The stories of the guy who snitched on Dan, and the Mets who still can’t hit
Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, an award-winning journalist, and the author of 12 books, most recently We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, November 2022). Previously, he wrote The Nation’s “Liberal Media” column for 25 years. Follow him on Twitter @eric_alterman
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Altercation: Lonely Are the Brave (Also the Sane)
Reporting on a Republican who nailed QAnon, the Times actually gets its description of the right right.
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Altercation: An Anti-Semite Who’s Anything But
Yet another fiction in the right wing’s echo chamber
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Altercation: Republicans ‘Quietly Pursue’ Traditional Policies, Says Politico
Like what? Insurrection?
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Altercation: White House Reporters Now Drafting Scripts for Joe Biden to Read
They see their job as primary participants in a game of childish playacting, rather than as news gatherers.
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Altercation: Media Blaming BIDEN for Dearth (or Death) of Bipartisanship?
A little acknowledgment of Republicans’ intransigence and criminality would be welcome.
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Altercation: A Times Scoop: Republicans Don’t ‘Advance Working People’s Economic Interests’
Don’t believe it? The Grey Lady has it on good authority.
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Altercation: When the Right Cancels It, It Ain’t Cancel Culture
How’s a bigoted loon to know what’s good and what’s not these days?
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Altercation: Limbaugh, and Associated Outrages
Among which, those in mainstream media who’ve kowtowed to him
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How Peretz Undermined Liberalism
As editor-in-chief of The New Republic, Martin Peretz spread the virus of liberal self-hatred.
