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This article is about The newsletter. For other uses, see Counterpunch.CounterPunch is a biweekly newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical attitude". It includes a website, updated daily, which contains much more material not published in the newsletter.
Running six to eight pages in length, the CounterPunch newsletter primarily publishes commentaries by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair with regular contributions by a wide range of others. It is noted for its critical coverage of both Democratic and Republican politicians and its extensive reporting of environmental and trade union issues, American foreign policy, and the Israeli-Arab conflict. CounterPunch considers itself to carry on the tradition of muckraking journalism of earlier investigative journalists such as I.F. Stone and George Seldes.
History
The newsletter was established in 1994 by the Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter Ken Silverstein. He was soon joined by the journalists Cockburn and St. Clair. In 1996 Silverstein left the publication and Cockburn and St. Clair have since been co-editors.
The website, which is updated on a daily basis, is supported by revenues generated by the newsletter, as well as fundraising activities and commissions received on click-through sales from Amazon.com.
Contributors
Notable contributors to CounterPunch have included Robert Fisk, the late Edward Said, Tim Wise, Ralph Nader, M. Shahid Alam, Tariq Ali, Ward Churchill, Alan Cabal, Sofia Perez, Lila Rajiva, Peter Linebaugh, the late Tanya Reinhart, Noam Chomsky, Frank "Chuck" Spinney and Alexander Cockburn's two brothers, Andrew and Patrick, both of whom write on the Middle East, Iraq in particular.
Some paleoconservative writers like Paul Craig Roberts and William Lind also contribute to CounterPunch. The site regularly publishes contributions from those with left-wing views, such as Lenni Brenner, Fidel Castro, and the late Stew Albert, as well as younger authors such as Diane Christian, Joshua Frank, Norman Finkelstein, Ron Jacobs, Gary Leupp, Cynthia McKinney, Kelly Overton and David Price.
Praise
The Village Voice has said that CounterPunch "outshines all its competitors." Articles that appear in CounterPunch are often republished by or generate related articles in Harper's (of which Ken Silverstein is an editor), The Nation (where Cockburn is a columnist), the National Journal, the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, The Texas Observer, and several other publications.
Criticism
Franklin Foer of The New Republic and political commentator Steven Plaut have written articles charging CounterPunch of being biased against Israel and anti-semitic. Plaut cites popular columnist Gilad Atzmon, "I'm not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act."
CounterPunch has also been criticised by socialist activists Tony Greenstein and Roland Rance of Jews Against Zionism, for its practice of publishing articles by writers such as Gilad Atzmon and Israel Shamir which they describe as "blurring the distinction" between Zionism and Judaism, and failing to publish responses to these articles.
Notes
- McKinney, Cynthia (2002). "Goodbye to All That". counterpunch.org.
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- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/apr/17/highereducation.israel Boycott threat to Israeli colleges
- Plaut, Steven (2005). "CounterPunch's Self-Hating Jews". frontpagemag.com.
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