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March 30, 2003

• War & the Media

March 09, 2003

• Were White House Reporters Used as Cogs in Pro-War Machine?; What Is Life Like for Journalists on Front Lines?

February 23, 2003

• Are American Networks Beating War Drums in Confrontation With Iraq?; Is European Press Sympathetic to Anti-War Forces?

February 16, 2003

• Should TV Be Airing bin Laden Tapes?; Are Media Helping to Scare People?; 'Boston Globe' Accuses Kerry of Lying About Health

January 26, 2003

• Are Media Minimizing Anti-War Movement by Booking Celebrities?; Why Is Press Not Reporting Ritter's Arrest?

January 19, 2003

• Is Press Making Big Deal Out of Lieberman's Religion?; A Look at Shake-Up at CNN

January 11, 2003

• Should Media Have Covered Raelians' Cloning Claims?

January 04, 2003

• Are Media Biased?

December 28, 2002

• Interview With Cokie Roberts

December 21, 2002

• Did Media Push Trent Lott Out?; Did Hostile Media Coverage Factor Into Gore's Decision Not to Run?

December 14, 2002

• Why Did Press Pass on Trent Lott Story?; 'New York Times' Criticized Over Augusta National Controversy

December 07, 2002

• Are Journalists Taking Balanced Approach on Iraq Story?; How Is Press Treating John Kerry?

November 30, 2002

• Interview With Rush Limbaugh

November 23, 2002

• Al Gore Launches Political Comeback; Is Ailes Too Close to White House?; Is Daschle Demonizing Limbaugh?

November 16, 2002

• Should 'Daily Mirror' Have Paid Burrell $500,000?; Are Media Stereotyping Pelosi as Left-Wing Extremist?

November 09, 2002

• A Look at Media's Coverage of Election Night 2002

November 02, 2002

• Interview With Jon Stewart; Are Reporters Not Tough Enough on Mondale?

October 26, 2002

• Did Media Help Catch Beltway Sniper?

October 19, 2002

• Is Press Covering Sniper Story Responsibly?

October 12, 2002

• Does Press Sacrifice Public Safety for Scoops?

October 05, 2002

• Did Press Help Push Torricelli Out of Senate Race?; Another Dumb Blonde Story Hits Airwaves

September 21, 2002

• Should 'Tribune' Columnist Bob Greene Have Resigned Over Affair?

September 14, 2002

• Has Media Went Overboard on Coverage of 9/11 Anniversary?

September 07, 2002

• Has 9-11 Changed News Business?

August 31, 2002

• Interview With Jim Lehrer

August 24, 2002

• Convervatives Blast "New York Times" on Iraq Coverage

August 17, 2002

• Media Makes "Wasteland" of Scientist's Life; Bush Economic Conference Disregarded as Political Fluff; What Happened to the War in Afghanistan?

August 10, 2002

• Is Media Exploiting Missing Children Cases?; Gore Suffers from Bad Image with Media

August 03, 2002

• Rumsfled Incensed at Military Leaks; Major Charges Dropped Against Allen Iverson

July 27, 2002

• Is the Media Blowing Coverage of Child Abductions out of Proportion?; Press Attacks Bush on Economy

July 20, 2002

• Does Media Herd Follow Direction of Market?

July 13, 2002

• Alleged Police Brutality incidents Recall Rodney King Coverage; Bush Image at Stake in Corporate Crisis

July 06, 2002

• McCain Wants Free Airtime For Candidates; Is Media Fair to Bush on Corporate Scandals?

June 29, 2002

• Corporate Stars Lose Lustre

June 23, 2002

• Why Does Elizabeth Smart Get So Much Media Attention?; Stephanopoulos Gets Talk Show

June 22, 2002

• Why Does Elizabeth Smart Get So Much Attention?; Former Clinton Aide Gets Sunday Morning Show

June 15, 2002

• Why Did Media Glorify Mafia?; Smart's Parents Say 'Salt Lake Tribune' Went Too Far; Interview With Sir David Frost

June 09, 2002

• White House Seizes Offensive in Coverage of War on Terror; What Is Missing From 'The Washington Post?'

June 08, 2002

• Homeland Security Anouncement Overshadows Whistle-blower Hearings

June 01, 2002

• Brokaw to Be Replaced by Brian Williams; Is the Press Overdoing Chandra Levy Investigation Story?

May 25, 2002

• Is Chandra Levy a Legitimate News Story?; Are Media Hyping Terrorist Warnings?

