Eric Alterman

99 and a Half Just Won't Do...

Eric Alterman on October 7, 2011 - 12:18 PM ET

My new "Think Again" column is called “The Era of the 'One Percent'” and it’s here.

There’s a Le Monde Diplomatique podcast about my new article in that paper, here.

Oh, and this for The Guardian on "Occupy Wall Street."

Too Bad to Be False

Eric Alterman on September 29, 2011 - 3:16 PM ET

Greeting Altercators, Reed here. Eric's off today for Rosh Hashanah, but his latest column for The Nation on Obama's by now all too familiar willingness to abandon liberal principles (at his own electoral peril), can be found here.

Too Bad to be False
by Reed Richardson

Set Phrases to Stun

Eric Alterman on September 23, 2011 - 11:57 AM ET

My new “Think Again” column is called “Israeli/U.S. Right-Wing Conspire to Undermine Israeli/U.S. Security in the Middle East” and you can find it here.

Alter-reviews:
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Not Just Another Day (At War)

Eric Alterman on September 16, 2011 - 10:37 AM ET

My new “Think Again” column is called “CNN: America’s Easiest 'Ref?' (Just Ask the Tea Party)” and it’s here.

My Nation column is called “The Problem of Media Stupidity” and it’s here.

Reliable Sources?

Eric Alterman on September 8, 2011 - 5:13 PM ET

In my new “Think Again” column, I apparently explain that “former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller’s explanation of why he supported the Iraq war doesn’t inspire much confidence in our punditocracy.” It’s “It’s Not What Bill Keller Believed About Iraq—It’s Who” and you can read it here.

Now here’s Reed:

It’s Better to Rust Than to Burn Out

Eric Alterman on September 6, 2011 - 10:26 AM ET

My new “Think Again” column is called “War is Hell” and it recalls the rosy, imaginary picture that liberal hawks created for themselves as they rode the caboose for the Neocon wartrain. It’s as close as I plan to come to all this wallowing in the 9/11 and it’s here.

My Nation column is called “The Second Death of John Maynard Keynes,” and it’s about, you know, everything, and it’s here.

Alter-reviews:

'My Friend Came to Me With Sadness in His Eyes'

Eric Alterman on August 26, 2011 - 11:54 AM ET

My new “Think Again” column is called “Kochs: Life Is Good.” It’s about how much fun it must be for people like Charles and David Koch to give money to organizations that promote their profits and ideology rather than pay their fair share of taxes, and it’s here.

I don’t know what my Forward column is called but it uses the Jennifer Rubin kerfluffle to shine a light on what a raw deal the Palestinians get in the US media and how perhaps—far be it from me to suggest this—it might have something to do with the prominence of so many Jews in the punditocracy and so few Arabs.

Too late for my column but in plenty of time for your weekend reading, CAP has just published an incredibly detailed report called "Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" and you can find it here.

Clearing Away the Brush

Eric Alterman on August 18, 2011 - 3:44 PM ET

My new “Think Again” column is called “Remember Bush’s Vacation” and it’s here.

Thoughts I had while reading the first three articles in The New York Review of Books at lunch today, (and one later one).

1) David Thompson’s article on Cary Grant is a complete waste of time. So Cary Grant’s daughter has written a worthless book about her dad. Big deal. Who cares? Why devote so much space to saying so over and over? If you want to know about Cary, who is my favorite actor of all time, read Ben Schwarz in The Atlantic, but even more than that, read Pauline Kael’s 1975 New Yorker essay, “A Man From Dream City” which is among the most thrilling magazine articles I’ve ever read in my life. And it’s here.

Crazy, Stupid, Republicans

Eric Alterman on August 12, 2011 - 11:56 AM ET

My new Think Again column is called “NPR: Still Bending Over Backward.” It is critical of NPR but also of NPR’s critics and it’s here.

My new Nation column is called “How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People” and it’s here.

Reed is away this week so I need to create an excuse for this post. I don’t really feel like it, so:

Say 'Shabbat Shalom' Jennifer

Eric Alterman on August 5, 2011 - 10:19 AM ET

My new Think Again column is a follow-up to my previous one focusing on journalism at the Washington Post and its problem with right-wing bloggers. It’s called “Conservatives vs. Good Journalism: The Continued Contamination of The Washington Post” and is described as follows: “'Ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton’s lame and self-indicting defense of conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin’s prejudice-laden post on the Norway attacks provides yet another sign of the demise of the paper’s journalistic standards,' writes Eric Alterman.” You can find it here.

Following up on my column is a post by Ron Kampeas at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency who has a reader who notes that the situation was actually worse than I described. Rubin posted that Friday night at 9:07 about the debt deal and thus could easily have corrected her false one. The same friend has scoured Rubin's archives and found other Sabbath postings, which means she appears to have lied to Pexton, who failed to do his homework here as well. Kampeas concludes: “making Jewish observance an excuse when it clearly is not—well, it rankles. There's way too long a history of Jews having to take risks to observe Shabbat for it to be used as a bad faith out.” Let’s hope (but not expect) that the Post takes some action and both Pexton and Rubin apologize to readers.

Mr. Pexton, the Post Ombudsman, can be reached at 202-334-7582 or at ombudsman@washpost.com for those with additional questions. For more on this, see “The Mail” below.