Press Lords!—June 2004

PERSPECTIVE

Honest Journalist
by Thomas Fleming

A modest proposal.

VIEWS

Independent Media Tribes
by Jesse Walker
Bypassing the old gatekeepers.

Reality TV News
by Justin Raimondo
Scripted by the Bush administration.

NEWS

The Fall of Lord Blackadder and Lady Manolo (of Blahnik)
by Kevin Michael Grace
Conrad Black (and blue).

The Fourth Choice
by William J. Quirk
Ending the reign of activist judges.

REVIEWS

A League of Bushes
by Ben C. Toledano

Kevin Phillips: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

James O. Tate on Randall Ivey’s The Shape of a Man: A Novella and Five Stories and The Mutilation Gypsy and Other Stories

Katherine Dalton on John Shelton Reed’s Minding the South

Janet Scott Barlow on Pete Rose’s and Rick Hill’s My Prison Without Bars

Fr. Michael P. Orsi on Jim Powell’s FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

Patrick J. Walsh on Jonathan Bate’s John Clare: A Biography and “I AM”: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by Jonathan Bate

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter From England: The End of the Affair?
by Derek Turner

Letter From Australia: A Tale of Two Queenslanders
by R.J. Stove

VITAL SIGNS

THE MEDIA: Whose Bias?
by Leon T. Hadar

INTELLIGENCE: Who Was Watching the Watchers?
by Margie Burns

COLUMNS

SINS OF OMISSION
by Roger McGrath

PRINCIPALITIES & POWERS
by Samuel Francis

THE ROCKFORD FILES
by Scott P. Richert

EUROPEAN DIARY
by Andrei Navrozov

THE AMERICAN INTEREST
by Srdja Trifkovic

IN THE DARK
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Return
by George McCartney

THE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN
by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

RESOURCES
by Scott P. Richert

DEPARTMENTS

POLEMICS & EXCHANGES
AMERICAN PROSCENIUM
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

POETRY
A Flock of Sheep and
On the Way to Inverness by Peter Hunt   

ON THE COVER

Cover and inside illustrations by Melanie Anderson and H. Ward Sterett.