American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly news magazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
“Journalists usually treat anything as true if someone in a position of ostensible authority is willing to say it, even anonymously (and… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed,… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
