September/October 1992

Features

The Power And the Story
How the Washington News Machine Works

Is the Press Any Match for Powerhouse P.R.?
Check out the new and improved devices the big Washington firms have come up with for controlling the agenda
by Alicia Mundy

How to Build Support for War
by Arthur E. Rowse

The Columbia Connection
by Ana Arana

How They Watch Washington
Newspapers are revamping the way their bureaus cove the inside-the-beltway beat
by Dom Bonafede
The Washington News Bureaus

The Insider
NBC's Tim Russert
by Judy Flande

The News for God's Sake
An account of the conflict between a church's mission and a journalist's job
by John Hart

Campaign Coverage
A Walk in the Garden
by Christopher Lydon

Chronicle

• Parent-dumping: anatomy of a trend that wasn't
• The Times weighs in on salt
• Libel insurance: authors, fasten your seatbelts
• Prague: "I have a document here..."
• Nespapers, pollution, and the EPA
• Who owns stories in the electronic afterlife?
• Sarajevo: Natasha's story

On the Job
The Religion Thing:

• The Candidates
  by David Baird
• The Clergy
  by Paul Wilkes

Opinion
We All Work, Don't We?
by Phil Primack

Books
The man who Would be President: Dan Quayle
by Bob Woodward and David Broder
reviewed by William Boot

The Campaign of the Century:
Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California
and the Birth of Media Politics
by Greg Mitchell
reviewed by Curt Gentry

Letters
Darts and Laurels

Short Takes

• Second Front: Censorship and Propagands in the Gulf War
• The Lost World of the Craft Printer
• Begin to Exit Here: A Novel of the Wayward Press

The Lower Case