July/August 1994

FEATURES

Local Hero
Gabe Pressman helped invent local television journalism; now he's struggling to uphold its standards
by Mike Hoyt

Covering the New World Disorder
The press rushes in where Clinton fears to tread
by Leon Hadar

The Once (and Future?) Independent
London's youngest and most promising daily falls on hard times
by D.D. Guttenplan

Richard Nixon's Last Campaign
by David Halberstam

Talkin' Bout Their Generation
The twentysomething magazine scene
by Liza Featherstone

Chronicle

• The Bond Buyer's blues
• Beyond "dance and dysfunction" in Alaska
• Chris Whittle's shrunken empire
• More shots at violent news
• The cutting edge in Croatia
• Resources: getting into prison
• Italy's Berlusconi: "his broadcastership"

On the Job
Buying News
by Bruce Serlcraig

Media and Me
The View of You from Capitol Hill
by Jonathan Rowe

Books

• Peddling Prosperity:
  Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations
  by Paul Krugman
  reviewed by J.D. Brown
• The Watchful Eye:
  American Justice in the Age of the Television Trial
  by Paul Thaler
  reviewed by James Boylan

Letters
Darts and Laurels
Short Takes

• The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall
• Leaving Home: A Memoir
• Running as a Woman: Gender and Power in American Politics
• James Beard: A Biography
• Selling God

The Lower Case