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Newsweek's Hate Crime

Sara Whitman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Gay Panic Defense, Hate Crimes, Sensationalist Journalism, LGBT Issues, LGBT Youth, Lawrence King, LGBT Rights, Gay Agenda, Youth Sexuality, Newsweek, Civil Rights, Media News
Sara Whitman

The article "Young, Gay and Murdered" in Newsweek is one of the poorest forms of journalism I've ever read. To take a kid who is dead and report on how he "asked for it?" That is a hate crime.

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Pessimism: I'll Drink to That!

Steve Wasik | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Newsweek, Mood Swings, Economy, Panic, Usweekly, News, The Daily Show, Sigg, Green News
Steve Wasik

The Conference Board, which has tracked Americans mood swings since 1967, released figures showing that consumer confidence has reached an all time low. Sobering, but in light of the latest media coverage, hardly surprising news.

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Gillian Anderson's Awkward Newsweek Interview

Newsweek | Posted 07.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Newsweek, Gillian Anderson, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Entertainment News

Gillian Anderson reprises her role as Agent Dana Scully in "The X-Files: I Want to Believe." She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. I've got to confess. I don'...

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Greg Osberg, Newsweek President And Publisher, To Leave The Magazine

Folio: | Dylan Stableford | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Jon Meacham, Newsweek, Greg Osberg, Media News

Greg Osberg, Newsweek's president and worldwide publisher, is leaving the Washington Post Company, FOLIO: has learned. Osberg told FOLIO: Tuesday tha...

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Would Apple Blacklist Newsweek For Hiring Fake Steve Jobs?

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, Apple, realdanlyons.com, Dan Lyons, Newsweek Fake Steve Jobs, Who Is Fake Steve Jobs, Where Is Fake Steve Jobs, Fake Steve Jobs, Newsweek, Business News

Hope you've gotten your fill of Dan Lyons' great Secret Diary Of Steve Jobs blog, because it's going away. Unlike previous burials that Dan has given ...

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Cindy McCain: Pretty in Pink

Leslie Griffith | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Cindy Mccain Newsweek, Newsweek, Michelle Obama, Princess Diana, Body Image, Cindy McCain, Women and Body Image, Photoshopping, Living News
Leslie Griffith

Cindy McCain is no dummy: she's the chairwoman of her own company and the age of most grandmothers, so why did Newsweek make her look as if she is just another Paris Hilton-ized size two?

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Karl Rove

James Moore | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Plame, Reporter, New York Times, Media, Newsweek, Rove, Bush, Karl Rove, Armitage, Politics News
James Moore

Rove's latest twist on reality is his attempt to paint Obama as one of the sneering country club Republicans that Rove worked so hard to empower.

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Rove: Obama Is The Jerk At The Country Club

ABC News | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Newsweek, Karl Rove, Barack Obama Elitist, Barack Obama Country Club, Barack Obama, Politics News

ABC News' Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aid...

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Fake Steve Jobs Gets Real New Job

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Newsweek, Dan Lyons, Apple, Fake Steve Jobs Newsweek, Fake Steve Jobs, Steve Levy, Steve Jobs, Dan Lyons Newsweek, Forbes, Business News

Forbes editor Dan Lyons, best known to most of you as Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving his employer after a 10-year run and jumping to Newsweek, where he'l...

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Why The Economy Is Worse Than You Think: Newsweek

Newsweek | Daniel Gross | | Posted 06.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy Gas Prices, Newsweek, Gas Prices, Economy Recession, The Economy, Newsweek Economy, Recession, Economy Worse Than You Think, Business News

The forgettable first half of 2008 is stumbling to a close. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that American employers axed 49,000 jobs in May, ...

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Let The Second Guessing Begin: Five Reasons Obama Won and Five Reasons Clinton Lost

Jonathan Alter | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Newsweek, Hillary Clinton Lost, Barack Obama Nominee, Jonathan Alter, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jonathan Alter

Journalists, historians and bloggers will be talking for years about what happened. In such a close race, the winner did plenty of things wrong, and the loser did a lot right.

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Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff: "If Newsweek Is Around In Five Years, I'll Buy You Dinner"

Huffington Post | Adam Rose | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media

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Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff said today he'd be surprised if newsmagazines like Newsweek survive the next half-decade, given how much the...

