March/April 1993 | 1993 Index

FEATURES

Sticking With the Union?
From the New York Daily News to the Los Angeles Times, the Newspaper Guild is fighting for its future
by Stephen J. Simurda

Tina's New Yorker
Last fall, Tina Brown - the very British editor of the very trendy Vanity Fair - became editor of a very different kind of magazine, and promptly made it hers
by Eric Utne

Mr. Shawn's New Yorker
by Lawrence Weschler

Dead Right
Manuel de Dios's investigative reporting on the drug trade in New York was sometimes reckless, but often on target - and it got him killed
by Bill Berkeley

Free Press Blues
Here Comes the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss
In Slovakia, progress toward free expression hasn't been merely slow - it's been reversed.
by Rob Urban and laura Zelenko

Tab Plagues Prague!
by Erin Kely

Iraqgate: The Big One That (Almost) Got Away
Who chased it - and who didn't
by Russ W. Baker

Chronicle

• Israeli TV: sea change on the airwaves
• How Gannett 2000 is playing in Burlington
• Business Week's libel lesson
• Portrait of a language czar
• Public radio's cheap air
• Canada: governement as TV critic
• Follow-up: From XS to Ice

Technology
The Downside of Wonderland
by Andrew Schneider

Books

• Read All About It! The Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers
  by James D. Squires
  reviewed by Howard Kurtz
• The Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium is Not the Message
  by Douglas Davis
  reviewed by Walter Goodman
• Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory
  by Barbie Zelizer
  reviewed by James Boylan

Letters
Darts and Laurels
Sound Bite
Short Takes:

• The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)

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