Of Optics and Objectivity: How Journalism Is Failing Our Democracy Of Optics and Objectivity: How Journalism Is Failing Our Democracy
Eric on "The Beatles in Mono" and Reed on how the emphasis on optics skews our democratic priorities.
Sep 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
In Covering Obama’s ISIS Speech, Can the Media Move Beyond ‘Optics’? In Covering Obama’s ISIS Speech, Can the Media Move Beyond ‘Optics’?
Does it matter what necktie you wear when you declare war?
Sep 10, 2014 / Leslie Savan
Beyond Janay Rice: Lessons From a State Where Domestic Violence Runs Rampant Beyond Janay Rice: Lessons From a State Where Domestic Violence Runs Rampant
An in-depth look at a South Carolina report on domestic violence is at the center of a national conversation.
Sep 10, 2014 / Dani McClain
Stand Up for Internet Freedom Stand Up for Internet Freedom
We're running out of time to fight for net neutrality.
Sep 10, 2014 / NationAction
Their Technology Outstripped Their Maturity Their Technology Outstripped Their Maturity
An embarrassing look back at 2014 from aboard the Starship Enterprise.
Sep 9, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Don’t Overstate the Threat ISIS Poses Katrina vanden Heuvel: Don’t Overstate the Threat ISIS Poses
The Nation’s editor appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to discuss press coverage of ISIS and whether some members of the media are participating in war-mongering.
Sep 8, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who Needs ‘Meet the Press’? Who Needs ‘Meet the Press’?
Insider Chuck Todd tries to bring outsider edge to the Sunday show.
Sep 8, 2014 / Leslie Savan
Beltway to Obama: More Fear, Please Beltway to Obama: More Fear, Please
Eric on this week's concerts and Reed on the Beltway Media, American Exceptionalism and foreign policy.
Sep 5, 2014 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Why Firing David Gregory Won’t Change ‘Meet the Press’ Why Firing David Gregory Won’t Change ‘Meet the Press’
The Sunday classic is chasing ratings off a cliff.
Sep 3, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman
Arthur Danto’s Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Terrorism’ of Jeff Koons Arthur Danto’s Critique of the ‘Aesthetic Terrorism’ of Jeff Koons
A solo Koons exhibition, Danto wrote in 1989, was “a vision of an aesthetic hell.”
Sep 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Back Issues and Arthur C. Danto