul Rosenfield
• The Best and the Brightest: Twentieth-Anniversary Edition, by David Halberstam

The Lower Case