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The Politically Motivated Selective-Victimhood of Sarah Palin

Karl Frisch | Posted 02.06.2010 | Media

Read More: Down Syndrome, Special Olympics, White House, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Rush Limbaugh, Facebook, Greg Sargent, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Palin, Sexism, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Mysoginy, Glenn Beck, Washington Post, 24, Media News

Are Sarah Palin's condemnations of Rahm Emanuel the deservedly stern comments of an offended mother or the hypocritical nonsense of a political opportunist?

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Photoshopping Hall of Shame

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 02.03.2010 | Media

Read More: Dove, Photoshop, Mindful Eating, Thin, Dieting, Body Image, Jean Kilbourne, Mindless Eating, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Evolution, Ralph Lauren, Photoshopping, Newsweek, Beauty, Media News

Welcome to the photoshop hall of shame courtesy of Newsweek entitled, "Unattainable Beauty" (Click Here). It's likely that you heard about the Ralph L...

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Obama's Newsweek Haiti Essay: 'Why Haiti Matters'

newsweek.com | Barack Obama | NEWSWEEK | Posted 01.17.2010 | World

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In the last week, we have been deeply moved by the heartbreaking images of the devastation in Haiti: parents searching through rubble for sons and dau...

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Roger Ailes Is The Real Head Of The Republican Party: Howard Fineman

Newsweek | Howard Fineman | Posted 01.16.2010 | Media

Read More: Gop, Roger Ailes, Newsweek, Roger Ailes Republican Party, Fox News Republicans, Fox News, Howard Fineman, Roger Ailes Gop, Republican Party, Media News

I've been trying to answer this question: does the Republican Party have a "leader"? Surely it's not Michael Steele, the loose-lipped chairman of the ...

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Barack Obama To Write Newsweek Cover Story On Haiti

Posted 01.14.2010 | Media

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President Barack Obama will write the cover story for next week's Newsweek magazine. The Wall Street Journal's Russell Adams reports that Newsweek ed...

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The Recession Generation: 'Newsweek'

newsweek.com | Posted 01.09.2010 | Business

Read More: Newsweek, Economy, Economic Crisis, Recession Generation, Financial Crisis, Recession, Great Depression, Business News

We all know the type of person who came of age in the Great Depression. They are the grandmothers and grandfathers who can't use a tea bag too many ti...

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Move Your Money Movement Surges In Social Media

Huffington Post | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 01.10.2010 | Business

Read More: Stephanie Frost, Newsweek, Twitter, Community Banks, Cnn, Bank of America, Move Your Money, Youtube, Banks, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Move Your Money, Facebook, Rick Sanchez, Democracy Now, The Ed Show, Business News

Take the pledge to Move Your Money! In the past week, Move Your Money evolved from a New Year's Resolution into a national movement. Press cover...

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Savannah Book Festival: Escape From a Cold Virtual World

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 01.06.2010 | Books

Read More: Kindle, New Orleans, Gretchen Peters, Avatar, Social Networking, Twitter, Savannah, Audiobooks, Music, Reza Aslan, Facebook, Caroline Herring, Vince Flynn, Kate Campbell, Mary Alice Monroe, Eudora Welty, Rick Bragg, Savannah Literary Festival, Lauretta Hannon, Julia Reed, Georgia, Southern Writers, Jackson Mississippi, Newsweek, Claire Holley, Authors, Books, Talk Radio, Civil Discourse, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Facebook Addiction, Blogging, Writers, Lucinda Williams, Southern Hospitality, Books News

Has it occurred to you that social networking is really not very social at all? We Twitter, and cultivate relationships with hundreds of "friends" we have never met on Facebook.

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America's New Face of Terrorism

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 01.04.2010 | World

Read More: Profiling, News, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, World, Civil Rights, America, Politics News, Uniteds States of America, 7/7, London 7/7, Arabs, Civil Liberties, Saudi Arabia, El Al, United States. U.S., Black Men, Richard Reid, Nigeria, Senator Joe Liberman, Discrimination, Thurgood Marshall, Newsweek, Islam, American Muslim, Usama Bin Laden, Politics, U.S. Government, Transportation Safety Administration, John Muhammad, Blacks, Newt Gingrich, Tsa, Muslim Public Affairs Council, General McInerney, U.S. Pysche, Arab, Racial Profiling, Muslims, African American, Nigerian, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Israel, New York Times, Fox News, Joe Lieberman, Terrorism, Dc Sniper, Shoe Bomber, European Allies, The West, Alejandro Beutal, World News

Thanks to a 23-year-old black man who deceptively looks like an innocent boy, African-Americans, Arabs and the Muslim Diaspora all have something in common. They are more easily viewed as terrorists, and there's no escaping it.

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Ten Things That Totally Sucked About The Media In 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.01.2010 | Media

Earlier, I offered up the Ten Things That Did Not Suck About The Media in 2009. You know what's coming now! The stuff in 2009 that straight up sucked canal water! Let's hit it and quit it.

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Exclusive: TSA Seizes Computer from Travel Blogger

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 12.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Time, Steven Frischling, No Fly Lists, Life, New York Times, Tsa, Newsweek, Klm, Politics News

Two black sedans with TSA special agents came to the Connecticut home of blogger Steven Frischling and walked out with his laptop computer, looking for the anonymous source who leaked a directive.

