A good analysis of the subliminal race campaign being used against Barack Obama, focusing on the now-infamous "presumptuous" column by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank. Its only shortcoming is that it was somewhat outdated by the time it was published.

Alterman is spot on. The evidence he presents, while a small subset of that available, proves his points. The so-called "liberal" media is no more. Instead it is a wholly owned subsidiary of the big corporations that prop up the GOP.

A near-perfect capsule of what's happened to corporate media and the reason reporters like Eric Alterman, and alternative news sources like The Nation, are becoming more important to our knowledge basis. Hopefully, with writers like Mr. Alterman, intelligence won't be a disability anymore. Dana Milbank should be shamed off the Post but when FoxNews can win a lawsuit over the ability to lie to their viewers with impunity, there maybe no hope for corporate media and we'll be on our own to search for the truth. Eric Alterman and The Nation is a good place to begin the search.

"limitlessly corrupt, pathologically dishonest and lawless presidency" would seem to fit Clinton better than Bush. This guy lives in his own fantasy world. His article is so partisan that it sinks into silliness. Why does he think a product of Chicago politics is so wonderful. Chicago politics actually are corrupt. And this guy is a professor of journalism!

Alterman clearly lays out Milbank's abuse of selective quoting. Why hasn't the Washington Post issued an apology or a complete retraction?

This couldn't have been written any better and Alterman and "The Nation" are about as good as it gets. I was stunned by what Milbank wrote and think a lot of other people were too. Alterman should have pointed how conservative the Washington Post is now although the Post and the New York Times and other formerly great publications have sunken to new lows as far as political news is concerned. Watergate would have never become a big story if these newspapers were like they are now and Nixon would have ridden out his corrupt and criminal administration. Every time I read the worlds "liberal media" I get a good belly laugh. The quasi fascists who own virtually all of the major media are disgrace to a free country, or maybe should ... More »