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JOURNALISM C 0 L U M 5 i & JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1999 $4.50/CANADA $5.50 o> Sea Heroes g‘ Bums, Flaps & Flops, Peaks & Pits of Journalism in the last 100 years by HAROLD EVANS 7 tele dea 5-“ pitt 48103 R500 ROOhS S= ORNW= 238 aOa——M MO=O MNLeOa w PWUXPP>—Oz 4 WZA>HX WOOn GEnE : n=w ee NO.C8 NNosIAVSCGi OTN AD)(CosI) GLAMOUR UA a ye BON APPETITZ CONDE NAST JeC oltiocTyeer Sim Neos i ConpéNET fj | ED ue iz NEW YORKER | They demand the er They are confi- allow you to enter into a deep and en- Pam Lica Umeda Rae And during relationship with a discerning they always refuse compromise. We could audience. Readers who seek quality and as easily be talking about our editors, have the means as well as the inclination to writers and photographers as we could our buy what it is you have to offer. By consult- readers. 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Condé Nast publications CONDE NAST JCOOLUUMBRIA NALISM — contents ANUARY/FEBRUARY 1999 REVIEW UPFRONT FLIGHT 800 What Fuels the Conspiracy Tales? by Peg Tyre LANGUAGE CORNER We Reach a Milestone by Evan Jenkins ONLINE JOURNALISM After the Hack at The New York Times by Arik Hesseldahl FIRST PERSON Tough School, Free Press by Leslie Seifert TALKING SHOP The Digital Watercooler A News Timeline, page 27 Gets Hot by John Annese Features COVER STORY/THE CENTURY What a Century! 21 VentureStar, page 17 Here comes the millennium, right on schedule, along with, for journalists, an opportunity to assess at least its last 100 FINAL FRONTIER 17 years — the tragic and triumphant period in which our Space Coverage: Second Stage profession came of age. What lessons can the twentieth by Frank Houston century teach the twenty-first? § by Harold Evans 00Ps! DEPARTMENTS 100 Years of Fakes and Mistakes 38 INDEX People and organizations How Dewey beat Truman and the Titanic stayed afloat. mentioned in this issue Read all about it! by John Leo PUBLISHER’S NOTE CIR Poll: The Perils of Punditry —, neutticney 42 LETTERS DARTS & LAURELS THE LOWER CASE NEWSPAPERS The Worst Newspaper in America 46 The local daily is fat. Citizens are starved for news. by Bruce Selcraig Miami: “Extremely Local” 53 ‘alter Cronkite, WilliamF . Buckley, Jr alt, Alaska Newsboy, John Hersey, Harold Ross The Herald gets a new publisher and a new strategy. by David Villano Jes, The New Yorker, Bob Woodward and SEE PAGE 44 FOR CREDITS & JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1999 COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW “TO ASSESS THE PERFORMANCE OF JOURNALISM . . . TO HELP STIMULATE CJR WORLD CONTINUING IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROFESSION, AND TO SPEAK OUT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, FAIR, AND DECENT” Malaysia A Small Magazine From the founding editorial, 1961 Defies a Despot by Peter Eng Canada Magazine Trade Wars by Nicholas Stein Eastern Europe Freedom of Information Fighters by Jeremy Druker BOOKS Reporting Live by Lesley Stahl Reviewed by Stanley Cloud Tough Talk: How I Fought for the Writers, Comics, Bigots, and the American Way Immigrants, page 60 by Martin Garbus Reviewed by Ellen Alderman Do you think there is a value to news organizations having their reporters BOOK REPORTS and editors appear as commentators ' and pundits or not? All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer Ted Poston: Pioneer American Journalist by Kathleen Hauke Making the News: A Guide for Nonprofits and Activists Los Angeles: Willes’s Report Card by Jason Salzman The Times’s aggressive publisher draws middling one-year marks. Life the Movie: How Entertainment by Rita Beamish Conquered