March/April 1994

FEATURES

Covering Health Care Reform: Round Two
by Trudy Leberman

The Selling of "Clinton Lite"
How a relatively unknown congressman named Cooper managed to persuade the media that his bill was "a major force" in the debate, and how the press made it so.

A Guide to Flashpoints, Options, and Inside Moves
The legislative battle over health care has just begun, and the issues are hard enough to follow - let alone explain - without a scorecard.

The Man in the Mirror
What Esquire, GQ, Men's Journal, and Details tell us about the American male
by Judith Levine

East meets West
An inside view of what happened when Japan's biggest network went global and tried to bridge the gulf between Japanese and Western journalistic values
by Spencer Sherman

Chronicle

• The penis chronicles
• The carrot chronicles
• Miami's Haitian murder mystery
• "Explaining" the Dow
• Borderline: free-lancing in Mexico
• Kosovo: a farm-journal becomes a voice of independence
• Covering/leading the community
• Follow-up: suing for database dollars

Capital Letter
How to Handle Dirty Stories (And Still Feel Clean)
by Christopher Hanson

The Media and Me
The Radiation Story No One Would Touch
by Geoffrey Sea

Technology
A Trip Down the Information Highway
by Todd Oppenheimer
Side Trips to Cyberspace
by Kurt Kleiner

Opinion
Iran-Contra: The Press Indicts the Prosecutor
by Malcolm Byrne and Peter Kornbluh

On the Job
Should Gays Cover Gay issues?
by Keith Eddings

Books

• Out of Order
  by Thomas E. Patterson
  reviewed by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
• Reading Football
  by Michael Oriard
  reviewed by Peter Andrews
• Theirs Was the Kingdom
  by  John Heidenry
  reviewed by Frederick Allen

Letters
Darts and Laurels
Short Takes:

• Live From the Battlefield
• All Politics is Local and Other Rules of the Game
• There's No Such Thing as Free Speech
• President Kennedy: Profiles of Power
• A Drinking Life: A Memoir

The Lower Case