Eric Alterman

Debate Disgrace

Eric Alterman on October 5, 2012 - 11:31 AM ET

My new Think Again column is called: How Conservatives Treat Media Bias (Hint: Confusingly)

My Nation column is called “Shut Up About the Jews Already...” I don’t exactly plan to do that myself, since I’m writing a book about these very same Jews, but in the narrow sense that I mean it, I do mean it.

A time out for Music and Good Causes:

Take the Cannoli...

Eric Alterman on September 27, 2012 - 3:42 PM ET

My new “Think Again” column is called “The Media and Climate Science: ADHD or Deliberate Deception?” It deals with the Murdoch empire, PBS in particular and you’ll find it here.

On the origns of Post-Truthism, continued

The term keeps getting more and more traction so here is the Chuck Colson example, and my adaptation of the term, from When Presidents Lie (Viking, 2004 Penguin, 2005):

A Candidate Who Takes Care of His Own

Eric Alterman on September 21, 2012 - 12:40 PM ET

My new “Think Again” column is called “Ignoring Poverty and Hunger,” and it’s about the media’s lousy coverage of the issue.

My new Nation column is called “The Problem of Conservative Intellectuals.” You can guess its subject.

Oh, and Katrina and I will be on a panel about the election with Tom Frank, moderated by Touré, at the Brooklyn Book Festival Saturday morning at ten. I think it’s in the library. I will be speaking, I’m pretty sure, at the Scarsdale Public Library on “The Cause” on October 2 at 8:00.

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Eric Alterman on September 13, 2012 - 4:27 PM ET

The intense pressure on mainstream journalists to stick to the same narrative cripples our ability to conduct robust democratic debate. Read more at my Think Again column this week, "Of Groupthink and 'Groupthink,'" here.

Now here’s Reed:

On Display, the Republican Party’s Empty Foreign Policy Toolbox

Post 'Fact-Checking': Fecklessness Squared

Eric Alterman on September 6, 2012 - 4:16 PM ET

My new "Think Again" column is called “The Mistaken Bias of The New York Times’s Public Editor” and it’s here.

My Nation column is called “The Washington Post's Feckless 'Fact-Check'” and it’s here.

Reed is on the case, as well.
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'Post Truth Politics,' Continued

Eric Alterman on August 31, 2012 - 11:01 AM ET

My new “Think Again” column is called “Think Again: The Color of Hollywood Is Green.” It is a critique of a lazy an misguided argument about Hollywood’s liberalism by New York’s Jonathan Chait and it’s here.

Since I did not post last week, I need to note that last week’s “Think Again,” is called “Political Dysfunction Summer Reading” and it’s here.

My most recent Nation column is “Paul Ryan: The Man Who Wasn't There,” here.
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'Is That You, Baby?'

Eric Alterman on August 17, 2012 - 11:26 AM ET

My new Think Again column is called “News Corp. Hacking Scandal Still Hiding in Plain Sight,” and it’s here.

It’s an attempt to call attention to the enormity of the Murdoch story, which is, in my opinion, is being insufficiently investigated.

While I was out of the country last week, my long and frightening (to me) investigation of the shape and scope a potential Romney presidency, published in The Nation, is here.
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Related Topics: Media Analysis | Conservatives and the American Right

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Forgive Those Who Press Pass Against Us?

Eric Alterman on August 10, 2012 - 12:03 PM ET

Reed here, Eric’s away on vacation this week, enjoying the warm Mediterranean sun, I’m told. But go read his long Nation article on what America might expect out of a “President Romney.” I warn you, however, that afterwards you might need a stiff drink, or another kind of diversion.

As such, here’s my favorite, probably overlooked, performance of these London Olympic Games so far. Yes, golden girl Abby Wambach can work the refs with the best of them and, sorry my friends from north of the border, but yes, your keeper had it coming. (Let’s just hope Wambach doesn’t start using these keen powers of persuasion for nefarious purposes, like being a political spokesperson, since it seems a certain campaign might be in the market for a new one quite soon.)

Now here’s, well, me.
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Not-so Patriotic Gore

Eric Alterman on August 3, 2012 - 11:20 AM ET

My new Think Again: Thoughts on Milton Friedman and Gore Vidal.

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Believe it or not, I watched “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion” this morning on Blu-ray as I typed this. It’s a perfect movie to watch if you’re my age and you are hardly paying attention, and the most perfect role my friend Janeane Garofalo ever had, given who she is and what she thinks. (Though I watched "Jimmy Plays Berkeley" to get the sugar out of my system, afterward.) I got it because the studio released a bunch of "anniversary editions" on Blu-ray, but the one I really wanted, I didn’t get, which was "High Fidelity". They also released “Gross Pointe Blank” which is also pretty great, together with “Adventures in Babysitting" and "The Preacher’s Wife” which you will have to judge for yourselves.
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Cover Me

Eric Alterman on July 27, 2012 - 11:55 AM ET

My new Think Again column is called “Bad News About the News” and it’s here.

My Nation column is called “Let's Just Say It: The Republicans AND the Media Are the Problem” and it’s here.

I did a list of my favorite Springsteen covers for David Remnick to accompany his 17,000 (or so) word Bruce profile and that’s here. I did it kinda fast, so I forgot to suggest these two gems. And also the wonderful acoustic “I Don’t Want to Go Home” he did with Steve in Jersey in 1996, here.
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