Books

The Big Picture

The Sound Bite Society

Essays & Articles

Media Criticism

Commentary & Reviews

Reference

Nine Lives: Favorite Short Pieces

In Progress

Articles, Essays & Web Posts

• Journalism and New Media – Vineyard Gazette,  July 31, 2009.
• A Citizens’ Bill of Rights for Better News Media – The Huffington Post, 2007.
• Media, Democracy and the Left – Dissent, Fall 2007.
• Journalism and Academia: How They Can Work Together (excerpt from The Big Picture) – Nieman Reports, Fall 2007.
• Against the Commercial Impulse – Nieman Reports, Summer 2000.

Forewords

• Finnegan, L.      No Questions Asked.
• Hallock, S.          Editorial and Opinion.
• Hayes, A.             The Fifth Estate.
• Willis, J.               The Media Effect.

Reviews

• Lakoff, G.         Don’t Think of an Elephant!    (Dissent, Fall 2005)
• Boylan, J.         Pulitzer’s School. (Neiman Reports, Spring 2004)
• Starr, P.            The Creation of the Media. (Dissent, Summer 2004).
• Gitlin, T.          Media Unlimited. (Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2002).

“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.”

A.J. Liebling