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Have you seen Newsweek's cover for this week? We need a response. (Original Post) Skidmore Aug 2012 OP
Newsweek; irrelevant since the 70's. part man all 86 Aug 2012 #1
+++ 1,000 +++ n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #2
Tina Brown's tabloid now. Skidmore Aug 2012 #4
Respond to Tina Brown jsr Aug 2012 #3
Do you have contact info? I looked on The Daily Beast and Laurian Aug 2012 #8
Newsweek became a joke about 10 years ago. JoePhilly Aug 2012 #5
Meh lunatica Aug 2012 #6
Return To Sender russspeakeasy Aug 2012 #7
" Business Whoa: Newsweek’s Latest Cover May Surprise You" RKP5637 Aug 2012 #9
So they want us to elect The Wimp? Arugula Latte Aug 2012 #10
Newsweek?? the magazine that denied that their editor, Joe Klein wrote "Primary Colors"? KurtNYC Aug 2012 #11
I guess I will avoid that issue when I am at the dentist in February. NM high density Aug 2012 #12
"Fuck you, Newsweek." How is that for a response? n/t renie408 Aug 2012 #13
I think the response is "Niall Ferguson? Really?" Spider Jerusalem Aug 2012 #14
Isn't Niall a member of the boy band, One Direction? Fawke Em Aug 2012 #20
Used to be a liberal rag, now it's a neocon rag. reformist2 Aug 2012 #15
Sidney Harmon would turn over in his grave flamingdem Aug 2012 #16
Check out their cover teasers - hidden treasure, strippers and Richard Gere. 'Nuff said. Scuba Aug 2012 #17
WTF!?! nt Raine Aug 2012 #18
Newsweak hired Rove as a columnist Doctor_J Aug 2012 #19
who is Niall Ferguson? scheming daemons Aug 2012 #21
Niall Ferguson. Cleita Aug 2012 #22
Krugman on Ferguson: edhopper Aug 2012 #23

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
9. " Business Whoa: Newsweek’s Latest Cover May Surprise You"
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 06:01 PM
Aug 2012

See: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/whoa-newsweeks-latest-cover-may-surprise-you/

Now, we all know Newsweek isn’t shy when it comes to controversial cover photos and headline stories. Indeed, on more than a few occasions, Newsweek Editor Tina Brown has had to defend the magazine’s less-than-flattering photos and oftentimes incendiary articles.


Whoa. Well, that‘s certainly a departure from the type of headline stories and cover photos we’ve grown accustomed to:

“The Queen of Rage”

“Why Are Obama’s Critics so Dumb?”

“The First Gay President“

“We’re All Socialists Now“

“Romney: The Wimp Factor“

“George Bush: Fighting the Wimp Factor”

Newsweek’s latest cover story comes from none other than noted historian Niall Ferguson. The article, titled “Hit the Road, Barack,” argues that President Obama has proven that he‘s an economic illiterate and that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan’s “path to prosperity is our only hope.”


What a bullshit magazine.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
11. Newsweek?? the magazine that denied that their editor, Joe Klein wrote "Primary Colors"?
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 06:04 PM
Aug 2012

the magazine with 3 million fewer subscribers than they had 10 years ago?

What a waste of 42 poly-coated 4-color graphics pages with bogus spin about shit that happened a week ago.

ps: a blast from the past -- How Newsweek ended their credibility:

After months of emphatic denials, the anonymous author of a best-selling tale of political intrigue and deceit emerged yesterday at a hastily called news conference to reveal his own true colors: "My name is Joe Klein and I wrote 'Primary Colors.' "

Mr. Klein, a Newsweek columnist and an occasional commentator for CBS News, offered no apologies for lying to friends and colleagues, insisting that he had guarded his secret in the same way that journalists protect news sources.


http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/18/us/columnist-s-mea-culpa-i-m-anonymous.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
14. I think the response is "Niall Ferguson? Really?"
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 06:06 PM
Aug 2012

He's not even an American citizen, as far as I'm aware.

Edit to add: Imagine the response from conservatives if a US-resident non-citizen academic historian made a similar partisan commentary on why a sitting Republican president needed to go.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
16. Sidney Harmon would turn over in his grave
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 06:11 PM
Aug 2012

He bought it before he died and for a brief moment, before Tina, it seemed to take a liberal turn.

Sidney among other things (audio magnate) was the president of Friends World College one of the most progressive and interesting colleges that took root in the 60s and set the template for international experimental education.

He'd never approve of this crap

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
22. Niall Ferguson.
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 07:35 PM
Aug 2012

I made the mistake of reading one of his books on economics. What drivel and he is being proven to be all wrong as time goes on. You hit the road Naill and don't look back.

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