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Are polls reliable? 51 pecent of Table Talkers say no.
The New Republic is getting old But should it go away?
Marcia Clark Will we ever be rid of her?
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Brand X
[ Ruth Shalit ]

Out of focus A peep through the one-way mirror at that great American institution, the focus group, reveals a glittering lineup of cheaters, repeaters and sad sacks who wash their hair with Jell-O.
[04/23/99]

Weekend, May 8-9, 1999

Alt Millennial-time religion: The L.A. Weekly gets spiritual; Long Island welcomes Amy Fisher; poo falls from the sky in Salt Lake City.
By Jenn Shreve [05/07/99]

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Web of doom After the Littleton massacre, paranoid media pundits seem blind to the line between the computer screen and reality. That's just what they tell us the killers' problem was.
By Scott Rosenberg [Technology - 05/07/99]

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We are all page-view whores now Now that we online journalists know exactly what people want to read, we've got to find something that'll stop us from -- horrors! -- giving it to them.
By James Poniewozik [05/06/99]
Up in smoke As cigarette billboards from coast to coast are replaced by anti-smoking ads, the billboard-liberation movement gathers to celebrate 20 years of ad "improvement" and smoke on the Marlboro Man's grave.
By James Poniewozik [05/03/99]
Alt Decorating for Communists! The Seattle Weekly combines politics and home and garden advice; Baltimore reporters explore the origins of movie trailers.
By Jenn Shreve [04/30/99]
Kill your TV On two continents, American firepower knocks television programming off the air -- just in time for National TV-Turnoff Week.
By James Poniewozik [04/29/99]
Let the games begin! Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner may just be two rich white guys squaring off in court -- but they're two very, very rich white guys who really, really don't like each other.
By Nikki Finke [04/27/99]
Sermon on the mint Financial planner Suze Orman's bestselling gospel aims to heal your wounded inner Daddy Warbucks. To most of America, she's the voice of money -- and she not only wants to make you rich, she wants you to feel spiritually good about being rich.
By James Poniewozik [04/26/99]
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From the Pew Research Center
Record News Interest in Littleton Shooting
The number crunchers at Pew find the Littleton murders are the third most closely followed news story of the 1990s, just behind the Rodney King verdict and TWA flight 800.
From the Utne Reader
Media Diet: Ray Suarez
The classy, chatty host of NPR's "Talk of the Nation" blabs to the world about what he reads and watches.
From Mother Jones
John Hockenberry
The classy, chatty former host of NPR's "Talk of the Nation" -- and current MSNBC host -- dismisses media "self-flagellation," discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act and says the difference between public radio and cable news now is "remarkably unimportant."

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