Who is Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman (born January 14, 1960) is an American historian, journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator. He is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and the author of eleven books. From 1995 to 2020, Alterman was "The Liberal Media" columnist for The Nation. He is now a contributing writer there, and at The American Prospect, where he writes the newsletter, "Altercation".Early life and educationAlterman was born to a Jewish family in 1960. He was graduated from Scarsdale High School in the state of New York, which the United States Department of Education named as "one of the 144 exemplary schools to which others may look for patterns of success", and, according to U.S. News & World Report, is among the nation's top 100 for math and sc...Read Full Biography of Eric Alterman
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- To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
- Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
- Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
- More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.
- If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
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Peterbeinart: if israel actually made "its decisions by the will of its people"--meaning the people it controls, a majority of whom are palestinian--marwan barghouti would have a better chance of getting elected prime minister than bibiChemishalev: biden has finally figured out that netanyahu=trump, and trump=netanyahu
Patthomas1964: remembering that time that miles davis brought flowers to laura nyro at one of her concerts and also stopped by a recording session to possibly play but after listening, declared, “this is perfect, it doesn’t need me!”
Origivati: netanyahu’s son, yair, promoted the ultranationalist violent protest yesterday in tel aviv by sharing a video of protesters holding a flag of kach (israeli terrorist group) and shouting: leftists are whores. the son’s social media, the father’s policy.
Eric_alterman: cuny is the top engine of economic mobility in the us
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