Tag: Newsweek
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A Good Story
I am a regular reader of Newsweek magazine. Most of the time, I don’t like what I read in there. I find its journalism often sloppy, if not downright dishonest. The fact is, I read it through gritted teeth most of the time. For instance, I think they’re highly tilted toward John McCain in this…
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McCain-iacs
I have been saying all along that media types are suckers for Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), especially over at Newsweek. I don’t know why he wastes money having a media relations staff when most people in the industry are more than happy to be his toady. Now, Neal Gabler explores the issue on the op-ed…
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Buckley's splendid eulogies
I come late to the William F. Buckley eulogy party, a full week as a matter of fact. I was going to skip it entirely but I finally read my Newsweek magazine, which devoted precious newshole to the passing of the conservative icon.There was the long retrospective on his career by Evan Thomas, accompanied by…
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McCain's media relations office
How fortunate is John McCain, (R-AZ), to have Newsweek magazine in its corner?The magazine’s reporters and writers don’t even pretend to be objective anymore. They see their job as explaining the ‘Maverick’ to an unappreciative nation. Case in point is their package of stories and columns under the headline Straight Talk Roadblock, which sought to…
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Is it?
Al Jolson, Elvis Pressley, Bill Clinton, just to name a few. I’m sure I meant something by that list. But just what I cannot tell you because I am not really sure. The list is not random, however. It took me a while to get to this Newsweek article by David Gates but I am…
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McCain Able
Newsweek has this profile of John McCain that is par for the course when it comes to how the Beltway pundits, especially allegedly liberal ones, treat his various perfidies. The broad outline is this: * McCain, a son of privilege, was a hellion who listened to no one, acted out whenever he felt like it.…