Eric Alterman quotes - page 2

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter. (Eric Alterman)
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda. View quote
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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. View quote
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If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.' View quote
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To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. View quote
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Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers. View quote
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Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. View quote
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American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. View quote
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Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us. View quote
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Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. View quote
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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. (Eric Alterman)
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. View quote
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Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do. View quote
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Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence. View quote
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There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. View quote
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President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that. View quote
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Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore. View quote
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This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. View quote
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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. View quote
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