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Who's Behind The New Yorker's "Official" Story Of The Raid That Killed Bin Laden?

Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com. August 17, 2011.

On closer inspection, the widely-celebrated New Yorker cover story on the death of Osama Bin Laden raises more questions than it answers.

For the New Yorker, Women Are Invisible: Ms Magazine Pushes Protest

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. January 15, 2011.

December and January issues of the New Yorker had almost no content by women. Why do publications so often fail to include female voices?

Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change? A Response to The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell

Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, AlterNet. October 8, 2010.

What if anything is the potential contribution of web-based "social networking" to social movements and social change?

Why Do Mainstream Media Insist on Belittling Progressives?

Kai Wright, TheNation.com AlterNet: Politics. January 5, 2010.

Guess parroting right wingers wasn't enough...

Proof That Texas Executed An Innocent Man Could Turn Tide On Death Penalty

Lucile Malandain, Agence France Presse. September 8, 2009.

Opponents of the death penalty hope the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas, will be a turning point towards abolition.

Texas Executed An Innocent Man

The Innocence Project, AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 31, 2009.

The tragic case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was falsely accused of setting a fire that killed his children -- and then executed for it.

The New Yorker Magazine's Strange Embrace of Hate-Spewing Shock Jock Michael Savage

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. August 3, 2009.

A recent puff piece in the New Yorker legitimizes Savage's hate crusade.

Hey Mr. Cheney, What About Those 'Executive Assassination Squads'?

John Nichols, The Nation. March 25, 2009.

As long as the former VP is on the interview circuit, why not invite him to Capitol Hill to explain these frightening allegations?

Seymour Hersh: "After 9/11 We Became a Different Country"

Faisal Abbas, Asharq Al-Awsat. December 25, 2008.

The New Yorker's star reporter discusses Abu Ghraib, the "war on terror," and why U.S. reporters don't pay enough attention to the Arab press.

Donna Brazile: "I'm Not Going to the Back of the Bus!"

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. October 10, 2008.

An impassioned speech on racial politics from last week's New Yorker festival.

New Yorker Cover Spotlights McCain's Houses, Foreclosure Crisis

Amanda, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. September 8, 2008.

An attempt to even the playing field after their controversial Obama cover, perhaps?

America's Invisible Rich

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. August 25, 2008.

Politicians can't seem to see any wealthy people when deciding whom to tax.

Laura Flanders: Vanity Fair's Retort to the New Yorker's Obama Cover Misses the Mark

Laura Flanders, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. July 24, 2008.

If Vanity Fair wanted to flip the New Yorker cover on the GOP, they'd have to portray the media's lies about the candidate. Not the true stuff.

AlterNet's Weekly Zeitgeist: Phony Drilling, Afghan Escalation, Never-Ending Financial Crisis and Much More

Don Hazen, AlterNet. July 18, 2008.

From Bush's oil hoax to the New Yorker's sorry attempt at satire, our Zeitgeist list tracks the progressive issues of the week.

The Dark Side: Jane Mayer on How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

Eric Umansky, ProPublica. July 17, 2008.

The investigative reporter who connected the dots on detention, rendition and torture, discusses her new book, The Dark Side.

The New Yorker, the Obamas, and the Rest of Us

AlterNet Staff, DELETED AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2008.

You can let the New Yorker's staff know what you think of their misfired "satire."

The Bad Frame: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right's Dirty Work?

Don Hazen, AlterNet. July 14, 2008.

This week's New Yorker cover image of the Obamas is shocking in the racism and gross stereotyping that is built into its supposed satire.

Seymour Hersh: Bush 'Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing' in Iraq

Charles Hawley, David Gordon Smith, Der Spiegel. October 1, 2007.

Interview: Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh talks about Bush's Vietnam, Iran's nuclear ambitions and how the US press failed the First Amendment.