Is hiccuping for 3 years news? | Gore: Journalists are highly skilled but TV is a menace to democracy
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His complaint: 'News divisions have fewer reporters, fewer stories, smaller budgets, less travel, fewer bureaus, less independent judgment, more vulnerability to influence by management, and more dependence on government sources and canned public relations hand-outs.'

Profits up, jobs down | 'Comfortable media companies losing sight of their mission'
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Michael Bugeja of Iowa State questions internships without pay, convergence, and the proper place for reporters’ posteriors.

Middle class as victims | Press seen as failing to deal with economic abuses
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Martin Lobel of 'Tax Analysts' rebukes he-said-she-said reporting; lists areas needing improvement and heads a group that tries to provide help and direction for the news media

A long-running law suit | Official defends Interior’s record on Indian Trust issues
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Special Trustee Ross Swimmer responds to an item on this Web site that was highly critical of the Interior Department.

Oversight? What oversight? | A critique of the press by a veteran reporter COMMENTARY In a talk, Morton Mintz describes what he calls six 'deep-seated, fundamental, and persisting press failings that have enormous impact on our people and our country.'

'Us' and 'them' | Columnist, Nieman fellow Mary Curtis on coverage of the aftermath of Katrina
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For today’s reporters, understanding they don’t know much about poor people is the starting point. Will they stay with the story long enough to get up to speed?

Fraud? What fraud? | Needed: A better memory in coverage of the Indian Trust Program
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A former Washington Post reporter who used to write about Indian affairs, now an activist, says the press has no institutional memory and is letting the Department of Interior off the hook in a law suit that is now almost ten years old.

Lobbyists spent $2.1 billion in 2004 | Corporate welfare: Talking less government but reaping enormous profits
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Morton Mintz asks, if conservatives want government to leave them alone, then why are they investing in, and getting, such enormous windfalls from Washington?

Almost 30 years of hype | Why Deep Throat was an unimportant source and other reflections on Watergate COMMENTARY Barry Sussman writes: “The reason Deep Throat remained anonymous, so that even Washington Post editors didn’t know who he was, is that his contribution was unimportant.”

A growing, ominous class disparity | Economic inequality in the U.S. is reaching Third World levels. Where’s the press?
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Things that happen in small increments go almost wholly unnoticed, to the country’s peril, writes Henry M. Banta. Thus, one of the largest redistributions of wealth in history – right here in the U.S. – has gone basically unreported, or, at the very least, underreported.

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