May 18, 2002

• Press Turns on Bush; Should CBS Have Aired Video of Pearl Killing?

May 11, 2002

• Is Press Pushing Peace in the Middle East?; Why Are So Many Media Outlets Covering Michael Skakel's Trial?

May 04, 2002

• Will Clinton Get a Daytime Talk Show?; David Brock Discusses `Blinded by the Right'

April 27, 2002

• Is Coverage of the President Fair, Balanced?

April 20, 2002

• Are the Media Providing Balanced Coverage of the Middle East?; Are the Media Giving Enough Air Time to Democrats?

April 13, 2002

• Interview With Mike Wallace; How Has Media Covered Crisis in the Middle East?

April 06, 2002

• Is Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Being Covered Objectively?

March 30, 2002

• A Look at Media's Coverage of Middle East

March 23, 2002

• Are Cable News Networks Changing the Way News Is Reported?; Is There Bias in the Media?

March 16, 2002

• David Letterman Decides to Stay on CBS

March 10, 2002

• Letterman/Koppel Slugfest Galvanized Media; Journalist Hurt in Afghanistan

March 09, 2002

• Panel Discusses ABC's Replacement of 'Nightline' With Letterman

March 02, 2002

• How Did Media Cover Enron?; Lewinsky, Condit Back in the News

February 24, 2002

• How Has Pearl's Murder Affected War Coverage?; How Have Controversies Impacted the Olympics?

February 23, 2002

• Are Reporters Targets of Terrorists?; Should Pentagon Run a Disinformation Campaign?; Should Press Have Access to Detainees in Cuba?

February 17, 2002

• Interview with Bernard Goldberg

February 16, 2002

• Why Did Media's Coverage of Pentagon Turn Negative This Week?; What Role Did Media Play in Olympic Skating Controversy?

February 10, 2002

• Have American Journalists Become cheerleaders?; Interview with Bob Woodward

February 03, 2002

• Fate of Daniel Pearl Remains Unclear; Positive Reviews for State of the Union; How has the Media Covered the Enron Collapse?

February 02, 2002

• What Happened to Daniel Pearl?; Was bin Laden's Tape Worth Airing?

January 26, 2002

• Has Media Reported on Enron Scandal Responsibly?; Was 'Talk' Magazine Victim of 9/11?; Battle of the 'West Wings'

January 20, 2002

• Are Media Handling the Enron Situation Responsibly?

January 19, 2002

• Coverage of Enron Scandal Examined

January 13, 2002

• Is Style Emphasized Over Substance in Cable News?; Are These Networks Becoming Political?

January 12, 2002

• What Did the Bush Administration Know About Enron's Collapse?; Should the War Still be Front-Page News?

January 06, 2002

• Did the Pentagon Lie to the Media?; How Will Bloomberg Interact With the New York Press?

January 05, 2002

• Panel of Journalists Discusses Bush's Economic Speeches

December 30, 2001

• Panelists Discuss Fading Political Coverage on War on Terrorism

December 29, 2001

• Has the Media Changed Since September 11?

December 22, 2001

• Interview With Robert Pelton; Panel Discusses War in Afghanistan; Retired Generals Choose TV Over Obscurity

December 16, 2001

• Is Osama bin Laden Still in Tora Bora?; Do British and Middle Eastern Journalists Cover the War Differently Than Americans?; Donald Rumsfeld Charms the Press Corps

December 15, 2001

• Was the Media's Reaction to Newest bin Laden Tape Too Emotional?

December 09, 2001

• Does the Media Cover War Responsibly?

December 08, 2001

• Media Scramble to Cover Increasingly Chaotic Situation in Afghanistan; Are TV Networks Tilting Toward the Left?

December 02, 2001

• Dangers of Reporting From the Front Lines; With Three Little Words the President puts the Press into Overdrive

November 24, 2001

• Deadly Month for Journalists in Afghanistan; Network Morning Shows Transformed by 9/11; The Importance of Interpreters

November 18, 2001

• A Critical Lens on the Media: Analysis of Media Coverage of the War in Afghanistan

November 17, 2001

• Did the Media Rush Into Judgment of American Prospects in the War in Afghanistan?; Was the Coverage of Bush-Putin Summit Skeptical Enough?

November 11, 2001

• Will Northern Alliance Victories Change Tone of War Coverage?; What Effect Will Media's 2000 Election Recount Have on America?

November 10, 2001

• Media Sighs at Bush's Thursday Address; Did the Press Pay Enough Attention to 2001 Elections?

