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March 1995
   Features
Gotcha!
"Prime-Time Live" popularized the use of hidden cameras and local stations rely on them for dramatic, high-impact footage. Their prevalence has provoked debate over how and whether they should be used – and lawsuits.   > read more
By  Robert Lissit
When the Watchdogs Don't Bark
The story of Orange County's imminent financial debacle was handed to the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times. But the rivals in one of the nation's most bitter newspaper wars blew it.   > read more
By  Susan Paterno
Best in the Business   > read more
By  Penny Pagano
Ben Bradlee (interview)
The best-known newspaper editor of his era, retired and writing his "memoirs," talks about his book, the state of the newspaper business, Janet Cooke, Watergate, Jack Kennedy, journalists as pundits, why he won't drive on the Infobahn – and life in the slow lane.   > read more
By  Alicia C. Shepard
On the Beat
Computer-assisted reproting isn't just for projects anymore.   > read more
By  Neil H. Reisner
   Columns
Scenes From A Porch in Washington
A winter storm ends, and orioles pop into a dogwood here high on a hill.   > read more
By  Reese Cleghorn
Dinosaurs Who Refuse to Die
Despite predictions of their demise, television networks are thriving.   > read more
By  Douglas Gomery
This Slogan Isn't Necessarily For You
The First Amendment rights of parodies don't always outweigh trademark protection.   > read more
By  Lyle Denniston
A Shadow Over the Newspaper Business
Newsprint prices, long depressed, are rapidly rising. Newspaper owners are running scared.   > read more
By  John Morton
   Drop Cap
It's a Jungle Out There in Cyberspace   > read more
By  Suzan Revah
Shooting Blanks   > read more
By  Kelly Heyboer
Bad-mouthing Bananas   > read more
By  Nicols Fox
Sacre Bleu! Le Monde Gets a Facelift   > read more
By  Sarah Chayes
No Second Acts, Perhaps, but Many Encores   > read more
By  Earle Palmer Brown
   Books
A Spirited Feminist Defense of Pornography
Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
By Nadine Strossen
Scribner   > read more
Book review by  Carl Sessions Stepp
The 'Net Without the Attitude
The Online Journalist: Using the
Internet and Other Electronic
Resources
By Randy Reddick and Elliot King
Harcourt Brace College Publishers   > read more
Book review by  Christopher Callahan
   The Beat
New Job for a Newbie   > read more
By  Stephen Sobek
Bylines   > read more
By  Suzan Revah
   Cliché Corner
Cliché corner   > read more
By  Suzan Revah