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Monday December 23, 1996: Larry Flynt, vulgarian. Plus: The CIA-crack story, round three.

Friday December 20, 1996: TV's new rating system: "Guidelines" today, censorship tomorrow.

Thursday December 19, 1996: Switch hitter: How slick "Jerry Maguire" ads sell Tom Cruise to both sexes.

Wednesday December 18, 1996: Central heating: Why Panamanians are upset about le Carré's novel.

Tuesday December 17, 1996: The Hidden Persuader: Why ad-basher Vance Packard still matters.

Monday December 16, 1996: Snake oil in the garden: Clifford Stoll's vapid TV musings.

Friday December 13, 1996: Girly mags: How men's magazines prop up the fragile Dude Id.

Thursday December 12, 1996: The NBA at 50: Shaq's tack! Dennis’ rod! And other horrors.

Wednesday December 11, 1996: Tupac lives: Why many blacks think the rapper isn't dead.

Tuesday December 10, 1996: French fried: The New Yorker's navel-gazing man in Paris.

Monday December 9, 1996: Michael Crichton's anti-media rant: People in glass houses...

Friday December 6, 1996: New York Times editor blasts bean-counter journalism.

Thursday December 5, 1996: Macho, Macho Mag: Marlboro's masculine mistake.

Wednesday December 4, 1996: Hey, Mickey: Don't cheer too loudly for the Lama-loving mouse.

Tuesday December 3, 1996: The Regis and Kathy Lee of the coming apocalypse.

Monday December 2, 1996: Chardonnay-sipping media elite snubs Joe Sixpack.

Friday November 29, 1996: Nightmare before Christmas: Toy safety terror!

Wednesday November 27, 1996: Heroine overdose: Female trouble at the NY Times.

Tuesday November 26, 1996: O.J. on the stand: More lies from the murderer.

Monday November 25, 1996: New Age cyberpunks: "Star Trek's" Borg are villains we deserve.

Friday November 22, 1996: Cancer Man killed JFK! Behind TV's conspiracy mania.

Thursday November 21, 1996: Pussy galore: One man's agonizing addiction to Cat Fancy magazine.

Wednesday November 20, 1996: "The Vital Center": Pulling the pants off Clinton's slogan.

Tuesday November 19, 1996: Alger Hiss: Why America loves to hate Harvard golden boys.

Monday November 18, 1996: Kicking Sassy: The once-great teen mag's final humiliation.

Friday November 15, 1996: Talkin' 'bout a revolution: Is the religious right ready to secede from America?

Thursday November 14, 1996: Tiny tomes: The strange allure of the miniature book.

Wednesday November 13, 1996: Jenny Jones: Guilty of vulgarity — but not murder.

Tuesday November 12, 1996: The Salinger missile stupidity: Don't blame the Net.

Monday November 11, 1996: Live from ground zero: Voyager's final flameout.

Friday November 8, 1996: Random House honcho flees "provincial" NY for LA.

Thursday November 7, 1996: Just shoe it: Nike's consumer temple shakes up 5th Avenue.

Wednesday November 6, 1996: Drooping anchors: TV's dreary election coverage.

Tuesday November 5, 1996: Hot 'n' hunky: Pro wrestling's big cable brawl.

Monday, November 4, 1996: Blood will out? Peddling home HIV tests.

Friday November 1, 1996: Esquire's cover fraud: The faking of an ingenue.

Thursday October 31, 1996: Big and bouncy: Fat girls flaunt it on the Web.

Wednesday October 30, 1996: Evitamania: The Disney-fication of a dictatress.

Tuesday October 29, 1996: Job porn: Fast Company sexes up corporate culture.

Monday October 28, 1996: Must-Stop TV: When a public access program captured Tom Brokaw's off-the-cuff remarks, NBC brought out the big guns attacks.

Friday October 25, 1996: Wired IPO unplugged: The clueless digital elite.

Thursday October 24, 1996: Go Speed Racer, go — Go to hell!

Wednesday October 23, 1996: Freaks out! An African-American teenager's open letter to her rump-shaking sisters.

Tuesday October 22, 1996: Why do Americans hate the press? Because it's sleazy and corrupt.

Monday October 21, 1996: Pyst off: A hilarious CD-ROM send-up of "Myst."

Friday October 18, 1996: Manhattan mud wrestling: Murdoch vs. Turner.

Thursday October 17, 1996: Debate II: Dole fails to rise from the dead.

Wednesday October 16, 1996: Cashing in their chips: Death pools on the Internet.

Tuesday October 15, 1996: Stephen King: I want to mess with your life.

Monday October 14, 1996: Floundering Father: Was Jefferson a radical and racist?

Friday October 11, 1996: Memoir mania: Why some writers should keep mum.

Thursday October 10, 1996: Manhattan manhunt: How women of the '90s lay the trap.

Wednesday October 9, 1996: OJ Trial 2.0: Every word on the Web.

Tuesday October 8, 1996: Cool Site Awards to Silicon Alley: "You suck".

