Letters

By Our Readers, Eric Alterman & Alexander Cockburn

This article appeared in the September 27, 2004 edition of The Nation.

September 9, 2004

Link to original article.

PLUMB TUCKERED

Arlington, Va.

The Nation's website quotes praise for Eric Alterman as "the most honest...media critic writing today." It's hard to imagine how anyone would reach that conclusion after reading Alterman's August 30/September 6 "The Liberal Media" column, titled, "PBS Adds Insult to Inury," which heavily criticizes the PBS program I produce, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered. Honesty requires at least a modicum of accuracy, but Alterman fumbles again and again.

Subscriber Login

4 ISSUES FREE

Subscribe Now!

The only way to read this article and the full contents of each week's issue of The Nation online is by subscribing to the magazine. Subscribe now and read this article -- and every article published since for the past five years -- right now.

There's no obligation -- try The Nation for four weeks free.

.

About Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is also "The Liberal Media" columnist for The Nation, a senior fellow and "Altercation" weblogger for Media Matters for America, (formerly at MSNBC.com) in Washington, DC, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he writes and edits the "Think Again" column, a senior fellow (since 1985) at the World Policy Institute at The New School in New York, and a history consultant to HBO Films.

more...

About Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn has been The Nation's "Beat the Devil" columnist since 1984. He is the author or co-author of several books, including the best-selling collection of essays Corruptions of Empire (1987), and a contributor to many publications, from The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and the Wall Street Journal to alternative publications such as In These Times and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. With Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the newsletter and radical website CounterPunch, which have a substantial world audience. more...
Most Read

Issues »

Most Emailed

Issues »

Popular Topics

Blogs

» Campaign 08

Not "The Senator," But "That One" | McCain brings a creepy campaign cheapshot to the debate stage.
John Nichols

» The Beat

Obama v. McCain: "Fundamental Difference" on Health Care | Obama says it is a right, McCain says it's your responsibility.
John Nichols

» The Notion

Bush's Failing Financial "Surge" | How the Bush administration applied Iraq-style methods to its financial Katrina.
Tom Engelhardt

» Capitolism

Expert Failure | How the elites failed us.
Christopher Hayes

» Editor's Cut

Who's Watching the Fox at Treasury? | As the Bush administration outsources management of the bailout bonanza, how many more Goldman Sachs alums will fill these critical posts?
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» Act Now!

S. Dakota Goes After Choice (Again) | Meet the Rev. Steve Hickey. He believes that S. Dakota has been chosen by God to upend Roe v. Wade.
Peter Rothberg

» The Dreyfuss Report

Brits Say: We Can't Win in Afghan | More troops will make it worse, not better. They add: It's time to negotiate with the Taliban.
Robert Dreyfuss

» And Another Thing

Are You the Very Model of a Modern Vice-President? | Sarah's not the only one with a special skill.
Katha Pollitt