Talking to Himself: The oral historian Studs Terkel now tells his life’s story. Scott McLemee listens to a puzzling silence in the tale. What a fearless journalist looks like: An interview with Studs Terkel. Be a better journalist by unlearning what you know: Three misconceptions about the news audience are leading journalists toward producing vapid reports. A junk-free journal: The London Review of Books is a bulwark against the sloppy journalism used to discredit it. The New York Times Op-Ed page hasn’t been this hot in a long time. Now we are experiencing Columnist Wars, largely over an incident involving Ronald Reagan at a local fair over 27 years ago. The Daily Show: Save newspapers by letting them own local TV stations. In a lawsuit, Judith Regan says that a News Corporation executive encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair with Bernard B. Kerik (and more). Full Court Press: Radar's media critic Charles Kaiser on George W. Bush and Pakistan. An article on Tsuneo Watanabe, Japan's media don, and the most powerful publisher you’ve never heard of.