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Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham's Wife May Have Killed Dark Obama Race Cover In Favor Of A Sunnier One: Report

Gawker | Ryan Tate | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media

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In this week's cover story about Barack Obama, Newsweek distills the conventional political wisdom into a bitter tonic of condescending campaign advic...

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Study: Meditation Against ADHD

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Cognitive Therapy, Attention Deficits, Adolescents, ADHD Medication, Meditation, Adhd, Brain Training, Memory, Newsweek, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

A fascinating new study suggests the benefits of mindfulness meditation for adolescents and adults with attention deficits.

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The Victims vs. the Victimized

Megan Shank | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Earthquake, Sichuan, Nationalism, China, Newsweek, Sichuan Earthquake, China Earthquake, Media News
Megan Shank

This urgency for homogenization of thought doesn't seem to be as unifying as it is fascist. There is no conflict between seeking the truth and honoring those killed in the Chinese earthquake.

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Today's Question: How'd it All Get So Mediocre?

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Political Dialogue, Pop Culture, Mediocrity, Fareed Zakaria, Kurt Vonnegut, Culture, Media News
Richard Laermer

What precisely defines US -- (not Us)? Have we struck out with renewed vigor? Have we succumbed to fear? Well, neither. We're mediocre. We've embraced American mediocrity.

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Reading The Pictures: The First Post-American President?

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Obama, Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, Bush, Rove, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-05-22-obama_shaw_fareed.jpgI would contend that the key element in this pic of Obama, taken on the eve of the Oregon and Kentucky primaries, is the copy of Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World.

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Karl Rove's Pundit Problem

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

Why is TV's newest talking head being held up as a paragon of political analysis at the very moment the Republican president he helped mold is in complete free fall?

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The Press Polishes the McCain "Brand"

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

By discussing McCain in terms of a formal brand, the press suggests that McCain's reputation as a maverick has become so embedded, so ingrained, that it has transcended into a formal trademark.

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Newsweek Veteran: Time 100 "Not Fair"

New York Post | Page Six | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media

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Last week's event at the Time Warner Center drew the hottest movie star of the moment, "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr., presumptive Republican presidenti...

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Karl Rove and the Media-Politico Revolving Door: It Goes Further Back than Stephanopoulos

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Time, Karl Rove, Pundits, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, US News & World Report, Fdr, White House Ghosts, George Stephanopoulos, Jfk, Punditry, Franklin Roosevelt, Presidential Speechwriting, Media News
Robert Schlesinger

The New York Times traces the trend as far back as George Stephanopoulos's switch from the Clinton White House to ABC News, but it goes much further back.

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Just in Time for Wedding Season: Love and Romance Break Free of their Contemporary Moorings

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.11.2008 | Living

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Social Justice, Friends, Weddings, Meaning, Partners, Soulmate Mythology, Lyrics, Matrimania, Sabbatical, Singles, Passion, Music, Intimacy, Newsweek, Louisa May Alcott, John Mayer, Relatives, Marriage, Singlism, Social History, Solitude, Juilliard, Paul Erdos, Nature, Ted Sorensen, Scientific Discovery, New York Times, Body Language, Singled Out, Love, Living News
Bella DePaulo

A few weeks ago, Ted Sorensen - husband, father, and renowned speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy - was interviewed by Deborah Solomon of the N...

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Howard Fineman

Andy Kindler | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media

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Andy Kindler

Fineman is currently shilling his new book: The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country. I dare you to come up with a less inspiring title.

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Benedict in America: The Man Show

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Time, Brian Ross, Feminist, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Clergy Sex Abuse, Theology, Anderson Cooper, Pedophilia, Chris Matthews, Catholic Church, Dolores Huerta, Benedict XVI, Jason Berry, Dan Harris, Jim Lehrer, New York Times, Washington Post, Keith Oberman, Geroge W. Bush, Newsweek, Living News
Angela Bonavoglia

On Benedict XVI's much-heralded first papal visit to the United States, we witnessed once again the spectacle and pageantry of the Catholic Church's unapologetically all-male hierarchy.

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Reading The Pictures: The Wimp Factor-y

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Swiftboating, Politics, Obama, Campaign '08, Wimp Factor, Kerry, Newsweek, Obama Wimp, John Kerry, John Kerry Wimp, Barack Obama, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-04-21-shaw_kerry_wimp.jpgIt's not that "Obama is starting to look more like Kerry," so much as "The Factory" is cranking up the campaign to make it look that way.

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