Jon Friedman's Media Web: Newsweek depresses me Editor Tina Brown has hijacked the legacy of the once-great Newsweek magazine, writes media columnist Jon Friedman. 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 ... Dirk Barnett Era Ends at 'Newsweek' During his tenure, Newsweek creative director Dirk Barnett oversaw many controversial covers that brought criticism but also bolstered newsstand sales, helping recharge a challenged newsweekly category. In a note to staff on Barnett's departure to The New Republic , Newsweek editor Tina Brown called him "brilliant" and credited him with helping make the weekly a "bold and seductive read and a ... 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 Newsweek Loses Creative Director to The New Republic The Niall Ferguson storm may finally be over, but the latest out of Newsweek isn't great: Creative director Dirk Barnett, who led the Tina Brown redesign of the magazine and revamped a handful of titles before that, will once again go do his thing, this time at the hoping-to-be-hip New ... More » Newsweek should know mediocrity There's comfort to be found in mediocrity. When a mediocre institution makes mistakes, there are rarely serious repercussions because … well, who would allow mediocrity to be in a position of influence? '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 ...
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Friday, August 24, 2012
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