Eric Alterman Quotes

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• Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse…
• If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to…
• The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent…
• America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
• American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
• Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
• As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
• Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
• Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
• Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.
• For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
• Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.
• Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.
• 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…

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