Stories by Eric Alterman
In a post-Bush world Karl Rove and friends have just as deadly a job, only these days you'll find them posing for the media as pundits.
Posted on Apr 10, 2009
For the likes of Foxman, any action Israel takes is de facto defensive and solely in the interests of peace, no matter how warlike.
Posted on Feb 4, 2009
A serious debate focused about torture, wiretapping, food prices, world hunger... oh, wait. That's the kind of fairy tale they don't do at Disney.
Posted on May 1, 2008
The Lancet study that estimated 655,000 Iraqis killed since the US invasion of 2003 was based on some of the most solid research methods possible, but that didn't stop the American press from trying to say it wasn't so.
Posted on Oct 20, 2006
Time's lineup of columnists betrays its readers and distorts the public discourse in a Limbaugh-like direction.
Posted on Jun 2, 2006
A new right wing-funded 'study' employs comically unsound criteria to rate the media.
Posted on Jan 19, 2006
New proof of federal agents snooping in local libraries underscores how little we know about the investigations and arrests being done in the name of "security."
Posted on Jun 23, 2005
At the latest press conference some in the media seemed to be pushing the president on his stem cell policy.
Posted on Jun 3, 2005
Eric Alterman responds to allegations made by
Time's John Cloud, author of the controversial Ann Coulter profile.
Posted on Apr 21, 2005
The new WMD investigation is a farce designed to shift responsibility from the people who demanded corrupt intelligence to serve their ideological obsessions to those who were forced to provide it.
Posted on Apr 8, 2005
Bush's new FCC chairman looks a lot like his old FCC chairman; but he'll soon be forced to decide whether he's a free-marketeer or a local values champ.
Posted on Mar 24, 2005
While the FCC cracks down on four-letter words, the FEC eyes bloggers.
Posted on Mar 14, 2005
To Russert and much of the permanent Washington establishment, the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat – or at least one who's willing to act that way.
Posted on Feb 11, 2005
The Armstrong Williams scandal is the latest, and most promising entry, in right-wing pundits' race for the bottom. So why are the networks still inviting them on?
Posted on Jan 14, 2005
While the New Republic presented a much-needed liberal national security strategy, their effort amounts to a sophisticated version of More of the Same.
Posted on Jan 3, 2005
As long as the 'liberal media' charge carries weight in the public imagination, reporters are open to being blacklisted by powerful politicians seeking to avoid scrutiny.
Posted on Dec 3, 2004
If you think Tucker Carlson is bad, wait till you see what the Wall Street Journal has in store for public television viewers like you.
Posted on Aug 17, 2004
Conservative commentators are now admitting to have erred in supporting the war, but they are not the only ones who failed to ask the right questions.
Posted on May 20, 2004
The Bush White House, through 'friendly' appointees and heavy-handed research, has lost touch with the scientific community: 'science isn't something to be politicized based on who's elected.'
Posted on Feb 27, 2004
One of the most powerful tools in the conservative arsenal is the phony accusation of liberal bias.
Posted on Feb 14, 2003
Although the President's inability to stick to the truth is blindingly obvious, journalists just can't bring themelves to call him a liar.
Posted on Nov 11, 2002
The intensity of the media's anti-Gore obssession is more than just bizarre. It openly violates all strictures of fairness and objectivity.
Posted on Oct 7, 2002
Ann Coulter's very existence as a public figure is insulting to our collective intelligence. Yet her slanderous screed garners praise from even liberal outlets.
Posted on Sep 12, 2002
Corporate ownership is steadily eliminating reporting in favor of entertainment. If this is the end of news as we know it, why aren't prominent journalists making more noise?
Posted on May 13, 2002
The conflict in the Middle East is about warring narratives, each making its own claim to land and history. But in the United States, it is mostly the Israeli perspective that gets attention.
Posted on Apr 2, 2002
The McLaughlin Show is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. But most viewers may want to hold a wake instead.
Posted on Feb 25, 2002
