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Aspiring line

Why a young lefty writer let a conservative brahmin make a monkey out of him—over and over again

By Eric Alterman Mar 1, 2013 at 12:00 AM

When William F. Buckley Jr. died in February 2008, I happened to be in another of the endless arguments... More

The journalist and the politician

Former NYT reporter Arthur Krock had a long friendship with Joe Kennedy—and it showed in his coverage

By Eric Alterman Feb 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Arthur Krock, one-time bureau chief and columnist for The New York Times, is an abject lesson in the temporality of... More

The Girl Who Loved Journalists

Stieg Larsson’s posthumous gift to an embattled industry

By Eric Alterman Jan 4, 2012 at 06:00 AM

For a profession whose entire raison d’être is communication, American journalists sure have done a lousy job of explaining... More

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Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’

“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”

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Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything

The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy

How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”

Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement

Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation

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