>Not that the basic argument isn't true for the high-circulation newspapers,
>but the scorecard stacks the deck by including pundits from National Review,
>Frontpage, The New Republic, and other smaller circulation weeklies, while
>ignoring pundits from progressive magazines other than The Nation (and those
>got including only because the authors appear in other publications like
>Vanity Fair or the New York Press.) Commondreams.org has articles from a
>number of columnists who get decent syndication who criticize Israel. Throw
>in cartoonists like Tom Tomorrow and Ted Rail who get decent circulation and
>the punditocracy does shift a bit out of the down-the-line Israel support
>column.
>
>There is sometimes a tendency on the left to marginalize progressives in the
>media in order to overmake the point about the marginalization of progressive
>voices. The reality is bad enough without overdoing it.
The list was compiled by Eric Alterperson, who works for The Nation, and who no doubt considers it on the respectable side of the border of respectability. He's made it clear that he writes not for a popular audience, but for the political and opinion-making elite. That elite probably doesn't share EA's evaluation of The Nation, but don't tell him! Congressional staffers and White House aides probably don't read Commondreams, but they do read NR and TNR.
Doug