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July/August 1993
   Features
The Buyout Boom
Buyouts save money for newspapers and give journalists a chance to write novels, travel or change careers. But they can have a demoralizing effect on a newsroom.   > read more
By  Elizabeth Chang
Where Death Isn't Cheap...Just Plentiful
Fresh out of J-school, Cheever Griffin took a job chasing stories on the gritty streets of Chicago. He wasn't quite prepared for what he found.   > read more
By  Cheever Griffin
Taking It to the Streets
What are the limits of activism for journalists?   > read more
By  Kim I. Mills
Slow Down at Gender Gap
Newspapers are scrambling to find new ways to attract women readers.   > read more
By  Karen Schmidt  Colleen Collins
Did the Networks Sanitize the Gay Rights March?   > read more
By  Alicia C. Shepard
The Standup Syndrome
When television reporters go on camera, they often leave attribution and objectivity behind.   > read more
By  Steve Taylor
   Columns
A Summer Respite From Daffiness?
It's hard to remember worse press performance in Washington.   > read more
By  Reese Cleghorn
The News Media Won't Miss Byron White
The retiring justice was no champion of the First Amendment.   > read more
By  Lyle Denniston
Good News From the Supreme Court
Newspapers win fight over taxes and circulation lists.   > read more
By  John Morton
Big Shift In Cable Lineup Ahead
New law may make it more expensive to get news programming.   > read more
By  Lou Prato
   Drop Cap
Secret Operation   > read more
By  John G. Leyden
Getting Exposure on Scripps Howard Wire   > read more
By  Penny Pagano
A Tale of Plagiarism in Old Nantucket   > read more
By  Viki Reath
   Books
How U.S. Newspapers Are Like Pravda Used to Be
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
By Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
Pantheon   > read more
Book review by  Jim Anderson
The Powerful Reality of Images
Picture Perfect: The Art and Artifice of Public Image Making
By Kiku Adatto
BasicBooks   > read more
Book review by  Carl Sessions Stepp
   The Beat
A New Man on A New "Street"   > read more
By  Chip Rowe
Bylines   > read more
By  Chip Rowe
   Cliché Corner
Cliché corner   > read more
By  Chip Rowe
   Letters
Letters   > read more