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Why Science Needs To Bring Sexy Back

Jason Silva | Posted 12.07.2009 | Technology

Read More: Newsweek, John Maeda, SpaceCollective.Org, Science, Transcendental Media, Current TV, Al Gore, Jeremy McCarter, Richard Holmes, Jason Silva, Technology News

I have found that there is very little excitement about the scientific breakthroughs that are occurring every day. Science seems to have lost its "art direction," and it needs to bring sexy back.

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Greenpeace Asks For Senate Investigation Into Newsweek's Big Oil Forum

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Newsweek, Senate, Lobbying, American Petroleum Institute, Lobbyblog, Green News

On Tuesday, Newsweek hosted a climate and energy policy forum on Capitol Hill with the American Petroleum Institute. Now Greenpeace, which has been he...

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The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Newsweek, Michael Isikoff, White House Gate Crasher, Barack Obama Racism, Secret Service, Racism, Hate Speech, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Right Wing Conspiracy, Right-Wing Extremism, Obama Transition, Living News

When I and others suggested that the Birthers, the Tea Baggers, the Limbaughs and Becks of the world were motivated at least in part by racism, the President himself said he did not believe that to be the case.

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Jon Meacham's Cheney 2012 Proposal: Pretending To Care About 'Adjudicating' The Bush Years

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Jon Meacham, Media Criticism, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Media News

While I was enjoying life outside the Beltway for Thanksgiving, the entire world was captivated by Tiger Woods, a pair of reality-show fameball wannabes and a Jon Meacham column touting Dick Cheney as the GOP nominee for 2012.

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Newsweek Reporter Just Freed From Iranian Prison: Why The U.S. Should Still Talk

washingtonpost.com | Maziar Bahari | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Iranian Prison, Iran Prison, Iran, Maziar Bahari Washington Post, Maziar Bahari Freed, Newsweek Reporter, Iran u.s., Maziar Bahari, World News

Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Can we still talk to these people? Shoul...

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12 Comics Who Aren't Funny? Or, Let Us Now Bash Robin Williams Part. 1

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 11.28.2009 | Comedy

Who is Sarah Ball and why is she saying awful things about Emo Phillips? And, why is she not saying awful things about Robin Williams?

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Sarah Palin's Lady Gaga Tour of Michigan

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barbara Walters Sarah Palin, Dave Agema, John McCain, Sarah Palin Vice President, Oprah Winfrey Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Republicans Michigan, Oprah Winfrey, Sean Hannity Sarah Palin, Kevin Elsenheimer, Sean Hannity, Barbara Walters, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Michigan, Fox News, Sarah Palin Memoir, Lady GaGa, Sarah Palin Grand Rapids, Politics News

Sarah Palin blew into Grand Rapids with all the stagecraft (and subtlety) of Lady Gaga, pulling up in a bus ensconced with the cover photo from her book, down to her glossy lips and heavenward gaze.

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Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting

Ari Melber | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Press Bias, Obama Press Coverage, Newsweek, Obama Media, Jon Meacham, Media Disclosure, Obama Stimulus, Obama Jon Meacham, Yuval Levin, Bush Jon Meacham, Msm, Media Bias, Obama Tax Cut, Media News

Political journalism is often imaginative, but a Newsweek article about tax cuts by a former aide to George W. Bush verges on delusion.

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Sarah Palin: Newsweek Cover Showing My Legs "Sexist" (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Sarah Palin Newsweek Cover, Sarah Palin Newsweek, Sarah Palin, Magazines, Poll, Media News

Sarah Palin took to Facebook Monday night to declare the Newsweek cover depicting her in runner's shorts as "sexist." In a Facebook note to her almos...

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From Randy To Rand: The New Political Fiction(s)

John Jeter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Politics, Mark Sanford, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ayn Rand, Fiction, Memoir, Jenny Sanford, Non-Fiction, Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Books News

Governor Mark Sanford -- the man who has confused the Appalachian Trail with Argentina and still holds public office writes about the Objectivist Philosopher.

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Innovation in the 21st Century: Keeping the US Competitive

Justin R. Rattner | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Newsweek, Innovation, Survey, Technology, US Economy, Economy, Intel, Technology Innovation, Technology News

Despite one of the deepest recessions in history, Americans have an undiminished faith in technology and innovation as the primary engines of economic growth.

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Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs

John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Right Wing, Media, Criticism, Poetry, Lou Dobbs, Newsweek, Immigration Reform, Scott Whitlock, Cnn, Jerry Adler, Fox News, Poem, John Lundberg, Living News

Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."

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A Challenge to Magazine Publishers -- Especially Jon Meacham

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Magazine, Al Gore, Magazine Publishers, Jon Meacham, Vanity Fair, Co2, Deforestation, Newsweek, Blow-in Inserts, Guideposts, Climate Change, Green News

If all the print publications in the U.S. alone were to eliminate inserts, how much would that reduce carbon emissions? Think of the deforestation it could prevent.

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By the People, Poliwood: Bittersweet look at 2008 election

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Barry Levinson, Anna Quindlen, Susan Sarandon, Josh Lucas, Poliwood, Creative Coalition, Frank Luntz, Anne Hathaway, Newsweek, Marshall Fine Blog, Barack Obama, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Tim Daly, Entertainment News

A year later, it's a bittersweet experience watching Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres on Tuesday on HBO.

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