The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Eric Alterman: When serious media outlets treat the presidential election as theatre, they reduce politics to the level of reality TV shows
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
(Photo: Eric Alterman (Deborah Copaken Kogan)) Eric Alterman's most recent book is "Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America." Eric Alterman's October 2008 Playlist: I don't actually have any playlists on my iPod. The aspect of my iPod I love the most — and few people love any inanimate objects the way I [...].
elementropy (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Can't any wingnut condemn Gordon Liddy? Of course not. Isn't that right, Senator McCain? Anyway, the following is from Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? : Every single one [of the most popular radio talk-show hosts] is a movement conservative with politics located at the extreme far-right end of the political spectrum. So far to the right is the general pack of talk-show hosts that,...
corrente (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Eric Alterman (The Nation): During the 1980 presidential campaign, Republicans latched onto a theory that enjoyed virtually no support among professional economists: so-called "supply-side" economics. Its promoters were a discredited economist named Arthur Laffer and a self-described "wild man" editorialist at the Wall Street Journal named Jude Wanniski. Laffer had drawn up the doctrine...
