Point, No Counterpoint: The Conservative Beat Point, No Counterpoint: The Conservative Beat
The New York Times editors do a service by covering right-wingers: It would make sense to similarly cover progressives. Why don't they?
Dec 7, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Liar. ‘Liar?’ Liar. ‘Liar?’
Bush's contempt for the truth and for those whose job it is to find it has created an existential crisis for mainstream media.
Nov 22, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
Time to Abolish the Editorial Page? Time to Abolish the Editorial Page?
Do newspapers really need special pages for political pronouncements, stentorian tone and candidate endorsements?
Nov 9, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
The End of Times? The End of Times?
Journalism's in crisis, crushed by Wall Street and tarnished by a failure of nerve. As newspapers die and fake news proliferates, who will provide reliable information vital to a f...
Oct 26, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
No ‘Comments’ No ‘Comments’
How can the MSM maintain they hold themselves to higher standards than the Drudge-driven political blogosphere when they ape its most irresponsible practices?
Oct 12, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
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