The Liberal Media

Eric Alterman

Pin the Terrorist on the Donkey (Presidential Election 2004, Media, Terrorism Targeting the US, Politics, Society)

It's impossible to pinpoint any single factor that determined the Democrats' defeat on election day, but a significant disadvantage that is going unremarked in the discussion of "God," "gays" and

Eric Alterman

Faith-based Journalism: The Refs Work Themselves (Presidential Election 2004, Politics)

Even though we've lived with it for more than thirty years now, it's hard not to marvel at the effectiveness of the right's campaign to intimidate, cajole and complain their way into favorable tr

Eric Alterman

Anchors Aweigh: The Refs Are Worked (Journalists and Journalism, Conservatives and the American Right, Media, Politics, Society)

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Eric Alterman

Dumb and Dumber (and Dumber Still) (Presidential Election 2004, Journalists and Journalism, Media, Politics, Society)

One problem with trying to write critically about this year's election coverage is that by choosing any single aspect of its manifold failures, one automatically does an injustice to the full sco

Eric Alterman

Bush's Useful Idiot (Political Figures, Presidential Election 2004, Politics)

Four years ago, Ralph Nader justified his third-party campaign on the grounds that the two parties represented nothing more than "Tweedledum and Tweedledee." As Americans die by the thousand in I

Eric Alterman

'We Lie. We Decide.' (Presidential Election 2004, Journalists and Journalism, Media Analysis, Politics, Society)

TIM RUSSERT: But, Senator, when you testified before the Senate, you talked about some of the hearings you had observed at the Winter Soldiers meeting, and you said that peop

Eric Alterman

PBS Adds Insult to Injury (Alternative and Independent Media, Society)

Click here to ask PBS CEO Patricia Mitchell to reconsider the network's new conservative slant.

CORRECTION: The Dow Jones Corporation's total revenue (not profit) topped $1.5 billion.

Eric Alterman