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| Introduction | |
| Can the Press Cover the Old Boys Club That Owns It? | p. 2 |
| The Real Media Elite | p. 5 |
| The Washington Post: Too Close to Power | p. 8 |
| Term Limits for Political Pundits | p. 13 |
| Great Moments in Pundit History | p. 17 |
| TV's Political Spectrum: The Best That Money Can Buy | p. 21 |
| "Geezer-Bashing" and Other Budget Bias | p. 28 |
| Specter of Class Warfare Haunts Media | p. 32 |
| The Takeover of the Democratic Party | p. 36 |
| The Privatization of Public TV | p. 41 |
| "Pro-Corporate Tilt" Polluting Media | p. 45 |
| Journalism Lost in Smoke | p. 50 |
| The Tobacco Industry's Smoke Screen | p. 53 |
| AIDS Coverage: Lives in the Balance | p. 56 |
| A "Super Sunday" for Domestic Violence | p. 59 |
| Backlash: Some Journalists Still Discount Women | p. 62 |
| Nuclear Testing: The Media Non-Story | p. 67 |
| Now It Can Be Told... Years Too Late | p. 72 |
| Journalism: What Went Wrong? | p. 75 |
| Delayed Response: The Story of Brett Kimberlin | p. 79 |
| A Prisoner and the Play-It-Safe Press | p. 84 |
| Media Hypocrisy on Political Correctness | p. 89 |
| Is Anti-Arab Bigotry Acceptable to News Media? | p. 92 |
| CBS Sees No Problem with Anti-Arab Attitudes | p. 96 |
| It Took an Explosion to Wake Up News Media | p. 99 |
| Institutional Racism in Media: The Verdict Is In | p. 103 |
| Gay Rights and News "Balance" | p. 106 |
| What Voters Don't Know May Hurt Them | p. 113 |
| Local TV News Ethic: "If It Bleeds, It Leads" | p. 117 |
| TV's Harvest of Shame | p. 121 |
| "We Aren't Biased Against the Mad, Bomb-Throwing, Yuppie Monk" | p. 126 |
| The Convention's Coming: It's Jackson-Bashing Season | p. 129 |
| Republicans Work the Media Refs | p. 133 |
| What Makes Big News? - A Tale of Two Stories | p. 139 |
| Debates: Beware of Unidentified Flying Buzzwords | p. 142 |
| Media Blind Spots on the Campaign Trail | p. 147 |
| Pat Robertson's Born-Again UPI? | p. 152 |
| The World According to Pat Robertson | p. 155 |
| H. Ross Perot: The Ultimate Insider | p. 159 |
| Is Perot a "Watergate Waiting to Happen"? | p. 164 |
| A True Outsider for President | p. 167 |
| Pat Buchanan: TV Pundit Wants to Be President | p. 171 |
| War Crimes and the U.S. Media: The Case of El Salvador | p. 177 |
| Best Liar in a Supporting Role | p. 182 |
| When Dying Children Aren't Newsworthy | p. 186 |
| Somalia: The Unasked Questions | p. 189 |
| A Tale of Two Terrorists: Theirs Versus Ours | p. 193 |
| Skewed Coverage of the Middle East | p. 197 |
| Bogus History Muddies Abortion Debate | p. 202 |
| The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV | p. 206 |
| Malcolm X and Spike Lee Versus the News Media | p. 210 |
| The Failed Plot to Kill "JFK" | p. 214 |
| P.U.-litzer Prizes for Foulest Media Performances | p. 220 |
| Bill Clinton, Meet the Washington Times | p. 227 |
| National Public Radio: Serving the Public? | p. 231 |
| Wanted: Full-Disclosure Book Reviews | p. 234 |
| Quayle's Memoirs: Book Industry Prepares Another Gem | p. 237 |
| Bird-Brained Politicians Play God | p. 240 |
| Some Advice for Reading Between the Lines | p. 244 |
| Index | p. 248 |
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