Reality WSEPBOS ITTLE IGHT by Neil Gabler Slate vs. Salon Television News and the Supreme Court: Garbus, page 83 All the News That’s Fit to Air? Slate’s Michael Kinsley and Salon’s by Elliot E. Slotnick and David Talbot have built Web magazines Jennifer E. Segal that are defining the medium. Yet their a Reviewed by James Boylan evolving editorial visions are miles apart. _ Talbot, Kinsley, page 56 EXCERPTS by Nicholas Stein ISSUES Florence Harding: Going Nativist 60 The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America’s Most Scandalous President The immigration story is huge and, sometimes, badly handled. Too by Carl Sferrazza Anthony many stories “explain” nativist arguments but fail to do the basic Salant, CBS, and the Battle reporting that would complicate and contradict those arguments. for the Soul of Broadcast by Joel Millman Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant SPECIAL REPORT edited by Susan and Local TV: What Works, What Flops, and Why 65 Bill Buzenberg Trizge A comprehensive study evaluating the quality of sixty-one stations in by Scott Anderson twenty markets by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Mrs. Warren Harding, by Tom Rosenstiel, Carl Gottlieb, and Lee Ann Brady page 87 CIR Index People — and (in bold) organizations, publications, and broadcasts — in this issue are listed along with the first page of the article in which each is mentioned. 20/20 26 Cave, Ray 43 Forbes 14, 48 Johnson, John McGuigan, Patrick 60 Minutes 31, 81 CBS Evening News 25, 87 Fortune Johnson, Lyndon McHale, Alex ABC Weekend News 10, 12 CBS 29, 45, 82 Foster, Vince Johnson, Norma Holloway McKinley, William ABC World News Tonight 25 Chavez, Cesar 83 Fought, Barbara-Croll Johnson, Tom McLaughlin Group Accuracy in Media 13 Chicago Daily News 34 Fox Journal (N.Y.) Meese, Ed Adams, Eddie 35 Chicago Sun-Times 35 Frey, William Journal Times (Wis.) Meinel, Carolyn Agence France-Presse 10 Christian Science Friendly, Fred Just, Ward Meislin, Richard Aiken, Charolette 48 Monitor 32 Gabler, Neal Kalb, Marvin Mencken, H.L. Akron Beacon Journal 34 Chung, Connie Garbus, Martin Kaltenborn, H.V. Merrill Lynch Aliran Monthly (Malaysia) 19 CIA 16, Garrison, William Lloyd Kansas City Kansan Merz, Charles Allan, Heather 43 Clifton, Douglas Gay, Doug Keating, Frank Miami Herald 43, 53, Alter, Jonathan 45 Clinton, Bill Gaylord, Edward King Kelley, Ed Microsoft 26, 5 Altschull,J . Herbert 9 CNN 13, 25, 40, 56 Gaylord, Edward Lewis Kelly, Michael Middle College High American Mercury 30 Cohen, Richard 36 Gelhorn, Martha King, Rodney School News American Newspaper Cohen, Stanley 83 Glass, Stephen Kinsley, Michael Millsaps, Bill Publishers’ Assoc. 33 Collier’s Weekly 30 Glenn, John KITV-TV(Hawaii) Milwaukee Journal Amsterdam News (N.Y.) 5 Consumer Reports 25 GlobalStar Knight Ridder 53, 6 Mink, Ken Anderson, Scott 87 Cooke, Janet 40 Globe-Democrat Knight, John Shively Miramax Annenberg, Walter 30 Cosmopolitan 30 Goebel, William Knoxville News-Sentinel Mitchell, Thomas Anthony, Carl Sferrazza 87 Cox Newspapers 26 Goelz, Peter Koppel, Ted Mitnick, Kevin AntiOnline 14 Crichton, Judy 33 Goldman Sachs Kotz, Nick Mlada fronta Dnes Arizona Republic 63 Cronkite, Walter 37, 87 Goldman, Abigail Kovach, Bill (Czech Republic) Armstrong, William 47 Crossfire 56 Goldstein, Alvin KTOK-AM (Okla.) Mohamad, Mahathir Arnett, Elsa 62 Crouch, Stanley 36 Goodale, James Kuralt, Charles Mohr, Charles Arnett, Peter 32 C-Span 32, 44 Gopnik, Adam La Follette, Robert Moorer, Thomas Associated Press 28 Cunningham, Cecilia 15 Gorton, Eric La Fuente (Tex.) Morin, Richard Atkey, Ron 21 Cunningham, Lynn 20 Graham, Donald La Opinion (Cal.) Morton Research, Inc. Atlanta News 30 Czech