It looks like some captains in the MSM have ordered full reverse power and a hard right rudder before they crash into the iceberg of complete disgrace. However, like the Titanic, it's really too late - and they've already begun to take on water and sink.

McNotObama '08

Good job, Newsweek.

All we want is the facts.  Let everyone make a decision - either way - on the basis of the truth.

They are only trying to stop the left from looking like jealous and vindictive high school girls, which is what the do look like now.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

it is kinda neat how they are tacking to the right AFTER both of the conventions are over and AFTER all the dirt has ben proliferated thoughout the MSM.

Almost as neat as pulling Chrissy and Olbedink off the news anchor desk, AFTER the conventions are over.

Your Titanic analogy is right on, too late, already beyond patching those holes in the hull.

(Was suppose to link as a reply to ChrisNorman...)

Newsweek - refreshing move - for Newsweek.

Bottom line remains - the problem is not so much the blogs, etc., but the MSM, which finds itself more than eager to push the slime and smears. Imagine what they [MSM] could have found said about Democrats in the past many years. The MSM only uses that, when they can use it to smear a Repbublican for saying it in the first place. (;~> gary

As I commented on Matthew's post.

FactCheck.org, which aimed to refute "dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain's running mate"

The MSM has an ethical responsibility not to simply pass anything and everything along to the voting public, that ole uncle Walley had to say after 3 beers and two shots of whiskey.

We do remember what Barnicle and Mika had to say last week, right? It the reporters who want this stuff out.

It's the MSM that is pushing - shrilling - all of this crapola to the public, and it's for the purpose of putting their candidate in the White House. Same ole thing. (;~> gary

There has been such a huge wave of publicity recently regarding the media, both print and TV, and how liberal is its agenda. Newsweek, of course, is one of those liberal media.

The media’s ravaging of Sarah Palin was certainly a catalyst for this publicity.  Of course, NewsBusters has been in the forefront of publicising this liberal bias for a long time.

When Lou Dobbs will say “I can't think of another populous on CNN here”, as he did yesterday on his program, the public must be getting the message that our country’s mainstream media leans left and reports the news to the left.

I believe that the liberal media is so embarrassed by this attention that they may be attempting, at least temporarily, to move toward the center. Hopefully, NewsBusters, other websites, and Talk Radio can keep the pressure on the media to be more fair and balanced.

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For those of us who respect Democrat analyst and FoxNews contributor Kirsten Powers, and who would like to see her replace Alan Colmes on Hannity and Colmes (I emailed both FoxNews and Sean Hannity and suggested this), her column today titled How Obama Blew It  is an example of her fairness. Rush Limbaugh read excerpts from her column on his show today.

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The liberal media continues to sacrifice ethics and morals for the greater cause: This time for the Election of a Democrat to the Presidency of the United States.

Odd that factcheck would print the truth about Palin when they have been so diligent in scrubbing the truth about Obama.  Boggling indead.  I wonder what their angle is. 

The truth about Gov. Palin is being revealed anyway so Newsweek is trying to head it off at the pass. Newsweek is still just as left-wing extremist but they are trying to stop the hemorrhaging of readership.