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December/January 2004 issue
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News Blackout
The FCC was
getting ready to
loosen the rules
limiting media
concentration.
A grassroots
movement had
sprung up to
derail the plan.
But you wouldn’t
have learned
much about the
controversy from
many news outlets owned by the big
conglomerates
that were eager
to cash in.
> read more
By Charles Layton
The Women
A behind-the-scenes, step-by-step
look at how the Los Angeles Times
put together its controversial, last-
minute story about allegations
that Arnold Schwarzenegger had
groped women without
their consent.
> read more
By Rachel Smolkin
Star Power
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s celebrity status attracted massive media
attention to California’s recall
election, and not just in the Golden State. It also enabled the actor
to cruise to victory while largely ignoring political reporters.
> read more
By Rachel Smolkin
The British Invasion
Many Americans searching for a different view of the war in Iraq turned to the British Broadcasting Corp. Does the BBC offer a more aggressive and complete approach to the
news, or a tilt
to the left—
or both?
> read more
By Lori Robertson
The Next Level
For years
Dean Singleton
and quality
journalism were rarely used in
the same sentence. But now Singleton is talking the talk about his flagship Denver Post. Will
he spring for the resources to allow his ambitious
editor to make the paper one of the
nation’s elite?
> read more
By Jill Rosen
Why Do People Read Newspapers?
A massive research effort
by the NAA- and ASNE-backed
Readership Institute endeavored
to find out. Now newspapers
are heeding some of
the findings in an effort to
reverse the persistent
circulation slide.
> read more
By Carl Sessions Stepp
Resurfacing in Scranton
Larry Beaupre
was a
big-time
editor until
he took
the fall
for the
Cincinnati Enquirer’s
ill-fated
Chiquita series. Five years later, he’s trying to breathe life into two newspapers with a combined
circulation
of 61,000 in a struggling
former coal
town in
Pennsylvania.
> read more
By Randy Diamond
Ambushed by the Press
A feel-good
photo-op for
a recovering burn
victim turns into
a vulture-like
media attack.
> read more
By Francene Cucinello
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