Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
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What Future for the News?—An Exchange
November 5, 2009
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The Times & the Internet
September 24, 2009
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A New Horizon for the News
September 24, 2009
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The News About the Internet
August 13, 2009
Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
by Eric Boehlert
And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
by Bill Wasik
Rob Browne at Daily Kos: rbguy.dailykos.com
Juan Cole, Informed Comment: juancole.com
Brad DeLong, Grasping Reality with Both Hands: delong.typepad.com/sdj
Jeffrey Goldberg: jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com
Michael Goldfarb: weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/
Glenn Greenwald: salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post: huffingtonpost.com/the-news/reporting/ryan-grim
Joanne Jacobs: joannejacobs.com
Ron Kampeas, CapitalJ: blogs.jta.org/politics/
Mickey Kaus, kausfiles: www.slate.com/kausfiles/
Mark Kleiman, The Reality-Based Community: samefacts.com
Ezra Klein at The Washington Post: voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein
Kevin Pho, KevinMD: kevinmd.com
M.J. Rosenberg: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/mjrosenberg
Yves Smith: nakedcapitalism.com
Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Tanta at CalculatedRISK: calculatedriskblog.com
Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss: philipweiss.org/mondoweiss
Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel at FireDogLake: emptywheel.firedoglake.com
Matthew Yglesias: yglesias.thinkprogress.org
ProPublica: propublica.org
Talking Points Memo: talkingpointsmemo.com
“Why Are Bankers Still Being Treated As Beltway Royalty?” by Arianna Huffington
“The State of the News Media, 2009: An Annual Report on American Journalism” by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
“Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” by Clay Shirky
Ross Douthat at The New York Times: nytimes.com
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Is It a Great Victory?
April 30, 2009
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008
by Thomas E. Ricks
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Obama: In the Divided Heartland
December 18, 2008
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Embedded in Iraq
July 17, 2008
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The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?
April 3, 2008
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As Iraqis See It
January 17, 2008
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Iraq: The Hidden Human Costs
December 20, 2007
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel Fick
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
by Evan Wright
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
by David Bellavia, with John R. Bruning
Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective
by Paul Rieckhoff
Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army
by Kayla Williams, with Michael E. Staub
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
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The Israel Lobby
August 10, 2006
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Campus Watch
July 13, 2006
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The Storm over the Israel Lobby
June 8, 2006
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‘The End of News?’
March 23, 2006
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‘The Enemy Within’: An Exchange
February 9, 2006
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The Press: The Enemy Within
December 15, 2005
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Targeted in Lebanon
December 1, 2005
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The End of News?
December 1, 2005
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‘Unfit to Print?’
August 12, 2004
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Unfit to Print?
June 24, 2004
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‘Iraq: Now They Tell Us’: An Exchange
April 8, 2004
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‘Now They Tell Us’: An Exchange
March 25, 2004
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Now They Tell Us
February 26, 2004
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The Unseen War
May 29, 2003
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An Open Letter to the President
December 21, 2000
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The Narco-State?
June 15, 2000
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The End of Welfare?
October 7, 1999
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
by Katherine S. Newman
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The Blue Revolution
November 19, 1998
Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
by William Bratton, with Peter Knobler
Getting Away With Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System
by Susan Estrich
Politics, Punishment, and Populism
by Lord Windlesham
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West of Downtown
December 18, 1997
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon, by Edward Burns
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How To Win the Tobacco War
July 11, 1996
Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
The Cigarette Papers by Stanton A. Glantz, by John Slade, by Lisa A. Bero, by Peter Hanauer, by Deborah E. Barnes
Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up by Philip J. Hilts
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Crime and Drugs: The New Myths
February 1, 1996
Land of Opportunity: One Family’s Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack by William M. Adler
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals
by Mark S. Fleisher
The American Street Gang: Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control by Malcolm W. Klein
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Hanging Out
May 25, 1995
Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men by Elliot Liebow
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The Welfare Blues
March 24, 1994
Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair by Susan Sheehan
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Stuck in Traffic
February 3, 1994
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Delusions of the Drug Cops
July 15, 1993
Swordfish: A True Story of Ambition, Savagery, and Betrayal by David McClintick
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‘Evil Money’
March 4, 1993
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Drugs and the Law
February 11, 1993
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The New Mafia
December 3, 1992
The Gotti Tapes: Including the Testimony of Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano foreword by Ralph Blumenthal, afterword by John Miller
War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy edited by Alfred W. McCoy, edited by Alan A. Block
Evil Money: Encounters Along the Money Trail
by Rachel Ehrenfeld
The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Operations by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International
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What Ever Happened to the ‘War on Drugs’?
June 11, 1992
The Search for Rational Drug Control by Franklin E. Zimring, by Gordon Hawkins
Cocaine Changes: The Experience of Using and Quitting
by Dan Waldorf, by Craig Reinarman, by Sheigla Murphy
Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street
by Robert M. Stutman, by Richard Esposito
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results by Mark A. R. Kleiman
Pipe Dream Blues: Racism and the War on Drugs by Clarence Lusane, with Dennis Desmond
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The Betrayal of the Contras
December 19, 1991
Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua’s Contra Rebels by Sam Dillon
Executive Report 10219 on the Nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence report by the Select Committee on Intelligence
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Can Saddam Survive?
August 15, 1991
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Sitting on Top of the News
June 27, 1991
The Commanders by Bob Woodward
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The Salvation of Panama?
June 13, 1991
Panama: The Whole Story by Kevin Buckley
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The Way to War
March 28, 1991
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The New Game in Guatemala
October 25, 1990
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New Trouble in Panama
May 17, 1990
Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms
by John Dinges
Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega by Frederick Kempe
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The Two William Bennetts
March 1, 1990
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How Free Is the Soviet Press?
September 28, 1989
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Sad New El Salvador
May 18, 1989
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Desperate Over Drugs
March 30, 1989
The Pizza Connection: Lawyers, Money, Drugs, Mafia
by Shana Alexander
The Cocaine Wars by Paul Eddy, with Hugo Sabogal, by Sara Walden
Sealing the Borders: The Effects of Increased Military Participation in Drug Interdiction by Peter Reuter, by Gordon Crawford, by Jonathan Cave
Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín CartelAn Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption by Guy Gugliotta, by Jeff Leen
Desperadoes: Latin Drug Lords, US Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win by Elaine Shannon
White Rabbit: A Doctor’s Story of Her Addiction and Recovery by Martha Morrison MD.
Drug Abuse Prevention: Further Efforts Needed to Identify Programs That Work
The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control by David F. Musto MD.
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‘The War on Cocaine’: An Exchange
March 2, 1989
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The War on Cocaine
December 22, 1988
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Who Are the Sandinistas?
May 12, 1988
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Haiti: The New Violence
December 3, 1987
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The Chief
February 12, 1987
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It's Time to Scrutinize Fox
July 30, 2011
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The News Crisis: What Google Can Do
December 10, 2009
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A Public Bailout for News?
November 9, 2009
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Michael Massing in Ohio
October 27, 2008

