‘The Latest in Expert Speculation’: CNN and the Phenomenology of Breaking News ‘The Latest in Expert Speculation’: CNN and the Phenomenology of Breaking News
Eric with the latest reviews and Reed on the media’s coverage of the missing Malaysia Air Flight 370.
Mar 25, 2014 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Inside the Most Unregulated Labor Marketplace That Has Ever Existed Inside the Most Unregulated Labor Marketplace That Has Ever Existed
Nation author Moshe Z. Marvit has been awarded this month’s Sidney Award for casting “a light on a previously obscure, but profoundly exploited class of workers.”...
Mar 12, 2014 / Nation in the News / Press Room
DOJ Drops Most of the Charges Against a Journalist Indicted for Sharing a Link DOJ Drops Most of the Charges Against a Journalist Indicted for Sharing a Link
Barrett Brown’s attorneys warned that the charges against their client had chilling implications for free speech rights.
Mar 5, 2014 / Blog / Steven Hsieh
Edward Snowden Is Not a ‘Traitor’ and Glenn Greenwald Is Not an ‘Accomplice’ Edward Snowden Is Not a ‘Traitor’ and Glenn Greenwald Is Not an ‘Accomplice’
If anything, reporting on the NSA’s overreach has revealed just how dangerous to our freedoms the agency’s surveillance practices really are.
Feb 18, 2014 / Robert Scheer
What Ailes the Media? What Ailes the Media?
A biography by Gabriel Sherman clarifies the Fox impresario’s role in his network’s deceptions.
Feb 5, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman
Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars
Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good for the movement? And whose movement is it?
Jan 29, 2014 / Feature / Michelle Goldberg
David Brooks Shows His Hand on ‘Inequality’ David Brooks Shows His Hand on ‘Inequality’
The conservative NYT columnist steers the conversation away from economics and toward “behavioral” terrain.
Jan 22, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman
Are We Living in the Golden Age of Journalism? Are We Living in the Golden Age of Journalism?
With the rise of the Internet, we’re no longer simply passive readers at the mercy of someone else’s idea of how to organize the world.
Jan 21, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt
Remember ‘Benghazi’? Remember ‘Benghazi’?
Wild Republican accusations have been debunked—but still they continue.
Jan 8, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman
Village People Village People
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Double Down entertains, but its contempt for liberalism shows on almost every page.
Nov 13, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman