Newsweek Wins Lapdog Award
By Don | November 18, 2009
The Congressional Media Fairness Caucus led by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) awarded Newsweek magazine its "Lap Dog Award" for glaring examples of media bias.
In a speech on the floor of the House Smith cited the following examples of bias at Newsweek
Newsweek’s cover story featuring former Vice President Al Gore with the caption, “The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man.”
The previous Newsweek cover featured President Obama with the caption, ‘Yes He Can’ – a variation of his campaign slogan.
Before that it was Vice President Biden – ‘A Vice President to be Reckoned With.’
Newsweek’s latest cover features Governor Sarah Palin and says she is ‘Bad News.’
The Palin cover this week may be one of the most egregious examples of bias. Rather than use one of the hundreds of photos available of Palin where she is more dressed for success Newsweek chose to use a picture obtained from a Runner's World photo shoot where the former governor is wearing running shorts. Couple that with the headline of "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?" -She's Bad News For the GOP - And Everyone Else Too! and it becomes obvious that the story was more about capitalizing on Palin's sex appeal than good journalism. Even the lefties on "The View" thought the photo was sexist.
Newsweek has responded to the criticism of the photo with this statement;
Today, Newsweek's Editor Jon Meacham has responded to critics. "We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do,” Meacham said. "We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard." Somehow I doubt that we will be seeing Barney Frank or Nancy Pelosi in similar attire on the cover of Newsweek anytime soon despite the magazines's claim of being gender-neutral.
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Bob,
That would make about as much sense as talking about military life with Cheney, O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Rove or Michael Savage.
You don’t discuss important issues with people who have no knowledge of them, and there are really no educated and credible climatologists denying climate change.
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Newsweak blindly follows the MSM edict “say nothing bad about our socialist heroes, never mind any facts or real journalism” Newsweak—if Al Gore is the thinking mans thinking man why does he refuse to debate any scientist that disagrees with him on global warming/cooling /climate change??