Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman (born January 14, 1960) is an American historian, journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator. He is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and the author of eleven books. From 1995 to 2020, Alterman was "The Liberal Media" columnist for ''The Nation''. He is a contributing writer there, and at ''The American Prospect'', where under a two-year grant he wrote the newsletter, ''Altercation'', until January 27, 2023. In his farewell newsletter column Alterman stated that he opened a Substack page also entitled, ''Altercation'', on January 21, 2023, and that although publication plans were only in development, he was accepting free subscriptions. Provided by Wikipedia