Sydicate of Griffith, Victoria Ladies’ Home Journal Motorola 14, Bagdikian, Ben 31 Journalists 22 Guilford, Howard Lail, Jack Mowrer, Edgar Ansel Bangkok Post 10 Daily News (N.Y.)25, 64, 83 Gunther, John Lamb, Brian Mowrer, Paul Scott Barlett, Donald L. 26 Daily News (Washington) 34 Gwertzman, Bernard Langer, Ralph Mudd, Roger BBC 9 Daily News-Record (Va.) 25 Hadden, Briton Lardner, Ring Mulroy, James W. Beaubien, Francois de Gaspé 20 Daily Oklahoman 46 Halberstam, David Las Vegas Review-Journal Murdoch, Rupert 26, Beebe, Michael 53 Dallas Morning News 44, Hale, David Latham, Aaron Murrow, Ed Bennett, James Gordon 27 46, 64 Hall, David Lawrence Jr., David Myers, Rev. Robin Benson, Jim 7 Dayton Daily News 26 Hall, Jim Lawson, Victor Nannie, Linda Berita Harian (Malaysia) 19 Dean, Rob 43 Hallinan, Joe Lee, Matthew NASA 14, Bernstein, Carl 81 del Olmo, Frank 64 Halpern, Debora Lehrer, Jim Nashville Scene Block, Herbert Lawrence 35 Delta Air Lines 25 Hamill, Pete Lemann, Nicholas Nation, The (Bangkok) Boeing 13, ae Delugach, Albert L. 34 Hamilton, Argus Lewis, Alfred Henry National Immigration Bohnen, Jerry 43 Des Moines Register 34 Hampton, Henry Lewis, Sinclair Forum Bok, Edward 29 Disney 9, 26 Hanner, Carol Liebling, A.J. National Review 30, Boorstin, Daniel 85 Dixon. Ellie 43 Harakah Life Navarrette, Ruben Jr. Booth, William 62 Dole, Bob 56 Harper’s 28, Limbaugh, Rush 32; NBC News Boren, David 47 Donaldson, William S. 13 Hartford Courant Lindbergh, Charles Near, Jay Borjas, George 63 Dow Jones 26 Harvard Law Review Lippmann, Walter Negroni, Christine Bork, Robert 50 Downing, Kathryn 55 Hauke, Kathleen Littledale, Harold Neuharth, Al Boston Globe 25, 63 Duffy, Edmund Havel, Vaclav Lockheed Martin New England Journal Bourke-White, Margaret 35 Duke, Paul Hearst, William R. London Times 26, 35, of Medicine 20 Bowles, Linda Duncan, David Douglas Hefner, Hugh Long, Huey New Orleans Times- Boyd, Jim Duranty, Walter Hemingway, Ernest LoPiano, Anne D. Picayune 62 Brandeis, Louis Eagle Forum Hendrick, Burton J. Lorimar, George Horace New Republic 14, 31, 56 Brandt, Randolph Ebony Tribune (Okla.) Hendrix, David Los Angeles Express New York Evening Sun 38 rill, Steven Ebony Herald (N.Y.) Los Angeles Times New York Post 26, 85 Brimelow, Peter Economist Hersh, Seymour 34, 43, 54, 57, 62, New York Times Magazine 56 Broder, David Eddy, Mary Baker Hine, Lewis Luce, Henry New York Times 13 14 3roder, Jonathan E & P Yearbook Hitler, Adolf Macfarlane, John 25, 27, 38, 45, 47 3rowne, Malcolm Edwards, Douglas Hohenberg, John Maclean’s 54, 56, 60 Bruce, Lenny EI Nuevo Herald a; Holliman, John MacLeish, Archibald New Yorker 30, 56 3runett, Roy Elliot, Osborn Housh, David MacNeil, Robert Newbranch, HarveyE. 34 Bryan, William Jennings 28 Ellsberg, Daniel S72. Hughes, Charles Evans Marimow, William K. News Corp. 39 Brzobahty, Tomas 22 Environmental Quality Hughes, Howard Markoff, John Newsday (N.Y.) 53, 64 3uchanan, Pat 50, 56 Institute Hulden, Gail Marks, Simon NewsHour a2 Buckley Jr., William F. 30 European Space Agency Hussein, Saddam Martin, Edmund Newsweek 25, 30, 39,45,57 Bush, George 32 Evans, Harry Hyde, Henry Martin, Peter Nightline 81 Business Week 30 Everybody’s Ibarguen, Alberto Martin, Stacy NTSB Buzenberg, Bill 87 Face the Nation Ibrahim, Anwar Martin, Terry O’Hearn, Katherine I. Buzenberg, Susan 87 Fallows, James a4 Investigative Reporters Mayer, Henry Ochs, Adolph Caledonia-Record (Vt.) 43 Family Research Council 50 and Editors 16 McAlary, Mike Oklahoma Ubserver Canadian Magazine FBI 12, 49 Irvine, Reed 13 McCarthy, Joe 34 Oregonian 16, ¢ Publishers Assoc. 