aboutEric AltermanColumnist
Eric Alterman currently writes the "Stop the Presses" media column for The Nation and the "Altercation" web log (www.altercation.msnbc.com) for MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has been a contributing editor to, or columnist for: Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal and the Sunday Express (London). His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award.