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Flashback: Newsweek as Obamaweek; Might It Help Explain Their Downfall?

By
Brent Baker
May 5, 2010 - 4:08pm
News today that the Washington Post Company has put the money-losing Newsweek up for sale [1] 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 [2] "ObamaWeek" in creating this graphic of six covers which had already featured Obama's image.




Source URL: http://mrc.org/bias-alerts/flashback-newsweek-obamaweek-might-it-help-explain-their-downfall

Links:
[1] http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2010/05/05/washington-post-co-seeks-unload-money-losing-newsweek
[2] http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/340fpwwa.asp
[3] http://twitter.com/BrentHBaker
[4] http://mrc.org/biasalerts
[5] http://mrc.org/division/news-analysis-division
[6] http://mrc.org/tags/liberalmediabias
[7] http://mrc.org/tags/biasalert-0
[8] http://mrc.org/tags/obamawatch
[9] http://mrc.org/tags/newsweek
[10] http://mrc.org/tags/2008presidential
[11] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org