If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – next year. – Eric Alterman
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality. – Eric Alterman
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. – Eric Alterman
More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful 70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun. – Eric Alterman
I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, Oh, you might want to read In Cold Blood because theyre talking about you for Capote, but the scripts with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment. So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain. – Toby Jones