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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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Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Not Now, Not Ever, Has Fox News Been Journalism
And it’s a dangerous delusion to misclassify it as such.
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Altercation: Fox News Keeps Getting Foxier
Like right-wing politicians, they’re primarily interested in catering to the most extreme parts of their base.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century
George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menand’s new tome on America in the Cold War era.
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Altercation: Why Journalism Isn’t Really Covering the Threat of Fascism
Objectivity has no bias in favor of the truth.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Altercation: The Piketty Impact
On the economic-inequality discussion, profound. On capitalism per se, not so much.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Court Says Bill Barr Lied. Why Didn’t the Media?
Also, who quotes Elliott Abrams as an authority on human rights?
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Altercation: Paid to Lie
On the boundless and hugely remunerative cynicism of Rupert Murdoch and his faux-news fabricators
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Altercation: Damn the Author, but Don’t Cancel the Book
On the new, deficient Philip Roth biography and the apparently sociopathic biographer
