Every four years, when summer begins, the national media curtain rises on
an overheated stage of presidential politics. Like drama critics clutching
their programs, thousands of journalists are keenly alert to the feverish
orchestration...
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31 May 2000
Personal note to George W. Bush: Wasn't that a great graduation ceremony
last Thursday night? I know you are terribly proud of your daughters,
Barbara and Jenna.
You probably remember Kristy Reyna -- she was the only one of the 400...
30 May 2000
Someone made the odd, maybe malicious, certainly rash decision to put Tom
Wolfe on the right-hand side of the cover of Harper's new 150th anniversary
issue, facing Mark Twain, a leonine, earthy, dignified old devil, sitting in
alert...
28 May 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- We are having one of those brief but glorious moments when
our attention is focused on foreign affairs, so let's hare right after the
sucker.
Much in the news is the charmingly misleading headline that says, "Bush...
26 May 2000
Here we are, on the edge of yet another one, but I don't particularly care
for summer myself. At least as compared with spring and fall. My clock
started ticking when the Germans were trying to figure out a cross-channel
invasion schedule...
25 May 2000
One phrase -- "security zone" -- sums up an entire era of media spin about
Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
When Israel completed its pullout in late May, most U.S. news outlets remained in sync with the kind of...
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