Eric Alterman

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

— Eric Alterman

Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition…

— Eric Alterman

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to…

— Eric Alterman

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials…

— Eric Alterman

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its…

— Eric Alterman

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

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the…

— Eric Alterman

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

— Eric Alterman

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even…

— Eric Alterman

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

— Eric Alterman

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

— Eric Alterman

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

— Eric Alterman

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it…

— Eric Alterman

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to…

— Eric Alterman

By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful…

— Eric Alterman

The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that…

— Eric Alterman

“Journalists usually treat anything as true if someone in a position of ostensible authority is willing to say it, even anonymously (and…

— Eric Alterman

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

— Eric Alterman

The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military,…

— Eric Alterman

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

— Eric Alterman

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

— Eric Alterman

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

— Eric Alterman

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

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information…

— Eric Alterman

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…

— Eric Alterman