Andrea Thomas, a senior at Miami University, quoted in Stefanie Olsen, “The 'Millennials' Usher in a New Era,” CNET News, online, November 18, 2005.
2 Meg Kissing, “The Millennials,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, online, June 5, 2005.
3 Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation (Vintage, 2000). See also www.millennialsrising.com.
4 Seymour Papert of MIT's Media Lab, cited in Stefanie Olsen, “The 'Millennials' Usher in a New Era.”
5 Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited in Meg Kissing, “The Millennials.”
6 See, for example, Harold Meyerson, "Fact-Free News", Washington Post National Weekly Edition online, October 15, 2003.
7 See, for example, Eric Klinenberg, “United States: Unfree Press,” Le Monde diplomatique online, April, 2004.
8 “The Gaming of Violence,” New York Times editorial, online, April 30, 1999.
9 Figures from the Interactive Digital Software Association, the industry's trade group, as cited in Carey Goldberg, “Children and Violent Video Games: A Warning,” The New York Times, Online, December 15, 1998.
10 Lawrie Mifflin, “Many Researchers Say Link Is Already Clear on Media and Youth Violence,” The New York Times, Online, May 9, 1999.
11 Bobby Farrelly, who produced There's Something About Mary.
12 Parents in doubt about a game can call the ratings board's toll-free number, (800) 771-3772, or go to its Web site, at www.esrb.org.
13 See, for example, Warren Berger, “Where Have You Gone Standards and Practices?”, The New York Times, Online, September 20, 1998.
14 “Reno, Rockers Fight Teen Violence,” Infobeat online news item, May 11, 1999.
15 Joanne Cantor, professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of Mommy, I'm Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1998). Cited in Lawrie Mifflin, “Many Researchers Say Link Is Already Clear.”
16 Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (Viking, 1996), p. 280. See especially the chapter, "Forbidden Reading."
17 Doreen Carvajal, "Uneasy Marriage of Interests for Television and Publishers," The New York Times, November 10, 1996, p. A1.
18 Consumer Price Index, as quoted in Tamar Lewin, “When Books Break the Bank,” New York Times online, September 16, 2003.
19 The College Board, cited in “When Books Break the Bank.”
20 National Association of College Stores, cited in “When Books Break the Bank.”
21 Cited in “When Books Break the Bank.”
22 Cited in “When Books Break the Bank.”
23 Most of these headlines came from www.eyesoftime.com/ssor/headlines.html, which is currently defunct.
24 “Top Journalism of the Century,” Associated Press online, March 1, 1999.
25 David Carr, “In Print, Staring Down a Daily Worry,” New York Times, online, May 22, 2006.
26 Michael Kinsley, “The Future of Newspapers,” Slate, online, January 7, 2006.
27 Katharine Q. Seelye, “At Newspapers, Some Clipping,” New York Times, online, October 10, 2005.
28 Ridder is quoted in Seelye, “At Newspapers, Some Clipping.”
29 Katharine Q. Seelye, “Washington Post Has an Exit Jam after Buyouts,” New York Times, online, June 5, 2006.
30 “Something to Discover: The American Newspaper at a Crossroads,” editorial, Columbia Journalism Review, online, November/December 2005.
31 Michael Kinsley, “The Future of Newspapers.”
32 Editor’s Note, New York Times online, May 11, 2003.
33 Quoted in Seth Mnookin, “The Times Bomb,” Newsweek, May 26, 2003, p. 43.
34 Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1938), p. 182.
35 Quoted in Howard Kurtz, “Newsweek Apologizes: Inaccurate Report on Koran Led to Riots,” Washington Post online, May 16, 2005.
36 Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, quoted in Howard Kurtz, “Newsweek Apologizes…”
37 Frank Rich, “It’s All Newsweek’s Fault,” New York Times online, May 22, 2005.
38 Hafiz Mansour, a conservative Muslim intellectual, quoted in Kamran Khan and Pamela Constable, “Koran Allegation May Long Resonate: Anger Over Reported Desecration Persists Despite Retraction,” Washington Post online, May 18, 2005.
