Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman is Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the World Policy Institute, as well as a columnist for The Nation and a fellow of the Nation Institute. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for JStreet. He is a former senior fellow at Media Matters for America.

Alterman's blog, "Altercation," first appeared at MSNBC.com, where he was "perhaps the first writer to get a blog on a mainstream national news site," Editor & Publisher reported September 11, 2006. MSNBC dropped the blog in September 2006, and it was picked up by Media Matters, where it appeared until December 2008. Altercation now appears at The Nation's website.


 * Advisory Board, Creative Coalition

Books by Eric Alterman

 * Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America, Viking, March 2008, ISBN 0670018600.
 * When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences, Viking, September 2004, ISBN 0670032093.
 * The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (with Mark J. Green), Viking, February 2004, ISBN 0670032735.
 * What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News, Basic Books, February 2003, ISBN 0465001769.
 * It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen, Little, Brown, October 1999, ISBN 0316038857.
 * Who Speaks for America?: Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy, Cornell University Press, October 1998, ISBN 0801435749.
 * Sound & Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics, HarperCollins, 1992; Cornell University Press, 2000, ISBN 0801486394.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Center for American Progress
 * JStreet
 * Media Matters for America
 * Think tanks
 * World Policy Institute

External resources

 * Altercation blog at The Nation
 * Altercation blog at Media Matters for America
 * Article archive at The Nation
 * Article archive at the Center for American Progress

By Eric Alterman

 * "Perle Interrupted," The Nation, March 20, 2003. re Richard N. Perle.
 * "The Chickenhawks' War Comes Home to Roost," MSNBC, March 31, 2003.
 * With Mark Green, "The New Scopes Trials," The Nation, March 8, 2004.
 * "Meet the New FCC Boss," AlterNet, March 24, 2005. re Kevin J. Martin
 * "Bush's War on the Press," The Nation, April 21, 2005 (May 9, 2005 issue). re "war on" phraseology
 * "Found in the Flood," The Nation, posted September 8, 2005; September 26, 2005 issue. re Hurricane Katrina
 * "Think Again: Spun Dizzy," Center for American Progress, September 7, 2006.
 * "9/11: America Attacked Twice (And P.S., I'm Fired)," The Huffington Post, September 11, 2006. Also posted on the Altercation Blog on MSNBC website.
 * Eric Alterman & Danielle Ivovy, "Blogosphere to Mainstream Media: Get Off the Bush," Center for American Progress, May 8, 2009.

Other articles

 * "Mainstream Blog Pioneer Alterman Axed by MSNBC," Editor & Publisher, September 11, 2006.