Quotes by Eric Alterman

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America’s great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

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American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn’t be.

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Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

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Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

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As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

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But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

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Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

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Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast — give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.

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Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

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Quotes by Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman

America’s great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn’t be.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

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