From Salon, journalism and its discontents: Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero. A review of Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War by Howard Kurtz. A review of Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco. When one of California's most prominent journalists was shot dead on the streets of Oakland, it shocked the community. But when it later emerged Chauncey Bailey had been murdered for investigating a local group of black activists, it stunned the nation. A review of The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak. William Powers on the Art of Drudge: The Drudge Report is alive to the world in all its glory, horror, and absurdity, at a time when newspapers feel paralyzed and inert. From The New York Observer, fame and obscurity at The New York Times: The brand is you! The new new new Journalism thrives on the new anxiety in journalism—avoiding redundancy. Paying for news: Print newspapers are dying as readers stray to the internet. But is online journalism really ready to take over? Why you didn't pay to read this: Should newspaper Web sites really be free?
