CNN's Full Scope of Journalistic 'Genius'
The Daily Howler's Bob Somerby has a look (4/27/09) at how Newsweek bigshot Fareed Zakaria "pandered and fawned in dragging out yesterday's panel" on his CNN show Zakaria: As I was thinking about the...
View ArticleA Newsweek Story Gets 'Better' for Scarborough–With a Little Help From a Friend
The website Gawker (6/9/09) caught Newsweek making some sneaky changes in an online article–changes that were ordered by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, and which just happened to favor the host of a show...
View ArticleMore on Jon Meacham's Strange Cheney Attraction
Newsweek editor Jon Meacham's enthusiasm for Dick Cheney is not a new thing. Appearing on MSNBC back in 2004, Meacham praised the Republican National Convention speeches of Cheney and Sen. Zell Miller:...
View ArticleNewsweek Blames the People
A headline over an Evan Thomas story in this week's Newsweek (3/8/10) tells us: "We the Problem: Washington Is Working Just Fine. It's Us That's Broken." Thomas blames, among other things, "our 'got...
View ArticleAction Alert: PBS Replacing Moyers, Now. . .With Jon Meacham?
FAIR has a new Action Alert reacting to reports that PBS's replacement for the retiring Bill Moyers and the canceled Now series will be headed by Newsweek editor Jon "Center-Right Nation" Meacham. To...
View ArticleAll Smart People Are Centrists–and Other News From PBS
Broadcasting & Cable (3/17/10) spoke with the head of PBS's flagship New York station about the recent hire of Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and former MTV and NPR host Alison Stewart for PBS's...
View ArticleJon Meacham's Left-Right Blame Game
In his editor's note in the current edition of Newsweek, Jon Meacham surveys the failures of the past decade or so and comes to a completely unsurprising conclusion: the right and leftbothfailed. From...
View ArticleWPost Asks Notorious Homophobe to Write About Gay Youth Suicides
In light of the recent and tragic spate of gay youth suicides, the Washington Post's On Faith blog chose to honor National Coming Out day with a guest post (10/11/10) by raging homophobe Tony Perkins...
View ArticleDoes Jon Meacham Remember the 2000 Election?
Time has a column this week (7/1/13) from Jon Meacham looking at (gulp) possible 2016 election scenarios. The column entertains the possibility that former Florida governor Jeb Bush might run–which...
View ArticleFAIR TV: Gregory vs. Greenwald, Snowden Anonymity, Time's Bush Nostalgia
What are David Gregory and Andrew Ross Sorkin really trying to say about Glenn Greenwald? Unnamed government officials are telling media outlets that Edward Snowden's NSA whistleblowing is helping...
View ArticleJon Meacham, Bush Family Publicist
Time's Jon Meacham is, once again, telling readers to think differently about the Bush family.
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