Host Alex Jones discusses coverage of the 1996 campaign's 'Black hole' period between primaries and convention with Richard Berke (national political correspondent, The New York Times), Tom Brazaitis (Washington Bureau Chief, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)) and William Wheatley (vice president of news, NBC), and the big media stories of the week (from the media's possible complicity in the death of child pilot Jessica Dubroff to the firing of ABC Radio's controversial talk show host Bob Grant) with Jonathan Alter (senior editor/columnist, Newsweek) and Nancy Woodhull (executive director, The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center).

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