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The Liberal Media

Eric Alterman

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

The Fox News owner resorted to an anti-Semitic canard in attacking alleged media bias against Israel.

The Romney campaign’s self-delusion was only possible because of its MSM enablers.

Even now, our understanding of that fraught moment is built on falsehoods and myths.


How right-wing Jewish organizatons misrepresent both the views and the influence of American Jews.

As Mitt Romney’s campaign descends into increasingly indefensible terrain, a few right-wing stalwarts are still standing by their man.

Afflicted by the elite journalistic disease of “on-the-one-handism,” the MSM’s supposed arbiters of truth—like the Post’s Glenn Kessler—can't make sense of this presidential contest.


Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City...