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“Exposing & Combating Liberal Media Bias”
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Studs TerkelNewsweek Buries 2008 with Obit BiasIn its year-ending double issue Newsweek couldn't resist injecting liberal media bias into its mini obituaries entitled "Remember Them Well." Yet the newsmagazine seemed to forget, perhaps intentionally, the left-of-center politics of prominent liberals profiled while using terms like "far-right" to describe the politics of deceased conservatives such as Paul Weyrich. But wait, there's more, Newsweek used the occasion to link the civil rights struggles of the 1960s with the fight for same-sex marriage and to approve the first President Bush's breaking of the "no new taxes" pledge. Take Studs Terkel, the hard-left Communist journalist who passed away at age 96. Newsweek ignored his political leanings, euphemizing them by referencing his "working-class empathy and patient, guileless style [that] helped a confused nation speak its mind." By contrast, here's how the World Socialist Web Site eulogized him: AP: 'Terkel's Politics Were Liberal, Vintage FDR'
Terkel's appeal to liberals may at least partially be explained by his political activities. The Associated Press today reports:
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