By Nicholas von Hoffman 8/03/98 12:00am

Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy Coming to a TV Near You

Gossip has it that the underlings at Cable News Network and Time magazine have still not recovered from the backblast following the network’s Operation Tailwind story. Aired on June 7 under the title “Valley of Death,” and then published in Time , the program alleged that the United States used poison gas in Laos in Read More

By Todd Gitlin 7/27/98 12:00am

Press Should Unpeel Chiquita, Even if Exposé Monkeyed Around

Like police who blow a case by trotting out tainted evidence at trial, The Cincinnati Enquirer blew a fine exposé of Chiquita bananas. In the same month when CNN and Time together did as much to discredit investigative journalism as Newsweek ‘s Michael Isikoff, The Enquirer made national news when it ran a page 1 Read More