Todd Gitlin

Articles by Todd Gitlin

National Observer

by Todd Gitlin
Feb. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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As the herd of Republican lemmings thunders toward its chosen precipice, indignation continues to re  read more »

Aristocracy of Political DropoutsProduces a 'Surrealer' World

by Todd Gitlin
Jan. 10th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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When the word "surreal" becomes a commonplace, the world has gone too weird for words.  read more »

Editing: An Act of Generosity, Not a Stab at Co-Authorship

by Todd Gitlin
Aug. 23rd, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Editing a book is an act of generosity. It's a mind-meld, an act of love–love for the work.  read more »

An Apt Show for New York: The Street of Crocodiles

by Todd Gitlin
Aug. 9th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Fifty-six years after a Gestapo agent in a Nazi-occupied Galician-Polish-Ukrainian town put two bull  read more »

Press Should Unpeel Chiquita, Even if Exposé Monkeyed Around

by Todd Gitlin
Jul. 26th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Like police who blow a case by trotting out tainted evidence at trial, The Cincinnati Enquirer blew  read more »

Curt and Uncourtly, Broomfield Slashes and Burns Grunge

by Todd Gitlin
Jul. 12th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Kurt and Courtney rubbed many reviewers the wrong way, partly because director Nick Broomfield slyly  read more »

Furor Over 'Gay Jesus' Part of a Cultural Chill

by Todd Gitlin
Jun. 21st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Now that the Manhattan Theater Club has rediscovered its nerve and reinstated Corpus Christi on its  read more »

Getty's Modernist Palace: Not For the Hoity-Toity

by Todd Gitlin
Jun. 7th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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As we swoop down the San Diego Freeway, my stepdaughter looks up at the off-white Getty Center atop  read more »

Knight in Shining Sneakers! The Swoosh Strikes Back

by Todd Gitlin
May. 24th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Nike Inc., while offending people on almost as many continents as it has shod them, has lately been  read more »

Maybe That Swoosh Was CBS, Running to Catch Its Big Ads

by Todd Gitlin
May. 10th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Two weeks ago in this space, I chastised ABC, CBS, and NBC for dereliction of journalistic duty for  read more »

ESPN Runs the Sneaker Story That Bigfoot Networks Eschew

by Todd Gitlin
Apr. 26th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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ESPN, the cable sports network, has proved itself far more serious about reporting labor conditions  read more »

Lessons for Clinton and Starr in an Abdication Back in '68

by Todd Gitlin
Mar. 29th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Those who thrill in anticipation of a disgraced President leaving the White House under a cloud migh  read more »

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Saddam Snubbed at Time Bash

by Todd Gitlin
Mar. 15th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Whoever said that in the era of gilded info-glut, news magazines are no longer needed?  read more »

Westward-Ho! Starr Chamber, Then Starr-Crossed Malibu

by Todd Gitlin
Mar. 1st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Go back a year to the moment when Kenneth Starr announced he was leaving the independent counsel's o  read more »

To Innuendo, the Media Never Say Diminuendo

by Todd Gitlin
Feb. 15th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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As my mother pointed out the other day, soap opera characters rarely phone each other to say, "Come  read more »

Where's the Cineplex for Films About Everyday Moral Conflicts?

by Todd Gitlin
Feb. 1st, 1998, 8:00 pm
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There is a moment in Jim Sheridan's incandescent The Boxer that reveals, in a single, perfectly time  read more »

Jingoist Network TV Newscasts Cut Away From a World of News

by Todd Gitlin
Jan. 18th, 1998, 8:00 pm
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Television journalism, ever slipping toward the edge of oxymoron, is teetering fast.  read more »

Let Us Dialogue InteractivelyOn a Bridge to the 21st Century

by Todd Gitlin
Dec. 21st, 1997, 8:00 pm
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My fellow Americans: Thank you for focusing on this latest in our series of national town meetings c  read more »

The Day The New York Times Didn't Print My Letter

by Todd Gitlin
Dec. 7th, 1997, 8:00 pm
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On the street, in the subway, through the halls of New York University, your reasonably attentive co  read more »

So Lonesome We Could Cry: The Romance of Capitalism

by Todd Gitlin
Nov. 9th, 1997, 8:00 pm
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The slide, or slump, or fall-sorry, correction -was amazing but not surprising.There is a predictabl  read more »

No Cream for Shelby Coffey At the Los Angeles Times

by Todd Gitlin
Oct. 26th, 1997, 8:00 pm
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Newspaper insiders everywhere are buzzing about the recent resignation of Los Angeles Times editor S  read more »

Bochco's Brooklyn South: Hill Street Blues Gone Blah

by Todd Gitlin
Oct. 12th, 1997, 8:00 pm
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Sixteen years ago, Steven Bochco rubbed the TV cop show in the gutter and made it fresh.  read more »