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	What Liberal Media ? - Eric Alterman
		Eric Alterman's book is written practically in response to two recent books about the alleged liberal bias of the American media, Bernard Goldberg's Bias and Ann Coulter's Slander, as well as the more general (and very loud) whiny and outraged cry from conservatives about that bias.
		Alterman means to explode the myth of a liberal media bias -- though as his book shows (as does a simple glance at the nation's most influential newspapers and magazines, television news and (political) talk shows -- and media ownership (and sponsorship) in general), there's not much to explode because there's not much there.
		Alterman is better on the bias of the editorial writers and boards, the talk show hosts, and the columnists than that of the actual news-gathering and -presenting media.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/media/alterme.htm (1590 words)

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		Eric Alterman is the media critic for MSNBC and the Nation.
		Alterman has suggested, for example, that it would have been a service to the nation had Rush Limbaugh gone deaf, and that David Horowitz is a "lunatic" who should suffer an early death.
		Alterman also provides services for the Center for American Progress (CAP), one of the seven principal organizations forming the administrative core of the Democrat Shadow Party.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1312 (223 words)

	Eric Alterman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eric Alterman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Eric Alterman is a (A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties) liberal American commentator, author and activist, and is currently a (additional info and facts about political) political columnist for (additional info and facts about The Nation) The Nation.
		Alterman's books include The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America, (additional info and facts about What Liberal Media?) What Liberal Media?
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/er/eric_alterman.htm (126 words)

	WorkingForChange-BuzzFlash interview: Eric Alterman
		Eric Alterman has emerged as one of the most astute and meticulous writers and thinkers with two essential books that explain the gap between the perception and the reality of George W. Bush's policies and how a compliant media enables a distorted image of Bush.
		Alterman is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University, and an affiliated faculty member in the magazine journalism program at New York University.
		Eric Alterman: I was talking about this issue of mass media at a book signing recently and how powerful it was when Life Magazine ran the photograph of a week's worth of soldiers who died in Vietnam.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=16592 (3213 words)

	Review of Eric Alterman's and Mark Green's The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America
		Finally, Alterman and Green should know that a central motivation behind NCLB is to give minority students an opportunity to achieve a quality education so that they can be successful in pursuit of their personal and professional goals.
		Alterman’s and Green’s third major charge is that the Bush administration’s foreign policy is deceitful and aggressive.
		Alterman and Green fail to understand that Bush is comfortable with government as long as government is efficient.
	hnn.us /articles/5119.html (2290 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: What Liberal Media?, by Eric Alterman, Hardcover
		Alterman and this book got a lot of attention when the hardcover edition was published, joining Al Franken and others in the liberal counterattack against conservative books alleging liberal bias in the media.
		Yet author Eric Alterman makes a strong case that, if anything, the media is dominated by conservatives who promote the findings of well-funded partisan think tanks, help book publishers who produce poorly researched ideological books, support incendiary TV and radio pundits, and abet editorialists who push the conservative line.
		Their goal, Alterman alleges, is to quash intelligent political debate and reduce complex arguments to simplistic fl and white alternatives - all in support of a right-leaning political agenda.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0465001769&itm=1 (1663 words)

	Eric Alterman Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		Eric Alterman is one of the country's leading experts on this topic.
		Alterman has also written Who Speaks for America?: Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy and It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen, which won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award.
		In a provocative, insightful and educational presentation, Eric Alterman argues that the American media has become so partisan and biased as to be almost untrustworthy.
	www.thelavinagency.com /college/ericalterman.html (500 words)

	Eric Alterman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eric Alterman is a liberal American commentator, Professor of English at Brooklyn College and an author who is currently a political columnist for The Nation.
		He is a Senior Fellow at the Center For American Progress.
		In October 2004, Alterman released When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences - a book version of Alterman's doctoral dissertation on lies of major consequence told by Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Alterman (188 words)

	My Froggie Popular Searches Eric Alterman, Photo Blogs and News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eric Alterman and Mark Green would like to thank Jenny Stepp for her research on this article...
		Eric Alterman is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, working primarily in the areas of media and democracy.
		Eric Alterman believes that American media are by and large biased toward Israel and against the...
	www.myfroggie.com /blogs/eric-alterman.html (631 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Alterman Fog Machine by George Shadroui
		Eric Alterman, media critic for MSNBC and the Nation, has an obsession about what he calls mythologies on the right, but a review of his work suggests that he is perfectly adept at making up myths of his own.
		Alterman’s transparent effort to skew reality is not limited to his preposterous claims of huge conservative influence in publishing or in the media.
		Alterman made his career with the book, Sound and Fury, in which he took the Washington "punditocracy" to task for its facile and shallow coverage of public policy and government.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7916 (1658 words)

