From banning books to dictating curricula, Republicans are the real cancelers, not that the MSM recognizes that.
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: A Great Voice, and a Good Friend, Leaves Us
Eric Boehlert was the model media critic—and much, much more.
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Altercation: CBS News Hires a Prevaricating Trumpoid
Because that’s the kind of thing that TV ‘news’ does.
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Altercation: The Wokeness Problem Pales Alongside the GOP’s War on Democracy
Though Times editorialists absurdly assert otherwise.
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Altercation: The Dark Money Funding a Times Columnist’s Magazine
Just who is paying Bret Stephens to edit Sapir?
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Altercation: How Did So Many People Quickly Become Experts on Ukraine and Russia?
The media (both mass and social) are full of freshly minted authorities on Eastern Europe and the complexities of warfare.
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Altercation: My Adventures With RT
In 2015, Putin’s flacks mistakenly brought me to Moscow to celebrate Russia Today. It didn’t quite work out the way they’d intended.
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Altercation: Social Media and White Supremacist Terrorism
A movement that’s both nationalist and global, and largely uncoordinated
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Altercation: Right Answers Celebrated; Speaking Truths Not So Much
Jeopardy! champion Emma Saltzberg’s commitment to Israel-Palestine justice draws the ire of the organized American Jewish establishment.
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Altercation: The Times Goes AWOL on Amnesty and ‘Apartheid’
‘Apartheid’ is how an Amnesty International report last week characterized Israeli rule. Every group under the sun reacted, but there was no story in the Times.