November 04, 2001

• War on Terrorism: What are the challenges of covering the war from inside Afghanistan and inside the Pentagon?

November 03, 2001

• Is Media Coverage of the War Biased?; Is the Press Correct in Turning Negative on the War in Afghanistan?

October 28, 2001

• Is the Press Only Now Waking up and Covering News That Counts?; Is the Media Reporting on the Anthrax Scare Responsibly?

October 27, 2001

• Is the Defense Department Providing Enough Information to the Media About the War in Afghanistan? Has the Press Been Caught in a Spin Cycle Reporting on the Anthrax Scare?

October 22, 2001

• Is the Media Too Close to the Anthrax Story to be Objective?; How Much Should the Pentagon Disclose About Military Operations?

October 21, 2001

• Should the Press Report Sensitive Details While the U.S. is at War? Has the Media Reported Responsibly About Anthrax?

October 13, 2001

• Correspondents Discuss Coverage of War Overseas and at Home; Interview With Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Jazeera

October 06, 2001

• Are Journalists Jumping on the Bush Bandwagon?

September 29, 2001

• On the Brink of War: New Challenges for Reporters, News Organizations

September 08, 2001

• Playing the Beltway Blame Game With the Budget Crunch; Was `the Washington Post' Snooping on Maryland's Governor, or Really Reporting?

September 01, 2001

• Is the Media Desperate to Keep the Condit Story Alive?; Why Journalists are Ignoring New York's Race for Mayor

August 25, 2001

• Did Condit Use the Media in His Interviews?; `Variety''s Peter Bart Suspended After Allegations of Lying, Slurs

August 18, 2001

• An American Reporter Barely Misses Death in the Middle East; Is Television Too Superficial to Cover Stem Cell Research?

August 11, 2001

• Did `Talk' Magazine Go Too Far With Bush Twins Satire?; The Impact of the President's Decision on Stem Cells

August 04, 2001

• Do Journalist Prefer to Print Stories on Clinton, While Short- Changing Bush?; Chandra Levy Coverage: The Blunders Continue

July 28, 2001

• Ari Fleischer Discusses Press Coverage of Bush; Are Journalists Painting a Distorted Image of the President?

July 21, 2001

• The Legacy of Publishing Legend Katharine Graham; Has the Press Been Reduced to Sifting for Scraps in the Chandra Levy Case?

July 14, 2001

• Is the Press Feeding Off Details of Condit's Life?; Why do Some News Outlets Resist the Frenzy?; Are Journalists Being Snookered by Bush?

July 07, 2001

• Have the Media Declared Open Season on Gary Condit's Sex Life?

June 30, 2001

• Does David Brock Have Any Credibility Left?; Is John Stossel Challenging Environmentalists or Slanting News?

June 23, 2001

• Is the Media's Continued Fascination With the Levy Disappearance Warranted?; Was Karl Rove's Meeting With Intel a Conflict of Interest?

June 16, 2001

• Was Coverage of Bush's European Tour Predetermined?; Did Media Go Too Far on McVeigh's Execution Day?; Levy Disappearance Mystery Continues

June 09, 2001

• Did Media Inflate Story About Possibility of McCain Leaving GOP?; Is the Press Easier on Daschle Than Lott?

June 02, 2001

• Were Journalists Taken by White House Vandalism Story?; Should Media Back Off Bush Twins?; What is the Modern State of Journalism?

May 26, 2001

• Are Media Getting the Real Story Behind Jeffords' Defection?; Is the Chandra Levy Disappearance Being Sensationalized?

May 19, 2001

• Media Carries Unsubstantiated Story of Jeb Bush Affair; Is the Press Softer on George W. Than They Were on Clinton?

May 12, 2001

• Has Media Turned Events Leading to McVeigh Execution Into Entertainment?; `New Yorker' Editor Discusses Magazine's Popularity

May 05, 2001

• How Should Media Cover Cheney?; Is True Story of Most Powerful Vice President Being Lost?; Did `Reporter' Columnist Malign His Own Paper?

April 28, 2001

• Did Media Force Kerrey's Admission?; Grading the Press on Coverage of Bush's First 100 Days

April 15, 2001

• Media Coverage of 'The Poison President,' Royals and the Rags, and the U.S.-China Standoff

April 07, 2001

• Is the Media Over-hyping the U.S.-China Standoff?; Is "Brill's Content" Abandoning Its Media Watchdog Role?

March 31, 2001

• Should White House Media Access Be Based on Ideology?; Is the XFL Dying?