Monday October 7, 1996: How I became the story at the Great Debate of '96.

Friday October 4, 1996: The Prodigal Preacher: Bill Clinton as spiritual leader

Thursday October 3, 1996: Hype of Darkness: Confessions of a PR hack

Wednesday October 2, 1996: Can Wired practice what it preaches?

Tuesday October 1, 1996: Gay magazines, straight cover stories. Huh?

Monday September 30, 1996: Calvin Klein gets "real" by using fat models, but what are the ads really saying?

Friday September 27, 1996: O.J. Trial II: Finally, a way to make money on the Web.

Thursday September 26, 1996: The Ellen DeGeneres flap: Will she come out or won't she?

Wednesday September 25, 1996: Comedy Central's "Daily Show" kicks SNL when it's down.

Tuesday September 24, 1996: Burden of proof: Does the press apply its skepticism unevenly?

Monday September 23, 1996: MTV's "Choose or Lose" bus: nice body, eng. needs work.

Friday September 20, 1996: Why personal finance mags are tottering towards irrelevance.

Thursday September 19, 1996: Hernia by Armani: A (grunt) 708-page Vogue.

Wednesday September 18, 1996: Psychobabble and divinity at the Miss America pageant.

Tuesday September 17, 1996: From stilettos to soundbites: Miss America, '90s-style.

Monday September 16, 1996: Strange syntax in a strange land.

Friday September 13, 1996: List-mania: Top 10 reasons why media rankings are really dumb.

Thursday September 12, 1996: Can the Web save independent media voices?

Wednesday September 11, 1996: Lunch Menu Man: Voicemail's first superstar.

Tuesday September 10, 1996: Bad weather, great ratings: The hurricane season premieres.

Monday September 9, 1996: Boring. Pretentious. Indecipherable. It's an art magazine!

Friday September 6,1996: Not since Homer ... have book blurbs been this ridiculous!

Thursday September 5,1996: Smokescreen: Media falls for Clinton's tobacco ploy.

Wednesday September 4,1996: Ex-junkie: Just say no to new anti-heroin ads.

Tuesday September 3,1996: No-risk offal: The unbearable lameness of magazine covers.

Friday August 30,1996: Chandler's Vanity: LA patriarch's obscene boast.

Thursday August 29,1996: The best magazines for Clinton-bashing.

Wednesday August 28,1996: Stop the presses! Women actually like Hillary!

Tuesday August 27,1996: Tears for Fears: NBC's convention cryathon.

Monday August 26,1996: Sports radio gets a life.

Friday August 23,1996: Search Voyeur: The sad truth about the Web revealed

Thursday August 22,1996: Bus stop Zen: teaser ads or message from God?

Wednesday August 21,1996: The $40 million relaunch of Condé Nast's House and Garden celebrates the joy of living vicariously

Tuesday August 20,1996: Bill's B-Day: SF's orgy fo self-love

Monday August 19,1996: The People's Republic of Conventionland by Christopher Hitchens

Friday August 16,1996: Pretty boys: How Hollywood media handles hunks.

Thursday August 15,1996: The Christian Coalition is right -- The press is biased.

Wednesday August 14,1996: Pratfall: Comedy Central's Al Franken flops in San Diego.

Tuesday August 13,1996: Dancing with the condoms on the GOP fringe.

Monday August 12,1996: Selling dirt: How advertisers learned from politicians.

Friday August 9,1996: High concept: Book publishers lure Tinseltown types.

Thursday August 8,1996: Gifts for the creep who has everything.

Wednesday August 7,1996:George magazine's first fabulous fashion foray!

Tuesday August 6,1996: NBC's Olympic coverage: a horrible vision of the future.

Monday August 5,1996: Right on: The Weekly Standard waves the neocon banner.

Friday August 2,1996: The media coverup: Drugs are fun!

Thursday August 1,1996: Diabolical billboard campaign buzzes L.A.

Wednesday July 31,1996: The hottest - and soppiest - new Olympic event: The Cryathalon.

Tuesday July 30,1996: Romance! Angst! Horoscopes! Condé Nast descends on the Web.

Monday July 29,1996: With friends like these: Why the liberal media bashes Clinton.

Friday July 26,1996: How the NY Times makes Bob Dole look even worse.

Thursday July 25,1996: Godzilla, phone home: Today's movie monsters suck.

Wednesday July 24,1996: The Web's cornucopia of columnists.

Tuesday July 23,1996: Censorship scares -- a liberal growth industry.

Monday July 22,1996: Nike's new rough-trade ads: no girly men allowed.

Friday July 19,1996: Would you buy a high-brow magazine from these guys?

Thursday July 18,1996: Liar Joe Klein: A disgrace to journalism. MSNBC: Not ready for prime time.

Wednesday July 17,1996: The Real World: MTV funÉ or the ninth circle of Hell?

Tuesday July 16,1996: Millennium, dude! The world's first surfin' futurist.