20 Ferris, Timothy 17 Irving, Clifford 39 McClure, Samuel Sidney 29 Ottaway, Jim Jr. Canellos, Peter 63 Financial Times 60 Irving, David 39 McConnaughay, Dale 25 Page, Susan Carrier, Mike 46 Fineman, Howard 45 Isakoff, Michael 45 McCormick, Robert 37 Palm Beach Post Carthage Foundation 13 First Stone Ministries 50 Jacoby, Jeff 50 McGee, Mark 26 Panorama (Italy) Catledge, Turner 32 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 30 Johns Hopkins University 9 McGraw-Hill 39 Paramount JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1999 COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW Parker, Elliott 16 Rich, Frank 36 Sharry, Frank Sun-Sentinel (Fla.) U.S. Trade Rep. Parks, Michael 55 Richtel, Matt 14 Shaw, Bernard Surin, Jacqueline Ann UnitedPress PBS 9, 32 Rieger, Andy 49 Sheean, Vincent Suwyn, Dan UPI Peabody Awards 6 Risser, James 50 Sheehan, Neil Swain, Lecia USA Today 32, § Pearson, Diana 45 Roberts, Gene 26 Shimomura, Tsutomu Swing, Raymond Gram Ut, Hyunh Con Pearson, Drew 36 Rockefeller, John D. 30 Shirer, William L. Swope, Herbert Bayard Utusan Malaysia Penenberg, Adam 14 Rockwell, Norman 30 Shirley, Donna Sword, Lew Valova, Irena Perkins, James R. 25 Rocky Mountain News 43 Shuger, Scott Talbot, David Vanity Fair Pew Charitable Trusts 6 Rolling Stone 32 Silovsky, Frank Tarbell, Ida Village Voice Philadelphia Inquirer26, 53 Roosevelt, Theodore 28 Simmons, Chris Teicher, Roy Voice of America Phillips, David Grahami 30 Rosenthal, A.M. 31 Simms, William Philip Telemedia, Inc. Vranesevich, John Piel, Gerard 9 Ross, Harold 30 Slate 26, Temple, John Wall Street Journal Pierre-Pierre, Garry 63 Roth, Richard 10 Slotnick, Elliot E. Thomas, Cal Wallace, Mike Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 45 Rushdie, Salman 83 Smith, Jay Thomas, Clarence Walsh, Denny Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 44 Russell, George 20 Smith, W. Eugene Thomas, Lowell Walters, David Planned Parenthood 46 Safire, William 36 Snow, Tony Thompson, Dorothy Warren, Samuel Playboy 30 Salant, Richard 87 Sobran, Joseph Tilove, Jonathan Washington Post 13, Polk, George 34 Saletan, William 57 Sorbonne Time Warner 2 40, 47, 57, 6 Ponzi, Charles 34 Salon 56 Souter, David Time20, 26, 30, 40, 45, Washington Times Post (Boston) 34 Salzman, Jason 85 Sowell, Thomas Time-Life Weekly Standard Poston, Ted 85 San Francisco Examiner 56 Splaingard, Randy Times Union (N.Y.) Wenner, Jann Press-Enterprise (Cal.) 12 San Jose Mercury News 53 Sports Illustrated Times-Gazette (Tenn.) WFLA-TV (Fla.) Prior, Richard 25 Sanders, James 13 Squires, Jim Times-Mirror White, Theodore Project for Excellence Santa Fe New Mexican 43 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Tisch, Laurence White, William Allen in Journalism 6 Sarah Scaife Foundation 13 St. Petersburg Times Toronto Life Will, George Prusinski, Mike 49 Saturday Evening Post 30 Stahl, Leslie Townley, A.C. Willes, Mark 54, Public Agenda 42 Sauter, Van Gordon 82 Standard Oil Company Tribune (Minn.) Winchell, Walter Pulitzer, Joseph 27 Savannah Morning News 43 Star-Ledger (N_J.) TriStar Wired Pyle, Ernie 34 Scaife, Richard Mellon13, 57 Starr, Kenneth 14, 25, Troy, Frosty WMT AM-FM (Iowa) Radio Free Asia 10 Schlafly, Phyllis 50 State (S.C.) Tulsa World Wolcott, James Ramakrishnan, P. Schmidt, William 45 Steffens, Lincoln Turner, Ted Wolfe, Tom 17, 3¢ Ramos, George Schorr, Dan 81 Stern (Germany) TV Guide Woodward, Bob 40, Rand, Ayn Scientific American 9, 14,32 Stevenson, Robert Louis TWA World (N.Y.) Rather, Dan Scripps-McRae Press 29 Stone, LF. U. North Carolina World Herald (Omaha) Ravnitzky, Michael Scruggs, Bob 26 Stone, Melville E. U. Georgia World Trade Reader’s Digest Segal, Jennifer E. 85 Stone, Oliver U. Maryland Organization Reagan, Nancy Seldes, George 33 Sullivan, Leonard U. Oklahoma