Posted on 08/11/2011 4:43:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
Media: Talk about the elite lagging behind a more sophisticated public. Newsweek, trying to overcome its slide into obscurity, thought it could grab attention by smearing Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann. Big mistake.
The smear came in the form of this week's cover story, which tried unconvincingly to depict GOP presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann as "The Queen of Rage," with a cover shot that made her look maniacal.
But if anything, Bachmann comes across as Thatcheresque in her unmovable opposition to more deficit spending. Question her opposition a journalist may do, but don't make it out as unhinged.
Bachmann explained to writer Lois Romano, "You use the word 'anger.' It's not anger. ... People are saying the country is not working." Newsweek went ahead and dubbed her the "Queen of Rage" anyway.
The cover photo alone was so bad that even National Organization of Women President Terry O'Neill, not a conservative, branded it sexist. "Who," O'Neill demanded, "has ever called a man 'The King of Rage'?"
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I think I detect a spelling mistake. Isn’t it NEWSWEAK?
I’m sure it is.
What’s Newsweak? Something like Time passing?
If it weren’t for all these editorials disapproving of Newsweek’s photoshopped cover of candidate Bachmann, I doubt many of us would ever have noticed. As it is, I doubt many of us are surprised. Yawn.
Newsweek has earned an infinitely long period of benign neglect.
Ya think they do that once in a while because no one would pay any attention to this wreck of a propaganda tabloid otherwise?
I would imagine the Newsweak outlook is that “any publicity is good publicity.” After all, that rag has been irrelevant for a long, long time.
The liberals are absolutely petrified at the thought of a president Bachmann. Just follow DUmmy comments about her.
When Tina Brown took over, she ended up putting George Clooney on the cover and then the cover story of what Princess Diana would think of William’s new wife. Now this. Tina is a former gossip columnist and she was at one point a hot commodity in magazine writing, but she has been ten years out of the loop and she has been out of touch for quite a while. Newsweek hasn’t been doing well, but she’s taking it to a whole new level of ‘low’ in regards to writing for magazines. She’s done well in gossip/society stuff, but put frankly she is in over her head with serious stuff.
This is another cover she did some time ago:
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Maybe my eyes are getting old, but I saw the cover and thought Michelle looked beautiful in the photograph. I’d love to look that “awful” in any photo taken of me.
Kate the Great. Tina Brown is a regular poet, isn’t she? Unbelievable that such stupid, no-talent hacks can find high profile jobs. I guess that when you figure in that it is for a lib rag, it all comes together.
Kate the Great. Tina Brown is a regular poet, isn’t she? Unbelievable that such stupid, no-talent hacks can find high profile jobs. I guess that when you figure in that it is for a lib rag, it all comes together.
Well, she did buy the publication, so it’s not like she earned it after years of toiling. She bought it for one dollar really and took on the financial liabilities.
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