Nathan says:
>And I just don't buy that Alterman spends much time bashing other lefties.
>Cockburn spends a far larger portion of his column space bashing other
>progressives, admittedly because they are to his "right", but also because
>they are not as car-loving, militia-consorting or otherwise as authentic as
>he is. Hitchens of course loves nothing better than to bash other folks.
I
>can go down the list of columnists with their pet peeves with other
>progressives.
-I could do without all three of them.
Fair enough, but engaging in personal attacks of any kind is pretty much the bottom-line requirement to be a pundit in the media. As folks from all parts of the spectrum agree, the hardest bias of the media is towards controversy and conflict. Nothing like running feuds to fulfil that.
-- Nathan