Wright, Wilbur Reich, Robert Sevareid, Eric 36, 81 Sulzburger, Arthur Hays U. Toledo Zacchino, Narda Reid, Whitelaw Shannon, Mike 49 Sun (Baltimore) 34, 4: U.S. News & World Zeeck, David Reuters Shapiro, Sam 37 Sun (N.Y.) Report Zimmerman, Walter INCORRECT: - EATING RAW POULTRY MARRYING YOUR SIBLING -"ROLLERBLADING’ Just.a friendly reminder to use the generic terms “in-line skate(s), in-line skater(s), in-line skating” instead of the following, which are misuses of the ROLLERBLADE trademark: "rollerblading, blading, rollerblade(s), blade(s), rollerblader(s ROLLERBLADE blader(s)“ This message comes to you courtesy-of our-attorneys, who are correetly referred to as “extraordinactly anal? COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1999 . 9 jam“ _ 100 Years of News PG by Joan Konner s modern-age human beings we have grown accus- of a new definitive book The American Century. We'll follow tomed to measuring our historic ages in hundreds, up the theme in some other issues in 1999 with articles by even thousands, of years — the Stone Age, the Dark authoritative voices in journalism and history; with polls, Ages, the Age of Enlightenment, and so forth. But in time lines, and reflections; plus symposia on the State of the our lifetimes, the pace of Ages has picked up. In a mere flash Press, discussions that will also appear in our pages and of one hundred years, today’s humans have lived through the online. The purpose will be, as always for Cjr, to assess the Industrial Age, the Nuclear Age, the Electronic Age, the Com- performance of the press over this most remarkable period munications Age, and the Information Age, not counting the of human history — or was it just human history-as-usual New Age, which is rapidly getting to middle age. By all mea- with journalism so magnifying events that it only seems that sures, the twentieth century appears to be the most event- way? We'll be trying to find out. filled period of change in all history (perhaps to be known in & the future as the Age of Ages). Also in this issue, we publish the first annual report by the With this issue, the Columbia Journalism Review jumps Project for Excellence in Journalism examining the state of aboard the Millennium train to explore this last century of local television news. The report, funded by the Pew the past one thousand years, specifically to examine how the Charitable Trusts, looks at twenty television markets and news has shaped the century and how the century has evaluates the local news coverage of sixty-one stations by shaped the news. Journalism not only wrote the first draft of standards developed by a select panel of thirteen news pro- history, it played an ever larger role in defining history. We fessionals. Which stations are best, which are not, and why? learned from science in this century that the observer What works? What doesn’t? At a time when most Americans changes the observed. So too we now recognize that obser- get most of their news from television, the purpose of the vation of current events affects those events and promotes study is to explore what is right and what is wrong with local perceptions that become the foundation for the future. TV news and what lessons can be learned to make it better. Journalists not only cover reality, they have an important ® role in creating it. Finally, a word of tribute to a man who From the Wright brothers’ first flight to the walk on the made all of television better — Henry moon; from the automobile to the picket line; the troops in Hampton, award-winning producer, who trenches and the stock market crash of ’29; TR, FDR, and the died in November at 58, leaving a legacy of presidential debates; Pearl Harbor, the