Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman, was born in Queens, N.Y. and educated at Cornell, Yale and Stanford universities. He is presently a columnist for The Nation, Worth Magazine, MSNBC.com and Intellectualcapital.com, and a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University. He has taught media studies at Hofstra University and New York University, lectured widely, and contributed to numerous national magazines and scholarly publications in the United States and Europe. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, (Cornell University Press, 1998); and It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (Little Brown, 1999), winner of the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. His next book will be a study of the effects of presidential deception, tentatively entitled Lying in State, and due out in 2001. Alterman lives in New York City with Diana Silver and their daughter, Eve Rose. His e-mail address is ericalterman@intellectualcapital.com.

Previous articles include:

8/3/00- The Party's Over

      Eric Alterman has had it. This will be the last Republican convention he attends.

 

7/13/00- He Got off Easy

      Eric Alterman criticizes those who are rushing to defend Boston Globe columnist, Jeff Jacoby.

 

6/29/00- Long Live Big Media!

      Will Rupert Murdoch win again? Eric Alterman examines the FCC's relationship with media conglomerates.

 

6/1/00- Why No Gun Ri Won't Die

      Eric Alterman examines the perils of in-depth reporting in today's hyper-media age.

 

5/5/00- Twenty Years of Making the News -- For Better, or Worse

      Eric Alterman celebrates -- and laments -- "Nightline's" contribution to television journalism.

 

4/20/00- Listening to America's ‘Little Brothers’

      Eric Alterman dissects European opposition to the Americanization of the world.

 

3/16/00- Primary Lessons

      Do you want to be a "do-it-yourself" pundit? Eric Alterman wraps up the primary season.

 

2/17/00- Stop the Killing

      If you ask Eric Alterman, it is long past time for a federal moratorium on the death penalty.

 

1/13/00- A Bad Deal for Democracy

      Eric Alterman assesses the fallout from the AOL-Time Warner deal.