- Spencer Ackerman
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education =Rutgers University
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credits = National Security Correspondent for the "Washington Independent"; former reporter forThe New Republic ; has appeared onCNN ,MSNBC , andFox News ; frequent guest onBloggingHeads.tv
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URL =Spencer Ackerman is a former reporter for
The New Republic who now writes about security issues for the "Washington Independent". He has been to Iraq twice.cite news | url=http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118945161322222870-bXYxKiJLpOaWB_OQ3i8yGp8dqwM_20071012.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top | publisher=The Wall Street Journal | title=D.C.'s New Young Blogging Elite | first=Marie last=Beaudette | date=September 12 ,2007 | accessdate=2007-09-12]Ackerman was previously a blogger and senior correspondent for "
The American Prospect " and a reporter forTalking Points Memo . He attendedRutgers University where he was an editor for theDaily Targum student paper. In 2002, he moved toWashington D.C. to become an intern and later an associate editor at "The New Republic " magazine. He initially supported theIraq War , but became disillusioned and in 2004 started a blog on "The New Republic" website called [http://www.tnr.com/blog/iraqd Iraq'd] which chronicled the dilemma of pro-war liberals. He also wrote, with John B. Judis, an article that started the chain of events that led to thePlame affair . In October 2006 he was fired by "The New Republic" EditorFranklin Foer . Describing it as a "painful" decision, Foer attributed the firing to Ackerman's "insubordination": disparaging the magazine on his personal blog [http://toohotfortnr.blogspot.com Too Hot For TNR] , saying that he would "skullfuck" a terrorist's corpse at an editorial meeting if that was required to "establish his anti-terrorist bona fides" and sending Foer an e-mail where he said -- in what according to Ackerman was intended to be a joke -- he would “make a niche in your skull” with a baseball bat. Ackerman, by contrast, argued that the dismissal was due to “irreconcilable ideological differences”. He believed that his leftward drift as a result of the Iraq War and the actions of the Bush administration was not appreciated by the senior editorial staff. [http://observer.com/20061030/20061030_Michael_Calderone_pageone_offtherec-2.asp] Within 24 hours of being fired by "The New Republic", Ackerman gained his current job at competing magazine, "The American Prospect". Ackerman has no regrets over anything he wrote or said but in retrospect believes that he should have quit. [http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/nyrm/hendler_well.html] In the spring of 2007 he was embedded in Iraq.Ackerman is a fan of comic books and
hardcore punk music. He has appeared onCNN ,MSNBC ,Fox News andBloggingHeads.tv .References
External links
* [http://attackerman.firedoglake.com Attackerman] - Ackerman's blog at
firedoglake
* [http://toohotfortnr.blogspot.com Too Hot For TNR] – Ackerman's personal blog
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Ackerman,%20Spencer List of video conversations with Ackerman] onBloggingHeads.tv
* [http://www.tnr.com/showBio.mhtml?pid=181&sa=1 Articles by Ackerman at "The New Republic"]
* [http://www.prospect.org/cs/author?id=1181 Articles by Ackerman at "The American Prospect"]
* [http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/11/16/cia/index_np.html Killing the Messenger] by Ackerman in Salon, November 16, 2004
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