Newsweek’s Meacham: Don't Expect Obama to Undo 'Awful, Terrible Stuf

January 8th, 2009 12:18 PM
Call this a lowering of expectations by a figurehead of the mainstream media.Newsweek editor Jon Meacham spoke candidly about his expectations for President-elect Barack Obama at an appearance promoting his latest book about former President Andrew Jackson, "American Lion," at the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 7.Meacham was asked to draw a comparison between Jackson…

Newsweek's Bush-Cheney Paper Dolls Contest: No More Prison Jumpsuits

December 29th, 2008 11:10 PM

Newsweek Uses Year-End Edition to Take Potshots at Palin

December 26th, 2008 3:23 PM
Newsweek sprinkled throughout its year-end double issue, with Barack Obama on the cover as the #1 member of “The New Global Elite,” a bunch of potshots at Sarah Palin -- and even derided teen daughter Bristol too. In a list of those who committed “low behavior” during 2008 (which did at least also highlight John Edwards), the magazine accused Sarah Palin of a “smear” against Barack Obama, on…

Newsweek Buries 2008 with Obit Bias

December 22nd, 2008 5:09 PM
In 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,…

Eleanor Clift: Wright Had 'Prophetic Theology', Rick Warren 'Extremely

December 22nd, 2008 4:17 PM
Rev. Jeremiah Wright was a voice crying in the wilderness that the mainstream media and middle class America weren't quite ready for and megachurch pastor Rick Warren is an ignorant evangelical rube who isn't totally without hope, given his awareness of AIDS and other favored liberal causes. That's essentially what Eleanor Clift preached to her choir in her December 19 "Capitol Letter" column, "…

ABC: Barack Obama Tops Newsweek’s List of 50 Elite People

December 22nd, 2008 1:05 PM
At the end of Monday’s ABC Good Morning America, co-host Chris Cuomo talked to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham about the magazine’s ‘Elite 50' list of influential people, as Cuomo put it: "People who will literally be able to shape our lives in many different ways." Meacham explained: "Our goal with this was, you know, elite got a bad rap this year. It wasn't a good thing to be an elitist. But there'…

Sally Quinn's Condescending Suggestion to the Faithful

December 19th, 2008 4:34 PM
In his December 19 blog post, "You too can be a spiritual dilettante," Get Religion contributor Douglas LeBlanc shared his bemusement with self-admitted atheist Sally Quinn's helpful suggestions to Newsweek/Washington Post's "On Faith" readers about interfaith dialogue. LeBlanc noted that Quinn gave her readers this assignment:Try a new faith (or non-faith) for one day. That exploration can…

You're Not Cheap, You're Just Being Green; Newsweek Trumpets 'Regiftin

December 18th, 2008 12:20 PM
In what's certain to be an article that can be recycled every Christmas season, Newsweek's Daniel Stone offers Ebenezer Scrooges throughout the land an easy excuse for regifting. You're not being cheap, you're just being green.His story was originally published on December 13, but is being cycled through the top headlines on the magazine's Web site today (see screencap at right), with just seven…

Bush-Hating Newsweek Reporter Says Shoe Toss Was 'One Small Measure of

December 18th, 2008 9:20 AM

After Attacking McCain for Them, Suddenly Newsweek Finds Lobbyists Are

December 17th, 2008 8:01 AM
During the recently completed presidential campaign, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff was all excited over his "web exclusive" piece on staffers with the McCain campaign that had connections with past lobbying efforts. Back in those days Newsweek was all about the evils of those darn lobbyists. For their part, Obama supporters at the time ballyhooed the pledges that Barack Obama had made stating that…

One Year Later: Murdoch's WSJ Purchase Not So Bad Says CNBC Panel

December 16th, 2008 6:14 PM
Rupert Murdoch has his critics - from those who think his papers are too tabloid-ish - The Sun, The New York Post - to those who find his cable television networks too right-leaning for their tastes. And back in 2007, there was a fear that his purchase of The Wall Street Journal would result in a hybrid of his newspapers and his cable news channels. However, a year after Murdoch's acquisition,…

Newsweek Still Dancing for Joy Over Anti-Bush Shoe-throwing Incident

December 16th, 2008 3:57 PM

FISA Leaker Featured on Newsweek Cover ID'd as BDS Loon by NewsBusters

December 16th, 2008 8:33 AM
The high level Justice Department official who leaked FISA information to the New York Times, Thomas Tamm, is currently featured on the cover of Newsweek along with the story about his motivations for leaking the details of the top secret program to monitor communications between terrorist suspects. Newsweek attempts to portray Tamm as some sort of noble hero who was torn by his decision to…

Newsweek Stomps On Bush with 'Conventional Wisdom' About Shoe-thrower

December 15th, 2008 10:31 AM