Collects essays by leading journalists on such topics as fighting in court in order to make news public, censorship surrounding the war on terror, and the threat that distortion of the news imposes on a free society. Writing in riveting detail about their personal experiences with corporate efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers, nearly two dozen print and TV journalists present devastating essays about the dangerous state of American journalism today. Foreword 9(4) Gore Vidal Acknowledgments 13(2) Editor's Introduction 15(20) The Patriot and the Censor's Necklace: An Interview with BBC Culture Correspondent Madeleine Holt 35(8) Dan Rather The Memo 43(4) Charles Reina A Shot Messenger's Observations 47(14) Ashleigh Banfield The War on Terror and the Great Game for Oil: How the Media Missed the Context 61(32) Charlotte Dennett The Price of Liberty 93(22) Gerard Colby Crimes and Silence: The CIA's Criminal Acts and the Media's Silence 115(26) John Kelly The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On 141(16) Gary Webb Mainstream Media: The Drug War's Shills 157(38) Michael Levine The Silence of the Lambs: An American in Journalistic Exile 195(12) Greg Palast The Fox, the Hounds, and the Sacred Cows 207(32) Jane Akre The Story No One Wanted to Hear 239(14) J. Robert Port Verdict First, Evidence Later: The Case for Bobby Garwood 253(30) Monika Jensen-Stevenson Into the Buzzsaw 283(48) Kristina Borjesson Coal Mine Canaries 331(32) David E. Hendrix When Black Becomes White 363(14) Philip Weiss Stories We Love, Stories We Hate 377(12) Helen Malmgren Shouting at the Crocodile 389(28) Maurice Murad What Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Muckraking? 417(18) Carl Jensen The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism 435(20) Robert McChesney Index 455