USA Today’s Neuharth Slams Newsweek as ‘Inaccurate and Unfair Left-Wing Propaganda Machine’

Prompted by Newsweek’s Michele Bachmann cover picture choice, in his weekly Friday column, USA Today founder Al Neuharth, a pretty consistent liberal, recognized the magazine’s political agenda.

“When Newsweek was owned by the Washington Post, it was predictably left-wing, but it was accurate,” Neuharth observed before slamming the new owner/editor who picked a picture to make Bachmann look crazy: “Under Tina Brown, it is an inaccurate and unfair left-wing propaganda machine.”

In the August 19 column, “Newsweek Bachmann cover is outrageous,” Neuharth explained how “last week's cover featured a full-page, wide-eyed facial picture of Michele Bachmann, carefully selected to match the headline, which calls her ‘The Queen of Rage.’”

He recalled: “A full-page cover picture of Bill Clinton in June showed him as a smiling nice guy, in contrast to the Bachmann Queen of Rage cover.”

Neuharth, who began by writing that “Newsweek magazine, under new ownership and a new editor with a London background, has become almost as crazy and racy as the scandalous British tabloids,” concluded: “Editor Tina Brown should acknowledge that her magazine is substituting London fog for real news.”

Earlier:

“Newsweek's Tina Brown Offers No Apology, Doubles Down on 'Crazy' Bachmann Cover”

“If You Thought Newsweek's Cover Photo of Bachmann Was Bad Wait Until You Read the Story...”
                                   
“Flashback: Newsweek's Adulatory 2008 Obama Cover Portraits”