A Meta-Read Is a Better Read A Meta-Read Is a Better Read
The notion that the function of journalists is to explain "the truth" is about as quaint as America's participation in the Geneva Conventions.
Sep 28, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Lying About 9/11? Easy as ABC Lying About 9/11? Easy as ABC
Why did the network humiliate its news division, ignore historians and insult Americans with a 9/11 docudrama that it knew was a tissue of lies?
Sep 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
All Governments (and Some Journalists) Lie All Governments (and Some Journalists) Lie
Democracy demands that journalists tell the truth. The success of liars like Bob Novak and Ann Coulter is a greater threat to America than a truck full of terrorists bent on doing ...
Aug 31, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Neocon Dreams, American Nightmares Neocon Dreams, American Nightmares
Four wars at once? Led by this crew? Are the people who run this country, enabled by neo-con pundits, dangerously out of their minds?
Aug 10, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Times Is Us The Times Is Us
In wartime, you lose the luxury of choosing your allies: The Bush Administration's attacks on the New York Times are attacks on us all.
Jul 13, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Uses and Abuses of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi The Uses and Abuses of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a really bad guy. But the Bush Administration's armchair warriors mythologized him into a self-fulfilling prophecy of insurgent terror.
Jun 21, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Truth Is for ‘Liberals’ Truth Is for ‘Liberals’
Five years into the Bush Administration, the press corps still can't figure out how to handle the White House's primary media management tactic: lying.
Jun 8, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Time Is on Their Side Time Is on Their Side
Time magazine's new managing editor has inherited an editorial model that's under siege and a pundit lineup that tilts squarely to the right.
May 30, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Three Liberal Lives Three Liberal Lives
In praise of three giants of American liberalism: John Kenneth Galbraith, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr.
May 11, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Bush’s Other War Bush’s Other War
The FBI's bid to examine Jack Anderson's papers is the latest battle in the Bush Administration's war against the media.
Apr 27, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman