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CJRColumbia Journalism Review

March/April 1996 | 1996 Index

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A Tour of Our Uncertain Future
by Katherine Fulton

Virtual Reality Check
by Todd Oppenheimer

Thanks, Steve, We Needed That
Does an editor have to run for president before the mainstream press dares to look at the inner workings of his or her magazine?
by Edwin Diamond

I Was a "Polisher" in a Chinese News Factory
An inside view of China's giant news agency Xinhua
by Jon Swan

Photojournalism: Leni Sonnenfeld
A lifetime of "looking for symbols"
by Susan Dworkin

Travelgate: The Untold Story
Billy Dale and his friends in the press
by Joe Conason

WHOWHATWHEREWHENWHY

The Vince Foster fact factory

The Washington Post gets small

Two newspapers face a mining giant

Cartoon by Anonymous

Campaign '96: covering the vote-by-mail election

Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai's tough tabloid

CAPITAL LETTER
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
by Christopher Hanson

BOOKS

Something's Rotten
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, by James Fallows, and They Only Look Dead:
Why Progressives Will Dominate in the Next Political Era
by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Reviewed by Ellen Hume

Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time
by Howard Kurtz
Reviewed by Neil Hickey

Publisher's Note
Letters
Darts & Laurels
Short Takes

Happy Days, by Shana Alexander

An American Journey, by Colin Powell

Barry Goldwater, by Robert Alan Goldberg

The Lower Case