The Magazine
November / December 2006
Articles
- Feature
- The Reign of the CPA
- An effort to spin the war occasionally veered into the absurd
- By The Editors
- Feature
- Omens and Incidents
- Negotiating cultural fault lines in Iraq
- By The Editors
- Feature
- The Death of Supply Column 21
- A lesson from the Vietnam War on the press, the military, and authority.
- By David Halberstam
- Feature
- Liberties and Ambiguities
- As Iraq began to unravel
- By The Editors
- Feature
- Reporting in Iraq
- The mundane and the profound
- By The Editors
- Feature
- Enemies and Civilians
- How big stories could hide in plain sight
- By The Editors
- Feature
- The Embeds
- What is gained, and what is lost
- By The Editors
- Feature
- In the Beginning
- The early days of the Iraq war gave journalists freedom to report, but also hints of something darker
- By The Editors
- Feature
- The Continuing Story
- How Iraq is different from, and the same as, other wars
- By The Editors
- Feature
- The Good News
- The clamor for ‘positive’ stories didn’t fit the reality of Iraq
- By The Editors
- Feature
- Turning Points
- Everyone has a story about when things began to go bad
- By The Editors
Ideas + Reviews
- Essay
- Fear of Yoga
- Today, everybody, including the press, loves the Hindu practice of health and spirituality. But it took a couple of centuries to get there.
- By Robert Love
- Review
- The Desegregation Drama
- The white news media came late to the scene. But when they finally did arrive, the battle was joined.
- By David K. Shipler
Departments
- Darts and Laurels
- Darts & Laurels
- Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
- By Gloria Cooper
- Editorial
- Assignment Iraq
- A note from the editors
- By The Editors
- The Research Report
- Inside Jokes
- A new take on news and late-night comedy, and a parsing of journalistic courage
- By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil
