About Extra!

About Extra!

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Editor: Jim Naureckas
Managing editor: Julie Hollar
Publisher: Deborah Thomas

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"In Extra!, I find all the news that the Respectables find unfit to print.
It is great therapy for me; it keeps my blood pressure down and my skull from going numb."

—Studs Terkel


Extra! March 2010

Current Extra! cover
Playing the Nazi Card
Comparing Obama to Hitler becomes a standard right-wing trope
By Noah Lederman

Inside the TV Wars
The battles to watch over what you can watch
By Megan Tady

Articles only available in print:
‘America Was Safer Under Bush’
Journalists accept GOP’s screwy terrorism scorecard
by Steve Rendall

The New ‘Forgotten’ War
Iraq occupation falls into media shadows
by Dahr Jamail

CounterSpin Interview
Mark Weisbrot on the Haitian Earthquake
‘Are you going to reconstruct the country without a state?’


NPR Puts Right-Wing Hate in Howard Zinn’s Obit
A double standard for deaths on left and right
by Jim Naureckas