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NBC Gives Most Coverage to Newsweek Cover Controversy, But Uses it to Paint Bachmann as 'Extreme'

While anchor Brian Williams described Newsweek's controversial cover photo of Michelle Bachmann as "clearly a misfire" on Monday's NBC Nightly News, on Tuesday's Today, correspondent Andrea ...

Newsmag Double Standard: Two Cover Stories and 15 Pages vs. 160 Tiny Words

A congressman is caught sending dirty messages to young people. If it's 2006 and the congressman is Republican Mark Foley, Time and Newsweek reacted with massive coverage. But if it's 2011 and the ...

NBC Sympathizes with Disgraced IMF Chief, Promotes Conspiracy Theory He Was 'Set Up'

While reporting on the sexual assault case against International Monetary Fund Chairman Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday's Today, NBC correspondent Jeff Rossen noted how the would-be Socialist ...

Ex-Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham Links Civil War to 'Neo-Confederate' Conservatives

Writing in the April 10 edition of Parade magazine, former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by linking modern conservatives to the old Confederacy ...

Newsweek Writer Claims Income Inequality to Blame for Americans Failing Citizenship Test

Appearing on Tuesday's CBS Early Show, Newsweek senior writer Andrew Romano touted a survey in the magazine's latest issue showing that 38% of Americans failed the U.S. citizenship test and ...

Donald Rumsfeld Condemns False Newsweek Story on Koran Flushing: You Can't Apologize to the Dead

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared on Tuesday's Hannity and recounted the harm Newsweek did in 2005 with a false report about U.S. soldiers flushing a Koran down the toilet at ...

PBS's Meacham: Why 'Lionize' Reagan Who 'Treated the Poor Poorly'?

On Friday's Need to Know program on PBS, co-host Jon Meacham - formerly of Newsweek - seemed to agree with HBO filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's characterization of former President Ronald Reagan as ...

Wash Post's Ezra Klein: Obamacare is 'Best Thing' Dems Have Done 'In a Generation'

Appearing as a guest on Friday's Countdown show on MSNBC, the Washington Post's Ezra Klein defended Obamacare and warned Republicans against attempting to repeal the law as he contended that some ...

Newsweek's Thomas: GOP 'Selling Smoke and Mirrors,' Peterson Mocks 'Free Lunch'

On Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, host Gordon Peterson used the term "free lunch" to mock Republicans who wish to avoid tax increases while trying to restrain the federal budget deficit. ...
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