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August 24, 2017
Disdain for Liberals Drives the Jewish Pro-Trump Right
It’s not the issues that matter; it’s the shared hatred.
Eric Alterman
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August 10, 2017
The World of Cable News Is Trump’s Reality
It’s not just the president’s tweets that are plagiarized from stupid arguments on Fox News, it’s his policy proposals too.
Eric Alterman
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June 15, 2017
Lying About Climate Change Is What Makes a Good Republican
Yet instead of holding the Koch brothers’ lackeys to account, the media says the GOP’s murder-suicide policy can be chalked up in part to “Democratic hubris.”
Eric Alterman
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May 31, 2017
Presidents Come and Go—the Legacy of Roger Ailes May Last Forever
The Fox News founder is dead. So why does the rest of cable news look like an army of his monsters?
Eric Alterman
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May 18, 2017
Why Does ‘The New York Times’ Have So Little Respect for Its Readers?
In the name of ideological diversity, the paper of record has hired a proud and deliberate purveyor of propaganda and misinformation.
Eric Alterman
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March 31, 2017
The Perception of Liberal Bias in the Newsroom Has Nothing Whatsoever to Do With Reality
Insisting without evidence that the mainstream media leans left, press critics do the right wing’s bidding.
Eric Alterman
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March 15, 2017
Fox’s Absurd Unreality Show Is Now Aided and Abetted by Trump’s Undersized Hands
How many times in the last two months have we all woken up and wondered what the hell Trump is going on about now?
Eric Alterman
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March 3, 2017
The Media’s Addiction to False Equivalencies Has Left Them Vulnerable to Trump
Decades of conservative efforts to work the press are paying off handsomely.
Eric Alterman
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February 14, 2017
The Trump-Bibi-Murdoch Love Triangle Puts Us All at Risk
Flouting the laws and sacrificing truth, the new mogul empire is a perpetual-motion machine fueled almost entirely on bullshit.
Eric Alterman
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February 2, 2017
An Actual American War Criminal May Become Our Second-Ranking Diplomat
Elliott Abrams spent the Reagan years abetting genocide—now, he has been floated as Trump’s deputy secretary of state.
Eric Alterman