	The Myths of Eric Alterman @ AMERICAN DIGEST
		When this new Alterman view surfaced a few days ago in his oh-so-provocatively titled MSNBC blog "Altercation" (Get it?), it proved to be a bit too much for his readers and for a few of the more heavily-armed bloggers.
		Alterman is a type you come across often in the New York Media World - the 'pleasing ideologue.' He doesn't please everyone, he doesn't have to.
		Alterman discovered that there was a large built in audience for his schtick; a deep need for someone who would insist that "liberal" was "objective" until the last ding-dong of doom.
	americandigest.org /mt-archives/004242.php (1016 words)

	Amazon.ca: When Presidents Lie: Books: Eric Alterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alterman, best known as a columnist for the Nation and author of What Liberal Media?, presents his case for what he calls four key lies U.S. presidents told world citizens during the 20th century.
		Alterman also allows little room for mistakes or plain incompetence on the part of the administrations in question.
		Alterman focuses on four key presidential lies: Franklin Roosevelt and the Yalta accords, John F. Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis, Lyndon Johnson and the second Gulf of Tonkin incident, and Ronald Reagan and Central America in the 1980s.
	www.amazon.ca /When-Presidents-Lie-Eric-Alterman/dp/0670032093 (878 words)

	Eric Alterman Dissembles about Andrew Sullivan
		Alterman claims that Krugman's "crime was to accept a $37,500 consulting payment from Enron years before he became a columnist and to disclose it when he first mentioned Enron." Not true.
		Alterman then proceeds to point out that William Kristol, Irwin Stelzer and other conservative writers also turned out to be on the Enron payroll and did not disclose their involvement either.
		Alterman conveniently leaves out the fact that Sullivan slammed Kristol, Stelzer and others as well as soon as those revelations were made.
	www.leftwatch.com /articles/2002/000036.html (517 words)

	Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » Weekly Jackass Number Nine - Eric Alterman
		Either (1) Alterman’s brain has collapsed under the weight of his hatred of Bush, (2) he is just phoning it in, tossing red meat to the faithful in the Michael Moore vein, or (3) he really is trying both to write well and with meaning, but is hopelessly delusional (see Chomsky, Noam).
		Alterman has elsewhere been accused of being an incredibly rude, pompous jerk (and worse), but that’s not surprising, and that’s not the reason I’m making him this week’s honoree.
		It is for your deliberate dishonesty, and your constant hyperbole, that I present you, Eric Alterman, with the 9th Weekly Jackass award.
	decision08.net /2005/02/02/weekly-jackass-number-nine-eric-alterman (904 words)

	Amazon.com: Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy: Books: Eric Alterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alterman still tends toward hyperbole and overstatement, but he nonetheless astutely points a finger at the superficial, vitriolic state of American political discussion and seeks to revive enlightened discussion in public discourse.
		For this new edition, Eric Alterman has made revisions throughout the book, with new material on the impact of the O. Simpson trial and the rise of MSNBC as well as on the Clinton scandals, the media's obsession with Monica Lewinsky, and the resulting conflation of investigative reporting with gossip.
		Alterman's relative objectivity is crucial because his topic is so important: public opinion in the United States is often shaped by clever phrases, memorable sound bites, and comfortable beliefs spouted into popular culture via broadcast or written media.
	www.amazon.com /Sound-Fury-Punditocracy-Eric-Alterman/dp/0801486394 (2750 words)

	Pejmanesque: NOW SUSTAINING MORE DAMAGE--ERIC ALTERMAN'S THEORIES ABOUT THE MEDIA
		Alterman argues that most reporters are conservative when it comes to economic issues.
		In Alterman's words, "The reporter, the editor, the producer, and the executive producer all understand implicitly that their jobs depend in part of keeping their corporate parents happy" (p.
		After all, Alterman is never the type to allow contradictions in his theory to ruin the propagation of the theory itself.
	www.pejmanesque.com /archives/006142.html (540 words)

	Amazon.ca: What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News: Books: Eric Alterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Much of Alterman's argument comes down to this: the conservatives in the newspapers, television, talk radio, and the Republican party are lying about liberal bias and repeating the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of truth.
		Alterman also observes that the center of American politics has shifted to the right in the last several decades, which he attributes to efforts by conservative think tanks and their financial backers.
		Eric Alterman completely shatters the myth of the "liberal media," which has become accepted as conventional wisdom pretty much accross the board, due to the tactics of conservative commentators and ideologues over the past three decades.
	www.amazon.ca /What-Liberal-Media-Truth-about/dp/0465001769 (1658 words)

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		Eric Alterman is the media critic for MSNBC and the Nation.
		Alterman has suggested, for example, that it would have been a service to the nation had Rush Limbaugh gone deaf, and that David Horowitz is a "lunatic" who should suffer an early death.
		Alterman also provides services for the Center for American Progress (CAP), one of the seven principal organizations forming the administrative core of the Democrat Shadow Party.
	www.discoverthenetworks.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1312 (254 words)

	Reason: Saturday the Rabbi Went Nuts: When Jews wax anti-Semitic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That's what I found myself thinking when I read a stunning recent commentary by author and pundit Eric Alterman on the British Muslim Council's decision to boycott the ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
		There is, for instance, the way Alterman not-so-deftly conflates Muslims with Arabs and Arabs with dispossessed Palestinians, and then declares Jews responsible for "much" of the suffering of Muslims everywhere.
		Alterman frets that his words will be "twisted beyond recognition," but it's hard to see how they can be twisted into something more indecent than they already are.
	reason.com /cy/cy020805.shtml (685 words)

	BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis
		Speaking of the promised land, don't miss Eric's attack on Andrew Sullivan and defense of Muslims who refused to commemmorate the liberation of Auschwitz.
		Alterman said on the air they were defending their country.
		Well, Eric, if I speculated that you might just be getting paid by the DNC because you are such a lockstep liberal, that would be wrong and irresponsible and certainly unjournalistic but it would not jeopardize your life.
	www.buzzmachine.com /archives/2005_01_27.html (2445 words)

	Pejmanesque: MORE ON ERIC ALTERMAN A
		MORE ON ERIC ALTERMAN A while back, Kevin Drum was able to snag an interview with Alterman to discuss the issues that Alterman raised in his book.
		Alterman's answers to Kevin's questions pretty much reflected the kinds of things he said yesterday, so I'm not going to repeat my analysis of those comments.
		I know that Kevin is a kindred spirit with Eric Alterman, but I think he would have been well-served to play devil's advocate on this one.
	www.pejmanesque.com /archives/000574.html (827 words)

	Eric Alterman, the guy who said he wished that Limbaugh had gone deaf, continues his tour of hate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I just was listening to Eric Alterman (if you want to know the full story of what he said about Limbaugh clikck the link.) He was just on a local Chicago talk radio show with a conservative woman named Eileen Byrn.
		Alterman is just pissed there is no LW star as big as Sean hannity or Rush.
		Alterman - besides wishing that Rush had gone deaf - stated that, it (the country) would be better without Rush Limbaugh and his 20 million listeners.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/841566/posts (2562 words)

	Amazon.com: What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News: Books: Eric Alterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alterman picks apart charges made by Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Sean Hannity, and others (even the subtitle refers to a popular book by former CBS producer Bernard Goldberg that argues a lefty slant in news coverage).
		Alterman tries vainly to ridicule the expose of liberal media bias by stating that there would have to be some sort of conspiracy in order for there to be a bias.
		Alterman provides a workmanlike demonstration of the blindingly obvious: the feeble 'infotainment' - devoid of content and analysis - that passes for news in the U.S. is not manipulated by an evil 'liberal' conspiracy after all.
	www.amazon.com /What-Liberal-Media-Truth-About/dp/0465001777 (2943 words)

	Eric Alterman, MSNBC, Bill Gates, and Media Ethics
		Now, one can argue that Eric Alterman is merely adding the personal touch with all this, letting the reader in on his feelings as he writes the column.
		For Alterman, the fact that Gates would focus his efforts on such a self-interested contribution is an indicator of (I'm tempted to say a parable for) the lack of charity in affluent America.
		So, in the end, Alterman does find his voice, to some degree, and is able to argue with passion that Gates' actions reveal something about a subject Alterman feels strongly about -- the failure of our society to help the poor.
	www.transparencynow.com /msnbc.htm (2620 words)

	(DV) GRFF500K: Eric Alterman is Out Cold
		Eric Alterman, as many of you know, is a drowsy-smarmy pundit-weasel -- a Bill O'Reilly for confused liberals.
		Alterman, like a thumb sucking brat, is still grasping on tightly (and desperately) to the notion that Nader stole the 2000 election from the clutches of Al Gore and the pathetic Democrats.
		It was nice not having to hear Alterman and other elite liberals whine about Nader spoiling the 2002 elections, when the Democrats lost control of the Senate all by their lonesome.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Sept04/GRFF500K0925.htm (435 words)

	The American Spectator
		So Eric Alterman shoves off in his leaky little vessel, its bold mission to neutralize the conservative attack on the liberal media by the likes of Bernard Goldberg and Ann Coulter.
		The GOP convention Alterman describes -- the one in which likable Ike, then more than three years out of the White House, lambasted the pundits, much to the delight of the assembled Goldwater delegates -- actually took place in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Four.
		But, sorry, Eric, the "new economy" -- though there ought to be a better name for it -- keeps on chooglin’; the burst bubble didn’t obliterate it.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=5302 (1611 words)

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