November/December 1995

Smoking Guns
ABC, Philip Morris, and the Infamous Apology
by Steve Weinberg

Letter from Paris
The Rise of the Fouille-Merdes
Or, Why Investigative Journalism in France is No Longer a Contradiction in Terms
by Mark Hunter

How to Downsize a Reporter
A Chilling Internal Memo from Times Mirror Management

What Michael Ovitz Knows About Managing the News
 A cautionary Tale for Journalists Who Will Record the Next Chapter -- at Disney/Cap Cities/ABC -- in the Super-Agent's Ascendancy
by Neal Koch

Darts and Laurels

WHOWHATWHEREWHYWHEN

The war in Detroit

NPR, PBS, CPB, and $$$

What Mike Wallace heard in Argentina

Who calls the shots in Singapore

Feiffer: Take me!

A wounded Eagle

RESOURCE
Taking Inflation Seriously
by Robert Sahr

TECHNOLOGY
"The Tablet" Lives, Sort of
by Stephen D. Isaacs

BOOKS

David Brinkley: A Memoir
Reviewed by Neil Hickey

Walker Evans: A Biography
by Belinda Rathbone
Reviewed by William McGowan

A Good Life
Newspapering and Other Adventures
by Ben Bradlee
Reviewed by Piers Brendon

Publisher's Note
Darts & Laurels
Letters
Short Takes
The Lower Case