Partisan connections of new Newsweek owner raise concern (Dem Jane Harman+spouse)

Daily Caller ^ | 8-4-10 | Chris Moody

[Skepolitic]

Why the concern?

Everybody -- everybody -- knows that, if it is not explicitly conservative or libertarian, every output of the American media is left-liberal or socialist.

That's been the case of Newsweak and parent WaPo for decades. The only change is that Newsweak will shift from being a generic left-liberal rag with a socialist leaning to being a partisan Democrat rag with a socialist leaning.

Big deal. Though once the vehicle for analysis of Milton Friedman and other worthies, it's been at least twenty years since Newsweek was a worthwhile source of news and opinion (Friedman's column was discontinued in 1984).

Newsweak's recent subscriber base consists of dentist offices and upper income households that qualify statistically for deep, deep discount subscriptions. My guess is that the median age of its regular readers could not be less than 65.

Newsweak has an irrelevant publication for news, analysis, and opinion for a long time. However, its reincarnation as a Democrat Party rag has potential to turn it into a political campaign vehicle that is totally exempt from limitations on political funding.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks STARWISE.

The $1 sale of Newsweek magazine to billionaire Sidney Harman, who is married to a member of Congress, is raising questions about the struggling magazine's new connections to partisan politics.

Why? Weren't the struggling magazine's old connections to partisan politics raising enough questions?

Harman, husband of California Democrat Rep. Jane Harman, has long financially supported Democratic candidates and has been associated with numerous center-left groups over the past decades. According to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, Harman has donated more than $150,000 to Democratic candidates and committees over the past twenty years. (He also gave $6,000 to independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman in 2005-2006, $4,600 to Maine Sen. Susan Collins and $2,000 to then-Colorado Rep. Scott McInnis in 2001, both Republican).

That's interesting in that Lieberman was targeted by the Soros- checkbook-based agenda groups, which pushed Ned Lamont onto the unsuspecting CT public via the primary (which always swings very left), making me wonder who really is behind this not-left-enough rich a-hole with the ugly loudmouthed domestic partner.

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[TheOldLady]

"Partisan connections of new Newsweek owner raise concern"

LOL! WHY? What's going to change?