Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman
Eric Altermanis an American historian, journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator. He is currently CUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, the media columnist for The Nation and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, as well as the author of ten books. His weblog named Altercation was originally hosted by MSNBC.com from 2002 until 2006, moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008, and is now hosted by The Nation. He writes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBlogger
Date of Birth14 January 1960
CountryUnited States of America
Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.
Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.