Flashback: Newsweek as Obamaweek; Might It Help Explain Their Downfall?
Published: 5/5/2010 3:08 PM ET
News today that the Washington Post Company has put the money-losing
Newsweek up for sale reminded me of how during the last
presidential campaign the "news" weekly repeatedly showcased their
favorite candidate, Barack Obama, on the cover.
Might such obvious blatant liberal advocacy, which anyone could see
in the grocery store checkout line, help explain its decline in fortunes
- in credibility followed by finances?
By July of 2008, the Weekly Standard had dubbed the magazine "ObamaWeek"
in creating this graphic of six covers which had already featured
Obama's image.
