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	January, 2002 January 5, 2002 The military’s about-face on the book-turned-movie “Black Hawk Down”....And why a 35-year-old film about the Algerian revolution strikes a chord with modern audiences. January 12, 2002 Cartoonists get serious. At least the two on the program this week. And talks are underway for a new, Gay, cable channel. January 19, 2002 Enron, teen sex, HBO's Project Greenlight and more. January 26, 2002 The Somali reaction to Black Hawk Down - it’s not good. What’s in Mike’s pockets - it’s not pretty. And more.


	February, 2002 February 02, 2002 Kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl, the World Economic Forum, Super Bowl ads, trucker music and more. (But not that much more.) February 9, 2002 Minority casting calls - a token effort, or does it work? February 16, 2002 A reporter in Kosovo ponders the price of journalism--his stories probably cost some lives..... February 23, 2002 Is it a news magazine? Or is it a 30-minute commercial? A 9-month OTM investigation reveals how Alexander Haig’s World Business Review finesses the system to get paid advertising on public TV....


	March, 2002 March 1, 2002 When New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman used his op-ed to float a Mid-East peace plan by the Saudi Crown Prince, some asked whether he was using his column to play diplomat.... March 9, 2002 The axiom is ubiquitous: advertising directed at a younger audience, preferably aged 18-to-34, is always more profitable than advertising to older people. But is it true? March 16, 2002 International law hasn’t dealt much with media culpability for genocide - one has to go back to the Nuremberg Trial for the last case.... March 23, 2002 Off the record remarks, printed in the New York Times, embarrassed the Treasury secretary. Did anyone cheat? .... March 30, 2002 It’s Pulitzer season, a time, like the Oscars, when professional colleagues celebrate their peers, and smear them in unseemly campaigns for the prize....


	April, 2002 April 6, 2002 Covering Israel, painful video games and more April 13, 2002 More on freedom of the press in the Middle East, why Celene Dion crashes your computer and more April 20, 2002 The American press was quick to celebrate the apparent ousting of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez last weekend as a victory for democracy… until Chavez regained power.... April 27, 2002 Should presidential transcripts reflect what was actually said, or what the President meant to say? On the next edition of On the Media, we’ll find out who’s been editing the historical record. Also, it’s always wrong to lie in a report, but should a reporter deceive a source to get a story? All that plus the magical Alan Greenspan, on the next installment of NPR’s On the Media.