Who Is Minding the Store at Newsweek? Yesterday, my colleague Joe Pompeo called up Newsweek to ask whether the company was planning to issue any corrections or clarifications of Niall Ferguson's cover story, "Hit the Road Barack," in which countless manipulations and outright misrepresentations are marshaled in favor of an argument against Barack Obama's reelection. Newsweek's anti-Obama cover story: Has the magazine lost all credibility? The conservative historian Niall Ferguson pens an error-filled tirade against Obama, and the struggling weekly concedes that it didn't fact-check the story 'Newsweek' Tumblr Adds to Publication's Woes As if Newsweek needed another headache this week. Already mired in a controversy over this week's Niall Ferguson cover story , Newsweek is receiving even more backlash this afternoon over a decision on the magazine's Tumblr account. After a back-and-forth exchange with the Huffington Post's Tumblr (which this morning used a coat hanger on its homepage to highlight a GOP abortion platform article ... Paul Krugman Shows Newsweek How to Fact Check Paul Krugman is pretty much done picking on Niall Ferguson for his widely-criticized takedown of President Obama and is moving on to Ferguson's publisher Newsweek. As Krugman sees it, the assertions Ferguson was throwing around would have never made it to print if the magazine had a proper fact-checking operation. How would this work? Krugman is happy to divulge the proprietary secrets of The ... Newsweek's controversial cover: 'Hit The Road, Barack.' It's not quite Time's "attachment parenting" cover story, but Newsweek is certainly generating some headlines of its own this week 'HuffPo,' 'Newsweek' Face Backlash Over Abortion Metaphor Both The Huffington Post and Newsweek are battling backlash for their use of coat-hanger symbols to protest a call for a Constitutional ban on abortions without exceptions for victims of rape and incest. The call for the ban appears in a draft of the GOP's official 2012 platform, according to CNN. The front page of The Huffington Post was taken up by a large image of a coat hanger late Tuesday ... Newsweek cover story by Niall Ferguson about President Obama's re-election bid criticized by Paul Krugman The recent Newsweek cover story by columnist Niall Ferguson about the re-election bid by US President Barack Obama is being criticized by Paul Krugman, a Princeton economics professor who won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008, saying that the article has incorrect information and needs to be corrected. Newsweek magazine cover Image Credit: Niall [...] Forget 'The Wimp Factor'; Now It's Time for Obama to 'Hit the Road' Newsweek editor and provocateur Tina Brown must be thrilled that Niall Ferguson's "Hit the Road, Barack" cover is the talk of the morning, but, actually, it's not because the essay hit on some universal truth or was an exquisite piece of journalism—it's because everyone is cutting the piece off at the knees. First off, Brown and the crew at Newsweek deserve a slow clap for their amazing trolling ... Newsweek 's Niall Ferguson debacle It's been a long time since I've seen a cover story so comprehensively demolished as Newsweek 's disengenuous anti-Obama piece by Harvard's Niall Ferguson, who puts together a greatest-hits compilation of the right's economic smears of the past three-plus years. Newsweek Cover Story Hammers Obama: 'Hit The Road Barack' *(Via Mediaite) – Newsweek magazine has made headlines many times in recent months, mostly for its controversial cover stories. This week, Newsweek has made controversy again – this time for publishing a strong piece by Niall Fergusson in which he details the many reasons why President Barack Obama has failed as the nation's chief executive [...]
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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