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CJRColumbia Journalism Review

May/June 1996 | 1996 Index

Should the Coverage Fit the Crime?
A Texas TV station tries to resist the allure of mayhem
by Joe Holley

ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL:

Lost in Never Land
Let's play primary!
by Christopher Hanson

Photo Essay: It's All in the Eyes
by P.F. Bentley

Is There Life After Layoff?
Five stories of job-hunting and soul-searching
by Mary Ellen Schoonmaker

Comes the Devolution
Power to the States! But are the media ready?
by Rob Gurwitt

Statehouse coverage: Drowning in Shallow Waters
By Gene Roberts

WHOWHATWHEREWHYWHEN

 Unforgiven trespasses at Florida Today

 Feiffer: The millenium news

 Sunset for the Sunshine Act?

 The Palestinian press under Arafat's thumb

 Campaign '96: More cybersources

 MTV gets older -- and wiser?

 Russia: Boosting independent TV

RESOURCE

NEW ONLINE: Cybersources

Covering Those Forgotten Judicial Races
by Daniel J. Foley

ABOUT BOOKS

Blood Sport: The President and his Adversaries
by James B. Stewart
Reviewed by James Boylan

Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television
by Ted Koppel and Kyle Gibson
Reviewed by Howard Kurtz

The Buying of the President
by Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity
Reviewed by Steve Weinberg

Publisher's Note
Letters
Darts & Laurels
Short Takes:

Heart: A Memoir, by Lance Morrow

Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the 1950s, by Nora Sayre

Words Still Count With Me, by Herbert Mitgang

Everyone's Gone to the Moon, by Philip Norman

The Lower Case