39 Eric Schmitt, Military Details Koran Incidents at Base in Cuba, New York Times online, June 4, 2005.
40 Cited in John Leland, “The Blair Witch Cult,” Newsweek, August 16, 1999, p. 47.
41 Quoted in Leland, “The Blair Witch Cult.”
42 Unnamed executive cited in David Ansen and Corie Brown, “A Hex Upon Hollywood: The Blair Witch Project Brew of Net Buzz and Low-Budget Thrills Has Tinseltown Spooked,” Newsweek, August 16, 1999, p. 50.
43 Anonymous source quoted in James Sterngold, “Debacle on the High Seas,” The New York Times, March 31, 1996, Sec. 2, p. 22.
44 Quoted in Sterngold, “Debacle on the High Seas,” p. 23.
45 Leonard Maltin, 2004 Movie & Video Guide, Plume, 2003, p. 899.
46 A.O. Scott, “The Game Concludes with Light and Noise,” The New York Times, November 5, 2003, p. E1.
47 Colin Covert, “The Matrix: Revolutions Spins Its Wheels,” The Minneapolis Star Tribune online, November 3, 2003.
48 A.O. Scott, “The Game Concludes…”
49 Jon Meacham, “Who Really Killed Jesus,” Newsweek, February 16, 2004, p. 53.
50 Jon Meacham, “Who Really Killed Jesus,” p. 51.
51 David Denby, “Nailed,” The New Yorker online, March 1, 2004.
52 Jami Bernard, “Gore’s the Crime of Passion,” New York Daily News online, February 24, 2004.
53 David Denby, “Nailed.”
54 Jason Silverman, “The Passion Inflames the Web,” Wired online, February 26, 2004.
55 Jim Mullen, “Hot Sheet,” Entertainment Weekly, January 2, 2004, p. 10.
56 Frank Rich, “Harry Crushes the Hulk,” New York Times online, June 29, 2003.
57 Karl Taro Greenfeld, “You’ve Got Music!” Time, February 1999, p. 58.
58 Andrew C. Revkin, “Righteous Babe Saves Hometown,” The New York Times, February 16, 1998, p. B1.
59 Janine Jaquet, “Indies’ Reservations,” The Nation, August 25, September 1, 1997, p. 10.
60 Scot Fisher, quoted in “A Note of Fear,” The Economist, October 31, 1998, p. 68.
61 Neil Strauss, “A Bogey Band to Scare Parents With,” The New York Times, May 17, 1997, p. 13.
62 Chris Heath, “The Love Story of Marilyn Manson,” Rolling Stone, October 15, 1998, p. 37.
63 Eric Boehlert, “Helter Skelter,” Rolling Stone, January 21, 1999, p 22. The editor’s name is Craig Marks.
64 Michael Hirschorn, quoted in Eric Boehlert, “Helter Skelter,” Rolling Stone, January 21, 1999, p. 22.
65 Ronald G. McNeil Jr., “This $40 Crank-up Radio Lets Rural Africa Tune In,” The New York Times, February 16, 1996, pp. A1.
66 Regis Philbin, quoted in Jim Jerome, “Love That Tender!”, People, November 22, 1999, p. 74.
67 Bill Carter, “Final Answer: Quiz Show Put in ABC Lineup,” The New York Times Online, December 3, 1999.
68 Bill Carter, “A Million Reasons for Striking Revival of the Quiz Show,” The New York Times Online, November 14, 1999.
69 Bill Carter, “A Million Reasons…”
70 Bill Carter, "Stand Aside, CNN. America's No. 1 TV Export Is -- No Scoffing, Please -- 'Baywatch,'" The New York Times, July 3, 1995, p. 41.
