If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

Major Works
Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992 1993 2000) ISBN 978-0-8014-8639-5
Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (1998) ISBN 978-0-8014-3574-4
It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999 2001)
What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (2003 2004) ISBN 978-0-465-00177-4
The Book on Bush: How George W. Alterman has also been a contributing editor to ELLE and a regular columnist for Worth and the London Sunday Express. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC.

January 14 1960) is an American English teacher historian journalist author media critic blogger and educator. com from 2002 until 2006 moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008 and is now hosted by The Nation. Eric Alterman (b.