January/February 1994

FEATURES

Local TV News
WFAA-TV: Bright Spot in the Lone Star State
by Joe Holley

New York 1: Upstart in the Big Apple
by Michael Powell

A Day in the Life of New York City's
twenty-four-hour cable news channel
by Jill Priluck

Insider Cynicism
Ed Rollins Meets the Press
by Christopher Hanson

Beyond Tiananmen
China: The Tight Lesh Loosens
by Allison Liu Jernow

Hong Kong: Will A Free Press Be Brought to Heel?
by Anthony Polsky

When Gambling Comes to Town
How to cover a high-stakes story
by Stephen J. Simurda

Editor's Note
Three Wishes
by Suzane Braun Levine

Chronicle

• See no evil? Responding to an awful image
• Guns and the off-target press
• A new way of dealing with RSI
• Israil: covering the neighbors
• Pushing publishers on their cigarette habit
• Follow-up: the overtime wars

Opinion
The Myth of the Minority Reader
by Gilbert Cranberg and Vincent Rodriquez

The Law
Fouling Up Fair Use
by Steven Pressman

Technology
Desktop Democracy
by D.D. Guttenplan

The Media and Me
The NAFTA Debate that Wasn't
by Sen. Byron L. Dorgan

Books

• Inside the New York Times
  by Edwin Diamond
  reviewed by James Boylan
• Sportswriter
  by Donald Fountain
  Jim Murray: An Autobiography
  reviewed by Robert Manning

Letters
Darts and Laurels
Short Takes

• They Can Kill You... But They Can't Eat You
• The Downing Street Years
• Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years

The Lower Case