71 Paul Talbot, president of the Fremantle Corporation, which sells the international rights to the series, quoted in Bill Carter, "Stand Aside, CNN…”
72 Bill Carter, "Stand Aside, CNN…”
73 Elias Levy, chief technology officer for SecurityFocus.com, quoted in Matt Richtel, “Yahoo Attributes a Lengthy Service Failure to an Attack,” The New York Times Online, February 8, 2000.
74 Po Bronson, “Robin Hood Didn’t Do It,” The New York Times, February 13, 2000, Sec. 4, p. 4.
75 Jennifer Granick, quoted in Bronson, “Robin Hood Didn’t Do It.”
76 “Hacker Attacks on the Internet,” Editorial, The New York Times, February 11, 2000, p. A30.
77 And possibly because they never read Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, in which the Yahoos are a race of boorish brutes.
78 Alan Cohen, Vice President of Airespace, a Wi-Fi provider, quoted in Thomas L. Friedman, “Is Google God?” The New York Times, June 29, 2003.
79 Friedman, “Is Google God?”
80 Robert Wright, the author of Nonzero, a book about the technologically integrated world, cited in Friedman, “Is Google God?”
81 Perhaps the most glaring example of the Internet’s matchmaking prowess, but one the author chooses not to dwell on, is the case of the German man who found someone who wanted to be killed and eaten. At his trial the man testified that he had been in touch with hundreds of willing victims. See “Prosecutors Plan Cannibal Appeal,” CNN.com, January 30, 2004, at http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/01/30/germany.cannibal/.
82 Jennifer Eagan, “Love in the Time of No Time,” The New York Times Magazine online, November 23, 2003.
83 According to comScore Networks, which monitors consumer behavior on the Internet, as cited in Jennifer Eagan, “Love in the Time of No Time…”
84 Jennifer Eagan, "Love in the Time of No Time…"
85 David Brooks, “Love, Internet Style,” The New York Times online, November 8, 2003.
86 “FTC Says Identity Theft, Online Fraud on the Rise,” Reuters News online, January 22, 2004.
87 Quoted in Ariana Eunjung Cha, “Viruses, Phishing and Spam Threaten Future of the Internet, Washington Post online, July 3, 2005.
88 Gerard Baker, “What Katie Did Next: Why Do They Care So Much?”, Times (UK) Online, April 10, 2006.
89 “Katie Couric’s Years of Liberal Tilt,” Media Research online, updated April, 2006, available at http://www.mediaresearch.org/projects/couric/welcome.asp.
90 “With Today Host’s Record of Silence on Conservative Falsehoods, Couric Chided Dean for Accurate Statement,” Media Matters for America online, posted January 26, 2006, available at http://mediamatters.org/items/200601260003.
91 Kara Gavin, “U-M Study: Katie Couric's Colonoscopy Caused Cross-Country Climb in Colon Cancer Checks,” University of Michigan Health Systems press release, July 14, 2003, available at http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2003/couric.htm.
92 Joe Gandelman, “The Significance of Katie Couric's Move to CBS News,” blog article April 6, 2006 at http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1144303629.shtml.
93 Geoff Keighley, “The Secrets of Drudge Inc.,” Business 2.0 online, April, 2003.
94 Initial reports stated that the hospital Lynch had been rescued from was a heavily guarded military facility. These early reports added that during the original ambush Lynch had held off her attackers until her M-16 had run out of ammunition, and that she had been both shot and stabbed in the battle.
Once Lynch returned home, a different story emerged. She had tried to fire her weapon during the attack, but it had jammed. She never got off a shot, and she killed no Iraqis. She had been neither shot nor stabbed. Her injuries, though extensive, were the result of the crash of her military vehicle. And witnesses at the hospital from which she had been rescued insisted that there were no enemy soldiers there at the time of the rescue. In fact, Iraqi medical personnel explained that they had taken excellent care of Lynch, keeping her safe and well, buying her orange juice with their own money, and bringing in clothes for her from their homes.