death camps, and the teaching, leading, and bearing witness to mushroom cloud; the movements — civil rights, anti-war, the the historic racial struggle of African women’s and gay liberation; the assassinations, the glittering Americans and his time. We remember City on the Hill, and the Global Village — all became media, Henry for his exceptional documentaries, as well as historical events. The words and images by which including Eyes on the Prize, the defining tele- Henry Hampton we came to know them are branded into our collective memo- vision history of the civil rights movement; ries as the moments that defined our lives and times. Malcolm X and The Great Depression, among others, a body of During the coming year, in a project supervised by editor work for which he won several Emmys, the Peabody Award, at large Neil Hickey, the Columbia Journalism Review will and the duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Radio and examine how journalism came of age in the twentieth centu- Television Journalism. ry. What was the press like when the century began? And But we remember Henry Hampton as well for the person how is it operating today? How did the press’s observation he was and his service to journalism in his nine years as a of events affect those events, and how was journalism member of the jury for the duPont-Columbia Awards. We changed in the act of recording them? What kinds of people came to know Henry not only as a gifted producer but as a became journalists in 1900 and how are today’s journalists wise, insightful, and generous man. He was a quiet voice in different? We'll look at economics, technology, and the polit- a clamorous field. In fulfilling the vision of the best of televi- ical and social scene — how we covered them and how we sion journalism against formidable obstacles and odds, he were changed by them. And we'll explore when and why the was a hero in an unheroic time. public’s confidence and respect for the press began to We are deeply grateful to Henry for the spirit and sensibili- decline, and what can be done about it in the future. ty he brought to his work and to his service in the Graduate We lead off this “Twenty-First Century Project” with a School of Journalism, and we recognize his accomplishment cover article by Harry Evans, editor, publisher, and author in using television to teach, to illuminate, and to inspire. @ JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1999 COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW Help Your Audience Say NO to Frozen Pipes. Cold weather can cause a real disaster — INSIDE your home. Water pipes can freeze and burst. The resulting mess can cost thousands of dollars to clean up and repair. The whole ordeal is avoidable; we can help you tell your audience how. 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This one could have been lost, too, except for the efforts of Seattle COLOR PHOTO: BARRY GUTIERREZ WORLD WAR | PHOTOS COURTESY OF LAURA FROST SMITH Post-Intelligencer reporter Carol. Smith, who happens'to.be Laura's granddaughter. Just months before her death, Laura shared the memories.of the “mud and blood” of serving in that war. Sheeould not even vote when she-enlisted, but her service— and that of other Wwomeh==nelped earn that right and other important opportunities for women in the generations that have followed. The resulting feature, “Witness To War,” has generated a’tremendous response from readers. Laura's life has touched thousands of people in Seattle and across the country, where other papers published the piece. A story of one woman's coufage from long ago is now timeless. Read Witness To War on the World Wide Web at www.seattle-pi.com