Blaming Arik Last Blaming Arik Last
Marvin Kalb, executive director of the Washington office of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, diagnoses an anti-Israel tilt in the US media,...
Oct 12, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
No Defense No Defense
How the New York Times convicted Wen Ho Lee.
Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert Scheer
Stop, Thief! Stop, Thief!
Neoconservatives are serial grave-robbers. Back in the early eighties, Norman Podhoretz tried to claim both Ronald Reagan and George Orwell as part of his meshuggeneh mishpocheh....
Sep 28, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Walker in the Imagined City Walker in the Imagined City
Ben Katchor had been a bit of a cultural phenomenon for nearly a decade before he became a MacArthur fellow--a first for a cartoonist--this summer; is this the beginning of comic-s...
Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle
The Threat to the Net The Threat to the Net
Open access to the broadband Internet is essential if we are to insure that a diverse range of voices has a chance of reaching out to citizens in the new era of high-speed communic...
Sep 25, 2000 / Jeffrey Chester
First Amendment for the Rich? First Amendment for the Rich?
At stake is whether the twenty-first-century First Amendment will be a protector of the powerful or a resource for the weak and disfranchised.
Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Burt Neuborne
Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler! Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler!
First, the obvious part.
Aug 24, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Persecution of Wen Ho Lee, Redux The Persecution of Wen Ho Lee, Redux
Over the last two years, various government and congressional officials adroitly exploited leaks to the media to defame Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos nuclear scientist.
Aug 7, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Schmoozapalooza 2000 Schmoozapalooza 2000
So ABC is arranging its convention coverage around an exhibition football game. NBC is giving us just the acceptance speeches.
Jul 27, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Can Truth Outlast a Green Light for Media Mergers? Can Truth Outlast a Green Light for Media Mergers?
Should the corporate owners of newspapers like the Los Angeles Times or the New York Post be allowed to own television stations in the same city?
Jul 24, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer