What Liberal Media?

Informationen zum Autor Eric Alterman currently writes the Stop the Presses" media column for The Nation and the Altercation" web log (www.altercation.msnbc.com) for MSNBC.com. In recent years! he has been a contributing editor to! or columnist for Worth! Rolling Stone! Elle! Mother Jones! World Policy Journal! and The Sunday Express(London). His Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992/2000)! won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999)! won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. He is also the author of Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy(1998)! and When Presidents Lie: Deception and Its Consequences! which is forthcoming. 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! Alterman received his B.A. in History and Government from Cornell! his M.A. in International Relations from Yale! and his Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford. He was born in Queens! New York and lives with his family in Manhattan. He can be reached online at www.whatliberalmedia.com. Klappentext Widely acclaimed and hotly contested! veteran journalist Alterman's ambitious investigation into the true nature of the U.S. news media touched a nerve and sparked debate across the country. Eye-opening! witty! and thoroughly and solidly researched! "What Liberal Media?" is required reading for media watchers. Zusammenfassung "Bold, counterintuitive, and cathartic... Alterman is ready for a bar fight, and he comes out swinging."New York Times Book Review

Autorentext
Eric Alterman currently writes the Stop the Presses" media column for The Nation and the Altercation" web log (www.altercation.msnbc.com) for MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has been a contributing editor to, or columnist for Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and The Sunday Express(London). His Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992/2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. He is also the author of Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy(1998), and When Presidents Lie: Deception and Its Consequences, which is forthcoming. 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, Alterman received his B.A. in History and Government from Cornell, his M.A. in International Relations from Yale, and his Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford. He was born in Queens, New York and lives with his family in Manhattan. He can be reached online at www.whatliberalmedia.com.

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Widely acclaimed and hotly contested, veteran journalist Alterman's ambitious investigation into the true nature of the U.S. news media touched a nerve and sparked debate across the country. Eye-opening, witty, and thoroughly and solidly researched, "What Liberal Media?" is required reading for media watchers.

Zusammenfassung
"Bold, counterintuitive, and cathartic... Alterman is ready for a bar fight, and he comes out swinging."New York Times Book Review