Newsweek
Media Shocker: Newsweek Tells Truth About Budget Deficits
July 21st, 2006 12:07 PM
Nothing can put a bigger smile on an old cynic’s face than the normally predictable throwing a twelve to six curveball. Such is what occurred this morning when I opened up a Newsweek article by Robert Samuelson entitled: “Utterly Shameless; How could President Bush publicly brag about a federal budget with a $296 billion deficit?”After seeing that head and sub-line, I prepared to do battle with…
Newsweek's Man in Baghdad: Iraq Is 'Doomed,' Bush 'Manages the News
July 10th, 2006 6:35 AM
Rod Nordland, the chief foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine and their Baghdad bureau chief from 2003 to 2005, gave an interview to Foreign Policy magazine in which he declared that "It's a lot worse over here [in Iraq] than is reported. The administration does a great job of managing the news." He claimed individual reporters have been "blacklisted" because the military wasn't happy…
Media TKO's Kos to Protect Dean and Warner
June 30th, 2006 8:56 AM
Over the course of the past few weeks – and much to the delight of many conservative new media journalists – no less than seven major news outlets have published rather derogatory articles about Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the highly-successful proprietor of the überleft-leaning blog Daily Kos.Conspicuously at the same time, most media avoided or downplayed the recently revealed stock fraud…
Newsweek's Hard-hitting Celebrity Investigative Journalism
June 26th, 2006 4:15 PM
15 People Who Make America GreatNewsweek Magazine#4 Brad Pitt"If it wasn't for Brad Pitt, most Americans would never have heard of Namibia. They might not know about AIDS orphans in South Africa, or the plight of children in Haiti, or what transpired at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland."Google News: "Brad Pitt Namibia World Economic Forum Davos Switzerland"Results about "what…
Eleanor Clift Expresses Sane, Accurate Views For a Change
June 11th, 2006 12:23 PM
Without question, one of the most liberally biased journalists and political commentators in the mainstream media today is Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift. Week after week, her columns and her words spoken on “The McLaughlin Group” sound eerily similar to Democrat talking points coming directly from the likes of Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry. This is what makes her column on Friday quite…