Columbia Journalism Review back issues from November 2006:
Assignment Iraq.(A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS)
Nov 01, 2006 ... In the middle of 2003, not long after President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in May to tell the world that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended," Time Books came out with a glossy hardback titled 21 Days to Baghdad--The Inside Story of How America Won the War Against Iraq ....
Election blues.(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2006; ... Thanks for your editorial "Guarding the Vote: The Press and the Lessons of Ohio" (CJR, September/October). But I'm afraid the criticism of the mainstream media regarding the 2004 election should be even harsher than the editorial allows. Most important, there would have been ...
Unconventional news.(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2006; ... Eric Umansky's article on the U.S. media's coverage of American torture ("Failures of Imagination," CJR, September/October) raises a number of important, and troubling, issues. However, I must point out an omission. Jane's Defence Weekly, although published in the U.K., is ...
Power failure?(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2006; ... The headline on your editorial "False Fronts: Why to Look Behind the Label" (OR, July/August) irresponsibly twisted the facts surrounding the formation of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition. From the outset, the Nuclear Energy Institute informed journalists interested in the ...
Darts & Laurels.(newspaper reports )
Nov 01, 2006; ... DART to the Palo Alto Daily News, for blindly toeing the local line. "Everybody," as was noted on Slate's August 11 roundup of Today's Papers, "leads with the big, foiled terror plot in which twenty-four British men, mostly of Pakistani descent, were arrested and are suspected of plotting ...
The Death of Supply Column 21: a lesson from the Vietnam war on the press, the military, and authority.
Nov 01, 2006; ... The Associated Press bureau that operated out of Saigon starting in mid-1965 was a great one--a place of legends, a bureau created by arguably the most underrated editor of that era. Wes Gallagher was new at his job as general manager of the AP, and determined from the start to show that ...
Into the abyss: reporting Iraq, 2003-2006: an oral history.(In the Beginning--Turning Points)(Cover story)
Nov 01, 2006 ... In August 2004, CJR asked Farnaz Fassihi of The Wall Street Journal to keep a diary of her time in Iraq. Before we could print her piece, we were scooped, inadvertently, by Fassihi herself. She often sent e-mails to friends, and her September 2004 letter reflected her mood at the time: ...
Into the Abyss: reporting Iraq, 2003-2006: an oral history.(The Embeds--The Continuing Story)
Nov 01, 2006 ... The Embeds Dan Murphy The Christian Science Monitor Embedding is a fancy word for letting journalists go see what the military units do, although that was much more wide open in the Vietnam War, although that was much more of an anomaly of American ...
Fear of yoga: today, the Hindu practice of health and spirituality is loved by everybody--including the press, But it took a couple of centuries to get there.
Nov 01, 2006; ... Yoga is the Survivor of the culture wars: unbloodied, unmuddied, unbothered by the media's slings and arrows, its leotard still as pristine as its reputation. Everybody loves yoga; sixteen and a half million Americans practice it regularly, and twenty-five million more say they will try it ...
The desegregation drama: the white news media came late to the scene. But when they finally did arrive, the battle was joined.(The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation)(Book review)
Nov 01, 2006; ... THE RACE BEAT: THE PRESS, THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE, AND THE AWAKENING OF A NATION by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff Alfred A. Knopf. 518 pp. $30 It is impossible to read a history of press coverage of the civil rights movement without reflecting darkly on today's era of secret ...
Inside jokes.(Annenberg School for Communication report)
Nov 01, 2006; ... After White House-bound Bill Clinton donned shades and played the sax on The Arsenio Hall Show in June 1992, a small intellectual industry emerged to examine the relationship between entertainment and politics. Media watchdogs began counting jokes on Leno and Letterman to make sure ...
True courage.(risks journalists take)
Nov 01, 2006; ... "What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk?" The Cowardly Lion, musing in The Wizard of Oz, had one explanation: "Courage!" It's the same quality that underpins exceptional journalism in the twenty-first century, according to the former Time magazine ...