These discrepancies mattered little to the viewing public. Lynch’s true story was exciting enough. The Iraqi soldiers had indeed abandoned the hospital, but the rescuers had no way of knowing that. Whether they met resistance or not, it was a heroic action. And Iraqi soldiers had nearly executed Lynch before they abandoned the hospital, and at least one of her fellow soldiers had been executed while handcuffed. And more importantly, Jessica Lynch had become a symbol of the hope America had for the safe return of all her sons and daughters on military duty.
95 “Gallup: Confidence in Media at All-Time Low,” Hollywood Reporter, June 11, 2005.
96 Breeanna Hare and C.C. Song, “Report: Trust in Journalism Has Hit All-Time Low,” Michigan Daily online, March 17, 2005.
97 Quoted in Katharine Q. Seelye, “Survey on News Media Finds Wide Displeasure,” New York Times online, June 27, 2005. The Pew telephone survey of 1,464 Americans was conducted from June 8 to June 12, 2005.
98 Patrick D. Healy, “Believe It: The Media's Credibility Headache Gets Worse,” New York Times online, May 22, 2005.
99 Tyler Pulis, quoted in Kelly Rohrs, “T-shirt Giveaway Promotes Acceptance,” The Chronicle online, April 15, 2003, www.chronicle.duke.edu.
100 Leila Nesson, as quoted in Kate Zernike, “Fashion Statement: Fighting Homophobia? A Fine Idea,” The New York Times online, January 18, 2004.
101 Leila Nesson, in Kate Zernike, “Fashion Statement…”
102 Leila Nesson, in Kate Zernike, “Fashion Statement…”
103 Lucas Schaefer, quoted in Andrew Rapp, “A Fine Sentiment for Duke Gays,” Bay Windows online, January 29, 2004, www.baywindows.com.
104 The T-shirt effort was not without controversy. Some students questioned whether the slogan ignored lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people, while others did not approve of the implication that being gay required anyone's approval.
105 Eric Dexenhall, “Runaway Spin Cycle Washes Dirty Laundry,” Insight on the News, Sept. 21, 1998, p. 28.
106 Robert L. Dilenschneider, “Spin: Can It Save You or Sink You?” Vital Speeches of the Day, December 1, 1999, p. 123.
107 Dilenschneider, “Spin.”
108 Arthur E. Rowse, “How to Build Support for War,” Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 1992. Available at www.cjr.com.
109 Alex Bogusky, a partner in the ad firm Crispin Porter & Bogusky, quoted in Rob Walker, “Consumed: Poultry-Geist,” The New York Times Magazine online, May 23, 2004.
110 Joe Sharkey, “Beach Blanket Babel: Another Reason to Stay at the Pool,” The New York Times, July 5, 1998, Sec. 4, p.2.
111 Mike Lyon, quoted in Joe Sharkey, “Beach Blanket Babel.”
112 Linda Yablonsky, "Wasted Beauty," The New York Times, May 27, 1997, p. A17. Yablonsky, a novelist, is a former heroin addict.
113 Infobeat news item at www.infobeat.com, May 10, 1999.
114 Walter Goodman, “Curbing Jennys and Jerrys Without Curbing Rights,” The New York Times, May 13, 1999.
115 Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 1997.
116 Judy McGrath, group president of MTV Networks, quoted in Bill Carter and Richard Sandomir, “Halftime Show Fallout Includes F.C.C. Inquiry,” The New York Times online, February 3, 2004.
117 A senior league official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, quoted in Carter and Sandomir, “Halftime Show Fallout…”
118 Quoted in Studio Briefing online, March 10, 2004.
119 Adam Cohen, “Cyberspeech on Trial,” Time, February 15, 1999, p. 52.
120 Pamela Mendels, “Anti-Abortion Site Is Back Online,” The New York Times Online, Tuesday, February 22, 1999.
121 Mendels, “Anti-Abortion Site.”