US Condemnation of Press Restrictions Abroad Is Starting to Look Hypocritical US Condemnation of Press Restrictions Abroad Is Starting to Look Hypocritical
Here at home, those charged with protecting our press freedom are endangering it instead.
Aug 27, 2014 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
We’re Living in a Golden Age of Investigative Journalism We’re Living in a Golden Age of Investigative Journalism
Newspapers in America may be closing up shop, but muckrakers around the world are holding corrupt officials and corporate cronies accountable like never before.
Aug 26, 2014 / Anya Schiffrin
If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet the (1 Percent) Press If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet the (1 Percent) Press
Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on David Gregory's departure from Meet the Press.
Aug 20, 2014 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Defend Journalism That Speaks Truth to Power: From Ferguson to Washington Defend Journalism That Speaks Truth to Power: From Ferguson to Washington
The First Amendment is under assault. Americans must preserve “the freedom that allows us to verify the existence of all other freedoms.”
Aug 18, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols
How Media Passivity Is Service Journalism for the Powerful How Media Passivity Is Service Journalism for the Powerful
Eric on the latest books and CD's and Reed on media coverage of Ferguson, Missouri.
Aug 14, 2014 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Who’s Really to Blame for the Newspaper Industry’s Decline? Who’s Really to Blame for the Newspaper Industry’s Decline?
Did the massive media conglomerates that gobbled up almost all of the country’s dailies really have the public’s best interests at heart?
Aug 12, 2014 / Blog / Leslie Savan
Jezebel’s Porn Problem and the Price of Social Media Jezebel’s Porn Problem and the Price of Social Media
Jobs that demand constant social media interaction create different burdens for men and women.
Aug 12, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Goldberg
The High Price That Surveillance Costs the Press and Our Democracy The High Price That Surveillance Costs the Press and Our Democracy
Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on electronic surveillance.
Aug 5, 2014 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Why Is a Nice Network Like MSNBC Silencing Protest Over Pro-Israeli Coverage? Why Is a Nice Network Like MSNBC Silencing Protest Over Pro-Israeli Coverage?
Now that former MSNBC contributor Rula Jebreal has been canned for stating the obvious—that Israeli voices overwhelmingly outnumber those of Palestinians, including at MSNBC—will a...
Jul 24, 2014 / Blog / Leslie Savan
Don’t Know Much About History Don’t Know Much About History
The architects of our foreign-policy disasters would prefer we simply forget the past.
Jul 16, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman