Earlier this week
...mainstream news media and the thousands of jobs that have gone with it. Suddenly I felt very concerned about Jay Rosen, Eric Alterman and all the other tenured types who lecture on journalism? I mean, when all the American hacks are out of work and the...
...Glaser JD Lasica Danny Schechter Rory O'Connor Rebecca MacKinnon Evan Derkacz Cory Doctorow Jonathan Rintels Harold Feld Eric Alterman Jeff Chester Tim Porter Bunnie Riedel Chris Anderson Rex Sorgatz Bob Stepno Click on the "comments" link at the bottom...
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...the paper's journalistic mission. Though Mr Obama has done a good job, as all recent serious Democrats have done, of emphasising his belief in American virtues, his record and his programme suggest he is firmly in line with this wing of his...
...cynical about the gap between what politicians want you to think about them and what they really are. There's something about American politics - perhaps the constant need to raise money combined with the celebrity-mad media that covers them - that...
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...would be reporting it. Instead, they gather soundbites from a few nut cases who consider politics a form of therapy. Eric Alterman: Dana Milbank's coverage of Obama in the Washington Post has become a symbol of a press corps that is almost as the Bush Administration....
...Alterman helped to create my awareness of modern politics. His book, What Liberal Media, along with Blinded by the Right, the Clinton Wars, and Before the Storm, taught me more about the political system and how it really worked than anything I had ever...
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