MER
April 1996
What the Lawyers Cut
Closed mid-March 1996 · On stands late March 1996
The Front
The Interview That Aired Twice
60 Minutes airs its full Jeffrey Wigand tobacco interview after CBS lawyers had cut it for broadcast
Index of the Thaw
Days above forty degrees, potholes reported nationwide, the going rate for a gallon of regular unleaded
Index of the Chart
Weeks at number one, cassette-single sales holding on against the CD, radio adds for a record that will not leave the top of the chart
The Essay
The Lawyer in the Newsroom
What corporate counsel is for, and what it costs a network to let counsel edit the news
The Foreign File
Yeltsin's Long Campaign
A dispatch on the ailing Russian president's uphill re-election push against a resurgent Communist opposition
The City
Subject: Spring sublets and the going rate downtown
The Back
A Book the Size of a Decade
Infinite Jest is published
Appointment Television, Thursday Nights
A note on why a certain hour of NBC comedy has become something close to a national ritual