On Monday, the editors of Vanity Fair posted Mark Bowden’s May 2009 write-around on Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. on the Web. The story, which was Mr. Bowden’s first for the magazine, made quite an impression on the small—and ever-shrinking—community of media reporters and pundits who obsess about The New York Times, not to mention the Read More
DENVER—On Aug. 25, The New York Times’ chief political reporter, Adam Nagourney, was looking for a pair of seats for an interview in a sawdust-ridden tent in the parking lot of Denver’s basketball arena that served as the paper’s media workspace.
The Times wound up bringing so many staffers to this Read More
Nation columnist and prolific debater Eric Alterman is the new Judith Miller! Or, maybe not. At the Democratic debates last night, Alterman was apparently arrested (briefly!) for "criminal trespass" at an open bar.
From CNN.com:
Goffstown, N.H. police said Alterman was in the spin room as a guest of the Creative Coalition and went Read More
Yesterday, Gawker and Time.com’s Washington editor, Ana Marie Cox, setting the scene at television host John McLaughlin’s brunch the day after the White House Correspondents’ dinner.
As is his wont, Mr. Alterman fired back via the Huffington Post calling out Gawker on not having had anyone there to see the argument Read More
Eric Alterman, Mediekritiker
“In any case,” wrote Eric Alterman on the Huffington Post yesterday, “I am about as low-level a celebrity as exists anywhere. And yet whenever [sic] see my name on P6, it’s always something nasty and often something inaccurate.”
Here are Eric Alterman’s three Page Six mentions:
March 28, 2004: Fresh Read MoreWED. March 24
1 On Wednesday, March 17, CNBC talk-show host Dennis Miller tried out a bewildering new trick on his audience: He stopped hosting the show while on the air.
Others have done it. Usually it follows long years on the air, after great tension and exhaustion, as when Jack Paar walked off, Read More
Eric Alterman, the liberal author of the new book What Liberal Media? , was standing in the middle of Michael’s restaurant, the liberal-media hangout on West 55th Street in Manhattan. After a warm embrace with lefty novelist E.L. Doctorow, he took a seat.
Mr. Alterman reeked of success. Forty-three years old. Four books under his Read More
