I used to get it but canceled it because it was ridiculously Democrat.

Nobody wants to watch or read or listen to the left (Government) media. Sorry but you people stink. You’re selling out a country and it’s people for what? I still don’t get it. What do you expect you are going to be doing in this ‘new” world order? Once they are finished with you you’ll be joining the same food lines and wondering what happened. Dopes! At least we know what is at stake and are fighting. I’m wondering how many will actually help all of you survive? An intereting thought eh?

Why isn’t anyone telling the public that “When you tax the rich you hurt the poor”. The rich, if heavily taxed, will move to a lower tax area or stop inventing in the business and jobs that would have been created never happen. The ignorant public are never given this truth.

I AM THRILLED BUT MY PARAKEETS ARE SADDENED. THEY ARE GOING TO MISS THAT COMMUNIST RAG.IF YOU WANT TO SEE NEWSWEAK AT THE HEIGHT OF HATE AMERICA. GET THE DECEMBER 7TH ISSUE IN JAPANESE WHERE THEY SHOW AN AMERICAN FLAG IN THE GARBAGE CAN. THAT IS WHY GOD STRUCK THEM DOWN.YOU CAN SEE IT ON MY WEB SITE. I PUT IT THERE TO REMIND ME THAT THE MEDIA HATES AMERICA. EVERY DAY UNDER BUSH THE MEDIA SHOUTED THE BODY COUNT IN THE WAR.NOW UNDER THE REIGN OF THE ILLEGAL ALIEN FROM ANOTHER PLANET NO ONE TELLS YOU THAT MORE AMERICANS HAVE DIED IN 18 MONTHS IN AFGHANISTAN THAN UNDER BUSH’S EIGHT YEARS. NEWS WEAK IS TIED TO MARINE KILLING MSNBC AND THE GOAL IS THE SAME. LET’S LOSE THE COUNTRY ANY WAY WE CAN.
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It’s very sad that Newsweek moved so far to the Left. Though I am decidedly Conservative, I strongly believe that there is room for a real Leftwing magazine(s), as long as that magazine has integrity. It must not propangandize for the Left, but should present the liberal viewpoint honestly. Newsweek, for all their talented writers, many sincere, just stooped too low and decided that in their debate with the Right any means justified the end. Legitimate movements like the Tea Party should have been taken seriously, and investigated fairly; likewise Sarah Palin, not egregiously slandered, but presented fairly. The Left should have recognized FOX News, e.g., for presenting both or many sides to national problems, instead of slandering FOX–they had the choice, answer FOX’s viewpoints, or try to get by with slander. The Left should welcome all viewpoints possible, should be ready and anxious to debate them publicly and honestly, and eschew name-calling (Name-calling has never been a legitimate form of argument!). FOX has many Conservatives, but the difference is that they they recognize the Left, and in their eagerness to debate the Left, allow their viewpoint to be aired; Conservatives always seem eager for honest debate. Why not Newsweek, with the same attitude?. No one says the Newsweek cannot still represent the Left or even the Far Left. The loss of Newsweek, the dangerous weakening NYT, etc. is, in my opinion, a great loss to America. We desperately need as much investigative reporting as possible–and by newspapers of all sizes as well as by local TV stations–but we need reporting we can trust: The country has suffered from the unremittingl partisanship of so many of its formerly great publications, large and small. For instance, once again, the Tea Party movement should have been reported accurately, without the extreme partisan bias that has similarly marked all too much of the reporting from leftwing publications; likewise, Governor Sarah Palin should not have been so egregiously slandered (Think if those first appreances by Gov. Palin on the major newworks had not been partisan “gotcha” interviews, but honest attempts to tell America who Sarah Palin was–think of the increased respect and trust those reporters (here nameless) would have engendered!) America is much the worst for the loss of their integrity as they gave themselves shamelessly over to the lowest forms of partisanship (there are also too many on the Right who similarly result to egregious partisanship and rather vile smears tactics–but they don’t own the majority of the nation’s media!). We should be able to believe what’s printed in our newspapers and periodicals and what is broadcast on our major networks. Consider this as a plea to the Left to do the needed introspection to enable them to turn a new leaf, to dedicate themselves anew to journalistic integrity, so that the national debate between Left, Right and others, can inspire us in its continual search for what is true as it elucidates the many facits of our national problems in ways that allow the American people to once again have some faith in their news media, and most important, to our great democracy, to give the the people the means to make their own decisions on matters of great national importance! The national media should learn to trust the public with the truth!

I would never buy Newsweek, but I am saddened by its pending demise. Linking up with the Daily Beast looks like an act of despair. I have gone to its site, but have ceased. It is so, how shall I put it?, so self-adulating, a pretentious “insider” profile and politically conceited. Not much different than the Huffington Post, of limited appeal, faddish and likely to fade.

Who is succeeding. Think the Drudge Report. Think C-SPAN. The former is inclusive and responds to reader direction and interests. The latter is non-political and factual. Therein are veins for future journalistic offerings to mine.

“Graham, though, was blinded by his liberal loyalties and couldn’t bear to sell the magazine to a conservative-led group even though they had the publishing experience that Harman lacked and would have probably worked to preserve the brand, albeit with different editorial content.”

- In other words, partisan Ideology (Donald Graham’s) over Reason (sound economic practice) destroys another free enterprise business.

You right-wing loonies won’t be happy until Rupert Murdoch and Rev. Moon own all the media in the world, will you? Then you can masturbate yourselves into an ecstatic frenzy as you rule the world through domination of information. You will dance for joy when 90% of the wealth in the world is owned by 1% of the people. And have multiple orgasms when the US bombs every potential enemy into trash heaps like we did to Iraq, and we will do to Iran.

For me, the first eight comments statistically display the essence of the relative erudition of arguments from the right versus those from the left.

AN EXERCISE: Rank each of the first 8 authors as being predominantly left or right ideologically. Then rank each author’s rhetoric for its vituperation content and its ad hominem argument content using a scale of one to five. Here’s my rankings:

AUTHOR IDEOLOGY VITUPERATION AD HOMINEM
stevor Right 1 1
ucm4u Right 2 1
Jim Aurand Right 1 1
Abutom Right 1 1
ctr Right 1 1
T.Q. Right 1 1
Dan Left 5 4

NEWSREEK AND THE DAILY BEAST,I JUST DONT CARE FOR THIS DISTATSTFUL FEAST,TWO VILE SNAKES,ROTTEN OLD RKAES,AND I COULDNT CARE IN THE LEAST