Journalism

Linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on Microsoft's new on-line magazine and wonders whether traditional journalistic forms will work on the Web.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on William Safire's recent choice of words for describing Hillary Clinton: "congenital liar."

Commentator Gayle Pemberton on the importance of African-American magazines.

Maureen Corrigan wonders why Americans don't read as much as they used to.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan says she's just about had it with the recent spate of magazines offering the same old cliches about women.

Commentator Patricia McLaughlin ("mik-loff-lin") examines "Martha Stewart Living," a new magazine from the high priestess of the dinner party.

Critic Maureen Corrigan comments on the profusion of mainstream publications which implore readers to follow a holistic lifestyle, and warn them of new, overblown health risks.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan takes a look at the book reviewers bible, "Publishers Weekly." She examines how PW has often hawked new books that went nowhere, while barely mentioning books that went on to become classics.

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg examines the blurbs on book jackets...those hyperbolic quotes that declare seemingly every new book to be "a blockbuster" or "runaway best-seller."

This week marks the 10th anniversary of ABC's "Nightline," and television critic David Bianculli examines how the show went from a special on the hostage crisis to one of the most important programs in broadcast journalism.