March 24, 2001

• Are the Media Campaigning for Campaign Finance Reform?; Network Executive Says TV Tunes Out Stories About Minorities

March 17, 2001

• Does the Media Overplay the Stock Market Slump?; Was Michael Jordan Comeback Speculation Just a Wild Shot?

March 10, 2001

• Is the Media Overplaying Cheney's Health Problems?; Can Cameras Pull Away From Clinton?

March 03, 2001

• Are Bush's Speeches Analyzed More Than His Proposals?; Is the Media Allied Against Bush's Tax Cut?; Can the President Get Attention Amidst Clinton Scandals?

February 24, 2001

• `National Enquirer' Gets Scoop on Presidential Pardons; Bernard Shaw Reflects on 20 Years at CNN

February 17, 2001

• Is Journalistic Credibility Sometimes Tainted by Hollywood?; Navy and Press at Odds Over Fatal Submarine Accident

February 10, 2001

• A Tale of Three Presidents: Reagan, Clinton, and Bush

February 03, 2001

• How Should the Media Handle Election Results? Did the Clintons Manipulate the Media While in the White House?

January 27, 2001

• George Bush Gets Good Reviews for His First Week; Should the Press be Grilling Baltimore Ravens Star Ray Lewis

January 21, 2001

• How Has the Press Covered the Changing of the Guard?; Breaking Jesse Jackson's Out-of-Wedlock Daughter Story

January 20, 2001

• What Challenges Will the New President Pose to the Media?

January 13, 2001

• Will George Bush Be as Thin-Skinned As His Predecessor? Did the Media Make too Much of Linda Chavez's Illegal Immigrant Houseguest?

January 06, 2001

• 'George' Folds; Is the Press Being Fair to the Bush Cabinet?

December 30, 2000

• Year in Review: Blowing the Presidential Election; Elian Obsession; Hounding of Wen Ho Lee; Coming Era of Big Media Mergers

December 23, 2000

• Mr. Bush Goes to Washington; Hillary Signs $8 Million Book Deal; Jack Germond Reflects on a Career in Journalism

December 17, 2000

• Is the President-Elect Ducking the Press?

December 16, 2000

• Confusion at the Supreme Court: Did the Media Blow the Big Moment?

December 10, 2000

• Election 2000: How Are the Media Keeping Pace With Story?

December 09, 2000

• How Are the Media Handling Election 2000's Eleventh-Hour Drama?

December 02, 2000

• Is the Press Giving the Election Drama too Much Play?

November 26, 2000

• Will the Media Play Along with Florida's Election Certification?

November 25, 2000

• Is the Press Making Sense of the Election Morass or Hyping the Melodrama?

November 21, 2000

• How Has the Press Covered the Changing of the Guard?; Breaking Jesse Jackson's Out-of-Wedlock Daughter Story

November 19, 2000

• American Media Tries to Keep up With Endless Election; American Public Looks for Political Patience; Was Election Day Coverage Anti- Bush?

November 18, 2000

• How is the Press Covering the Endless Florida Recount?

November 12, 2000

• Election 2000 Coverage Casts Media in a New and Often Unappealing Light

November 11, 2000

• Network Nightmare: How Did TV Blow the Florida Vote Twice?

November 05, 2000

• Media Continues to Feast on Bush's 24-Year-Old DUI Arrest; Who's to Blame if Gore Loses?; Have Journalists Lost Sight of the Issues?

November 04, 2000

• Are the Media Going Overboard on George Bush's 24-year-old DUI?

October 28, 2000

• Are the Networks Raking in the Bucks While Stiffing the Candidates?

October 21, 2000

• New York Media Goes Nuts for Subway Series; Are the Pundits Picking the Real Winners in the Presidential Debates?

October 14, 2000

• Is the Media Doing a Good Job Covering Violence in the Middle East?

October 07, 2000

• How Are the Media Handling the Presidential Debates?

September 30, 2000

• Media Prepares for the Great Debate; 'New York Times' Admits it Went too Far on Wen Ho Lee

September 23, 2000

• Is the Press Tilting Toward Al Gore?; Did the Media go Overboard on Wen Ho Lee?

September 16, 2000

• Are the Financial Media Taking Viewers on a Wild Market Ride?

September 09, 2000

• Adam Clymer Discusses Bush's Vulgarity Heard 'Round the World

September 02, 2000

• Campaign 2000 Hits the Airwaves; Is There a Shrinking Audience For Cable News?

August 26, 2000

• Is the Press Kissing up to the Vice President?

