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ABC's copy and paste To all appearances, many of ABC's most popular celebrities got together to be photographed for a group portrait. But the closer you look at the resulting "photograph,the odder it seems to be. Nov. 13, 2001

Vote.com Removes an Exploitive Image After a critical column in Reform and an anthrax scare, Vote.com removes an image that tried to increase people's sense of danger. Nov. 13, 2001

Victory and Disaster Success in Afghanistan and another crash in America. November 13, 2001

Hawks Versus Strategists Critics are divided over the best policy for fighting terrorism and the Taliban. November 6, 2001 

LiP Magazine responds to "Blaming America" and other email. Oct. 17, 2001

Blaming America Sontag, McChesney and the rage of the Left. Oct. 15, 2001 

* Why America Failed to Protect Itself A dysfunctional news media and government was unwilling to compromise its own self-interest long enough to take cognizance of a threat to the United States. Oct.4, 2001 

Vote.com Hits a New Low An inappropriate image on Vote.com tries to exploit people's fears. Sept. 27, 2001

Salon looks at "Journalism in a time of crisis"

America's Holocaust We need to recognize why this attack was allowed to take place if we want to stop the next one. September 12, 2001

* CNN's Reduced Window on the World AOL Time Warner seems to want to model TV news after a cross between a web page and a music video. August 15, 2001.

FrontPage's Archie Bunker Politics FrontPage Magazine has hit another low with a column calling on a journalist and a state rep. to leave the country because they won't recite the Pledge of Allegiance. July 12, 2001. For responses to the column, see Lucianne.com (these are no longer available) and FrontPage. Also here on FrontPage.

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Note from Ken Sanes: Readers can find an overview of the way fabricated columns in Slate magazine were exposed (and the role this site played in exposing them) by reading this column by James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal. Here are some other items from the Journal's online presence, OpinionJournal.com, that refer to the controversy.

Below are three columns about the Slate fabrications, in chronological order.

A Hoax From Slate? Three columns in Slate magazine that carry the byline Jay Forman. Are they all true? June 10/11, 2001

A Response to Michael Kinsley Slate claims three challenged columns are okay. But is Slate okay? June 14, 2001

Defending the Indefensible Michael Kinsley & Andrew Sullivan go after Kinsley's critics. July 3, 2001

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* Seeing Isn't Believing: A Study on Boys and Guns Raises Questions About Research Tactics and Motives June 12, 2001

* The LA Times Wants You -- On Secret Video The Los Angeles Times web site is a perfect example of the danger that an ethically-challenged humanity will misuse the new powers bequeathed by technology. May 15, 2001

 

OFF SITE

Truth in the packaging of war news Richard Reeves

Is Al-Jazeera helping Osama bin Laden—or just defending freedom of speech? MSNBC

Sontag responds to her critics: an excerpt only for nonsubscribers,  in Salon

Politics by Polls Led Us Astray
Arianna Huffington

The Responsive Environment: Toyota, Sony Develop Mood-Sharing Tail-Wagging Car Reuters 

N. Carolina Firm to Sell Home Anthrax Test Kits  Reuters

Patriotic Symbols: We need a new anthem Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe

Chicken Little Media Michael Kelly WP

O brother, where art thou? The Spectator

A different kind of TV war  The Guardian

A terrifying contradiction WT

We Can't Win If We're Not Heard WP

Wonders Of a New World Broder/WP

Hinges of Opportunity WP

Poetry Among the Ruins  LA Weekly

Wanted: A loyal opposition Boston Phoenix

Operation Enduring Dissent  LA Weekly

Media's voices of dissent may no longer be welcome Dallas Morning News

 

 

Reform is written by Ken Sanes