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1. August 6, 2012 11:00 AM

   Behind Big Oil, the original big business

   A review of Steve Coll’s Private Empire

   By Gloria Dawson

   Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power | By Steve Coll | Penguin Press HC | 704 pages, $36 When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2010, reporters were thrown into the deep end of the oil and gas industry—again. Twenty-two years earlier, another catastrophic spill shocked the country and changed the industry:...

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2. June 9, 2011 05:37 PM

   Heavy On Problems, Light On Solutions: The FCC Report Has Landed

   A quick look at the "disappointing" recommendations

   By Joel Meares

   In some three hundred and sixty odd pages, the FCC’s long-awaited Future of News “Information Needs of Communities” report outlines the crises facing our industry in excruciating, painstaking detail. Similar detail is lacking in its recommendations on how we dig out. That, at least, is likely to characterize many of the reactions to the whopper report that the FCC...

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3. October 29, 2010 03:12 PM

   Reboot

   An open letter to the FCC about a media policy for the digital age

   By Steve Coll

   Editor's Note: On June 9, 2011, the FCC's Future of Media Project released a report on the state of local accountability journalism and the governmental policies that foster or inhibit that journalism. In the November/December 2010 issue of CJR, Steve Coll penned this open letter to the report's lead author, Steven Waldman. Steven Waldman Future of Media Project Federal Communications...

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