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Alexander Claud Cockburn (born 6 June 1941) is an American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also writes the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times as well as for The First Post, which is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
Born in Scotland, Cockburn grew up in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, eldest son of the well-known sometime communist author and journalist, Claud Cockburn by third wife Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot (who also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight). He has one daughter, Daisy Cockburn whose mother is the writer Emma Tennant and two younger brothers, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, who are also journalists. His half-sister, the barrister and mystery writer Sarah Caudwell, died in 2000. In addition, journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders are his half-nieces, daughters of his half-sister Claudia Davis/Cockburn and her husband Michael Flanders. Actress Olivia Wilde is his niece, daughter of his brother Andrew Cockburn. After studying at Glenalmond College, an independent boys' boarding school in Perthshire, Scotland, and at Keble College, Oxford, Cockburn worked in London as a reporter and commentator.
Since moving to the United States, Cockburn has written for many publications, including The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and Harper's. From 1973 to 1983 he was a writer with The Village Voice, originating its longstanding "Press Clips" column, but he was suspended, the Voice stated, "for accepting a $10,000 grant from an Arab studies organization in 1982." His defenders charge that his criticism of Israeli policies was behind the firing. Cockburn has said that he left the Voice upon being offered a regular column in The Nation called "Beat the Devil" (after the title of a novel by his father). Since leaving the Voice he has also written columns for the Wall Street Journal, New York Press and the New Statesman. Cockburn has also been a regular contributor to the Anderson Valley Advertiser.
Cockburn originally chose Irish citizenship (over UK citizenship), but in 2009 he became a citizen of the United States. On March 16, 2009 Cockburn officially became a new columnist for the paleoconservative Chronicles magazine.
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Currently, Broder writes a twice-a-week column for The Washington Post.
Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields was an interview/political discussion show on CNN for approximately 20 years. The weekly program featured four rotating panelists, including Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Al Hunt and Mark Shields.
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Book TV: Alexander Cockburn on his Writing Habitsby BookTV2,649 views
Ha ha!! His name is Cockburn!! Brilliant!!
Revelian1982 8 months ago
Interesting what Cockburn says about pundits; this was in 87, long before the explosion of right-wing propaganda began fueling every big-time and petty pundit that can buy an airwave
LetsGo6009 10 months ago
If you enjoy this interview and want to read some of Alexander Cockburn's work, check out his website counterpunch(DOT)org, which he edits with Jeffrey St Clair.
jpp3g 11 months ago
@sherri419 wow, cool, score one for cindy. i had no idea.
highway234 1 year ago
Alexander Cockburn is one of my favorite journalists, thank you film archive for uploading
I miss the days when the Nation featured the works of Cockburn and Hitchens on a weekly basis (these days Cockburn gets a 1 page piece once a month and Hitchens does not even write for the paper any more)
PersianSocialist777 1 year ago
Yeah I guess she could be considered an political activist
since she's worked for a lot of very good political and non-political causes,
from the late-1960's (she was a teen back then) to the present.
sherri419 1 year ago
at about 3:40, cindy lauper? is that totally random or is/was she a political activist and i wasn't aware of it?
highway234 1 year ago