Monday July 15,1996: In the Valley of the News Babes.

Friday July 12,1996:Ask not for whom the Web polls.

Thursday July 11,1996: Fight the power! How to turn off Happy Talk media.

Wednesday July 10,1996: Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly's blue-collar bullshit.

Tuesday July 9,1996: The reform movement that infuriates the pundits.

Monday July 8,1996: The Web's best photography site.

Wednesday July 3,1996: NYT's 100th: It's our party and we'll drone if we want to

Tuesday July 2,1996: Sports Illustrated: All a literate magazine should be

Monday July 1,1996: Hollywood S&M: Exploiting Sony's yen for punishment

Friday June 28,1996: E-mail Confidential: The Internet's Walter Winchell.

Thursday June 27,1996: Topless body found on headless magazine!!

Wednesday June 26,1996: Irony showdown: "Beavis" butts heads with "Talk Soup".

Tuesday June 25,1996: Kinsley's Slate debuts: We'll wait for 1.1.

Monday June 24,1996: In praise of rear ends: Magazines' back pages are the best.

Friday June 21,1996: When fiction isn't: multiple murder in The New Yorker.

Thursday June 20,1996: Bend over, America: "Hunchback" hype is here!

Wednesday June 19,1996: Technoids in tuxes strut at NY's new media awards bash.

Tuesday June 18,1996: Tailored news: The rise of Internet clip joints.

Monday June 17,1996: Oprah, Cindy Crawford & New Age nuts: Book fest nightmare.

Friday June 14,1996: Screws loose at Wired: Publisher suffers memory loss. The best paper in the U.S. is in New York. (It's not the Times.)

Thursday June 13,1996: The He who haunts the pages of women's mags.

Wednesday June 12,1996: Who is Dennis Rodman? The man who wrote the book talks.

Tuesday June 11,1996: Reagan did steal the White House, says dogged muckraker.

Monday June 10,1996: Eno, Spike and Laurie Anderson: Multimedia misfire.

Friday June 7,1996: Duh! The D-word not too stupid for Webster's.

Thursday June 6,1996: Sex ads: The hope for America's future.

Wednesday June 5,1996: Exquisite corpses: Why pumped boys and junkie girls are in Vogue.

Tuesday June 4,1996: It's not hot, it's not cool! The anti-Vanity Fair mag.

Monday June 3,1996: Houses of ill repute: The further decline of the book biz

Friday May 31,1996: Global hot spots: The world's best TV commercials.

Thursday May 30,1996: ESPN's jiggle aerobics gives net big ratings bounce.

Wednesday May 29,1996: Soundbite saturnalia! CNN's daily fix for political junkies.

Tuesday May 28,1996: Pressing the flesh at France's Golden Penis Fest.

Friday May 24,1996: Black and white and Ted all over: "Nightline" on race.

Thursday May 23,1996: Hotwired to Wired: You suck.

Wednesday May 22,1996: Kitty porn! TV's weird wave of animal snuff specials.

Tuesday May 21,1996: Don't worry, be hacy: In defense of CD-ROM serfdom.

Monday May 20,1996: Why corny Consumer Reports is the coolest mag around.

Friday May 17,1996:Physics prof's hoax leaves high-brow journal with mud on face.

Thursday May 16,1996: O.J., Richard Speck, the Cosmo Girl and other indecencies.

Wednesday May 15,1996: Eminent lawyer leads Scientology's war against Net "anarchists".

Tuesday May 14,1996: NY Times Online beats the competition -- itself.

Monday May 13,1996: Rolling Stone's mossy view of the Web.

Friday May 10,1996: Death of a Sales Force: Did you hear the one about the downsized encyclopedia salesman?

Thursday May 9,1996: The fine art of insult: Brits' "Question Time" fires up C-SPAN.

Wednesday May 8,1996: Blood and cardigans: Why I like Benetton's morbid ads.

Tuesday May 7,1996: Better Slate than never: The New Yorker discovers the Web.

Monday May 6,1996: Farewell Adam Rich: Might magazine hoaxes an obit.

Friday May 3, 1996: Blurbmania: When good reviews happen to bad books

Thursday May 2, 1996: What do dudes really want? The Details "Sex Issue."

Wednesday May 1, 1996: The Nation's makeover: Old whine in a new bottle?

Tuesday April 30, 1996: Todd Gitlin: The press is missing the biggest race story.

Monday April 29, 1996: Gary Kamiya on "60 Minutes'" new commentary troika of Stanley Crouch, Molly Ivins and P.J. O'Rourke -- and Andy Rooney's less-than-effusive welcome.

April 26, 1996: All menu, no food: The Web's review-of-review syndrome.

April 25, 1996: Gary Kamiya reviews The New Yorker's "Black in America"

April 24, 1996: Tina Brown and Henry louis Gates kick it a New Yorker bash.

April 23, 1996: A NY Times sportswriter's strange syndrome.

April 22, 1996: Camille Paglia on the triumph of the media elite.

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