August 19, 2000

• Did the Media Offer Fair Coverage of Gore's Acceptance Speech?

August 13, 2000

• Will Gore's Convention be Overshadowed by Hollywood Hoopla?

August 12, 2000

• Democrats Hit Hollywood

August 05, 2000

• Did the Press Become Part of George W. Bush's Script?

July 30, 2000

• Is the Media Coverage of John McCain and Dick Cheney Fair?

July 29, 2000

• Media Microscope Scrutinizes Cheney; Will the Republican Convention Provide any Real News?

July 22, 2000

• Veepstakes Reaches Fever Pitch; Former Clinton Aide Charges Hillary with Slur; Did the 'Boston Globe' Overreact in Latest Suspension?

July 15, 2000

• Medical Reporting Gets Negative Diagnosis; Are the Media Fairly Depicting the Philadelphia Police Beating?

July 08, 2000

• Chicago Newscast Throws Out the Gimmicks; Has CBS News Become a 'Survivor' Promotion Machine?

July 01, 2000

• Television and Elian: The Long Goodbye; Are the Media Crusading Against Capital Punishment?

June 24, 2000

• Are the Media Excluding Third Party Presidential Contenders?

June 17, 2000

• Viewers Abandon Network News for the Internet; Are the Media Going Overboard in Hyping the Veepstakes?

June 10, 2000

• Are Journalists Playing Softball with Offensive Athletes and Coaches?

June 03, 2000

• Korean War Story Under Hostile Fire; Are the Media Giving Rick Lazio an Easy Ride?

May 27, 2000

• Clinton's Proposed Disbarment and Giuliani's Extramarital Affair Leave Journalists Dealing with Aftershocks of Impeachment

May 20, 2000

• Hot New Web Site Goes Inside the Media; Helen Thomas Bows out After 57 Years; Should "The Philadelphia Inquirer" Have Kept an Off- the-Record Secret?

May 13, 2000

• McCain is Still a Media Magnet; Joe Klein Talks About New Book; Did Press Invade Mayor Giuliani's Private Life?

May 06, 2000

• Joe Lockhart Discusses Bill Clinton's Press Coverage

April 29, 2000

• Elian Continues to Captivate the Press; Vietnam Still Haunts Journalists After 25 Years

April 23, 2000

• Elian Gonzalez Case: Has the Media Coverage Been Fair or Inflammatory?

April 22, 2000

• Was Coverage of the INS Raid Fair or Inflammatory?

April 15, 2000

• White House Scandals Make a Comeback; Has the Press Lost All Restraint on the Cuban Custody Case?

April 08, 2000

• Jon Stewart Zings the Fourth Estate; ABC News' Latest Superstar Lands "Titanic" Interview; Has the Press Inflamed a Young Boy's Tragedy?

April 01, 2000

• Gossip Columnists Move into the Mainstream; Should ABC Have Interviewed Elian Gonzalez?

March 25, 2000

• The Real Al Gore and George Bush: Is the Press Getting the Full Story or Falling for the Image?

March 18, 2000

• 'Tribune' Buys 'L.A. Times'; Journalists Predict Candidates Will Emphasize the Negative in Campaign 2000

March 11, 2000

• Ted Koppel Talks About Two Decades of 'Nightline'; How Do Journalists Cover Bush and Gore From Here?

March 04, 2000

• Are Journalists Clueless About Christian Conservatives?

February 26, 2000

• Internet Changes Rules of Political Journalism; Pundits too Quick to Abandon Underdogs; Has the Press Written off Bill Bradley?

February 20, 2000

• Will the Media Turn Its Back on John McCain?

February 19, 2000

• Bush and McCain Square Off in South Carolina; Did 'The Body' and 'The Donald' Take the Press for a Ride?

February 12, 2000

• Has the Press Fallen in Love With John McCain?

February 05, 2000

• Salon Stalks Gary Bauer as Journalism Hits New Low; Did the Press Help McCain Whip George W. Bush?

January 29, 2000

• Is the Press Covering the Primary Or Twisting it Out of Shape?

January 22, 2000

• Relationship Between Hillary Clinton and New York Media Goes Sour; How Does Media Factor in on Campaign Trail?

January 15, 2000

• Will the AOL-Time Warner Merger Compromise Its News Organizations?

January 08, 2000

• Did the Press Succumb to Y2K Fever? Were the Media Taken for a Ride on the Re-Launching of Monica Lewinsky?

January 01, 2000

• Millennium 2000: 100 Years of Journalism

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