In Gawker - Posted 12 weeks ago

There's no news in Denver. At least, no news that couldn't be reported by watching it on C-Span from the comfort of home. So what to do? Report on wha...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA - Posted 18 weeks ago

Eric Alterman writes:I don't have a better idea, except to repeat, again, the following: the loss of daily newspapers is a significant threat to the f...

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In Fresh Intelligence - Posted 18 weeks ago

Deep liberal thinker Eric Alterman sums up, blog-style, the last two week's worth of newspaper news in a column for the Nation. It's like a nice recap...

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In Gawker - Posted 27 weeks ago

Arianna Huffington's new book - Right Is Wrong - is as partisan a piece of political writing as any during this political season. The subtitle says it...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 27 weeks ago

Not many people could host a book party at a hotel in mid-town during a driving rain storm and expect a good turn-out. But a lot of people aren't Ari...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA - Posted 34 weeks ago

As if Windows Contacts killed the Rolodex. It's just so much more complicated than that. Eric Alterman's piece in the New Yorker details the demise of...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 34 weeks ago

This week's New Yorker contains a long, long piece on the Huffington Post by Eric Alterman. Recommended. Sample excerpt: Surrounding the news article...

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In Gawker - Posted 34 weeks ago

Arianna Huffington came to this internet with little more than a URL, a dream and a whole lot of connections. Now, according to Nielsen online, the Hu...

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In Gawker - Posted 1 year ago

Every once in a while, we like to get a tour of a real sewer and the drama surrounding the publication of 'Washington Post' media critic Howard Kurt...

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In Jossip - Posted 1 year ago

The Nation's Eric Alterman spends countless hours (and upwards of 550 words) refuting Portfolio blogger (and Radar alumnus) Jeff Bercovici's charge th...

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In Gawker - Posted 1 year ago

An actual radio listener says that this morning on WNYC, Wonkette founder and current Washington editor for Time.com Ana Marie Cox hinted that she mig...

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In Gawker - Posted 1 year ago

Eric Alterman got a promotion at CUNY. Now he's a Distinguished Professor, at least when he's not busy being whiny, arrogant, annoying, incorrect, ent...

In Jossip - Posted 1 year ago

Verbal grudge-match heats up between staffers at the Today show and Good Morning America, yielding doozies such as Gay-MA and Today? More li...

In Gawker - Posted 1 year ago

Nation screeder Eric Alterman, generally acknowledged (by us!) to be the biggest putz on the left or the right, has taken to the internets to explain ...

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In Gawker - Posted 1 year ago

Professional liberal gasbag Eric Alterman was arrested in New Hampshire on Sunday at the Democratic debates. He was charged with criminal trespass, af...

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In Jossip - Posted 1 year ago

It turns out that when Eric Alterman isn't busy feuding with Ana Marie Cox over who's the bigger liberal, he's earning paychecks as media columnist fo...

In Jossip - Posted 1 year ago

Well isn't today's New York Observer just cuuuute! The salmon weekly has given both members of media power couple Ana Marie Cox (Time) and Chris Lehma...