NEWSWEEK editor denies their Obama obsession (bias) hurt magazine

[The Village Idiot]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/09/newsweek_editor_extreme_obama_coverage_didnt_hurt_magazine.html

Newsweek editor Jon Meacham says Newsweek having Obama on the cover numerous times and thorough coverage of him is not to blame for the magazine's downfall. Transcript below:

JON MEACHAM, EDITOR, NEWSWEEK: I’m not pointing fingers, I’m not whining. This is the life we’ve chosen.

HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Right.

MEACHAM: I believe in this magazine and I’m going to do everything I possibly can and so is everybody at Newsweek to find a future.

KURTZ: But as you move more toward opinion, I believe that Newsweek came to be seen as more liberal, you started running more liberal columnists. I’ve lost track of the number of Barack Obama covers, Michelle Obama covers, could that have limited your appeal in the marketplace?

MEACHAM: I don’t think so because again it is not a readership issue and no advertiser, to my knowledge, ever pitched up and said, you know, I’m not going to advertise because you put the first African-American president in history on the cover or that we were too liberal.



not too liberal???? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[DumbAss Tanker]

no advertiser, to my knowledge, ever pitched up and said, you know, I’m not going to advertise because you put the first African-American president in history on the cover

Of course not, you fool, THAT wasn't their problem with it, but the way you make even the idea of 'Too much Obama' a perjorative and hint of racism shows what their problem with your horrid propagandistic content really was.

Denial.  It's not just a river in Africa.

[The Village Idiot]

Yes DAT, they are swimming upstream in de Nile river.

[Alpha Mare]

They're swimming in the kool-aid.

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[seabelle]

It's why I unsubscribed after many years.  Not only was it a slobberfest for the Obamas, they were fugly towards Sarah and any conservatives  speaking out against The Messiah.

[The Village Idiot]

In a just world .. "We are all socialists now" should have been the last issue.

[Ptarmigan]

Newsweek is the most leftist magazine, worse than Time. It has also gotten thinner.

[BlueStateSaint]

Newsweek is the most leftist magazine, worse than Time. It has also gotten thinner.

IIRC, they've also gone to a larger type font . . . fewer words on fewer pages.

[Chris]

Newsweek is the most leftist magazine, worse than Time. It has also gotten thinner.

So has our local paper.  The daily papers they're putting out now are the size of the advertising inserts in the Sunday paper.  They also combined the business and local news sections, and the "life" section of the paper with sports.  I've seen comic books with more pages.