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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.
- Eric Alterman
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#Inequality
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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.
- Eric Alterman
#Anger
#Easy
#Street
#Understand
#Well
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.
- Eric Alterman
#Care
#Democracy
#Enough
#News
#People
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
- Eric Alterman
#Live
#Personality
#Technology
#World
The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
- Eric Alterman
#Campaign
#Could
#Deception
#More
#Nation
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
- Eric Alterman
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#New
#Political
#Politics
#True
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
- Eric Alterman
#Doing
#Everything
#Matter
#Possible
Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.
- Eric Alterman
#Information
#Mistakes
#Place
#Policy
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.
- Eric Alterman
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#News
#People
#Political
#Strive
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.
- Eric Alterman
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#New
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#Places
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.
- Eric Alterman
#Anything
#Consensus
#Morality
#Without
One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
- Eric Alterman
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#Battle
#Change
#Sea
#Victory
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
- Eric Alterman
#History
#Never
#Patterns
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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.
- Eric Alterman
#Back
#Facts
#Ignore
#Legacy
#True
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.
- Eric Alterman
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#Degree
#Government
#Situation
Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.
- Eric Alterman
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#System
#Us
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.
- Eric Alterman
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#Debate
#Hope
#Media
#Point
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.
- Eric Alterman
#America
#Believe
#Genuine
#Imagination
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