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More political incest ..

1 posted on 08/04/2010 8:28:48 AM PDT by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE
"who company chairman and CEO Donald E. Graham said “feels as strongly as we do about the importance of quality journalism.”"

If you feel so strongly about it, you should try it some time.

2 posted on 08/04/2010 8:31:45 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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Newsweek might go left stream?

Shouldn’t this article have been written 45 years ago?

I don’t think it is possible to go any farther left than they already are.


4 posted on 08/04/2010 8:35:47 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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I find it hard to believe no conservative was willing to offer $2 for Newsweek;I suspect a arranged sale with all the usual Democratic Party dishonesty and securing of closets(so the skeletons stay hidden).


5 posted on 08/04/2010 8:37:04 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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Newsweak’s strategy must be to tack left and... drop off the face of the earth.


6 posted on 08/04/2010 8:37:33 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: STARWISE
Which cover is more embarrassing?

This...



Or this...


7 posted on 08/04/2010 8:41:17 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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“...new connections to partisan politics” ?

I needed a good laugh this morning.


10 posted on 08/04/2010 8:48:30 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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Incestuous Gubamint

Just what the Founding Fathers Did NOT have in mind.


12 posted on 08/04/2010 8:52:55 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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13 posted on 08/04/2010 8:53:43 AM PDT by Nick Danger (Pin the fail on the donkey)
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Doesn’t bother me. Is anyone really worried that the magazine will get MORE liberal? Readership has been tumbling for the past 10 years, so if they move further to the left, they’re going to fold, anyway.


14 posted on 08/04/2010 8:56:27 AM PDT by SuziQ
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The only thing that will change is that now everyone will know that Newsweek is a fully bought and paid for subsidiary of the democrat party.


17 posted on 08/04/2010 9:21:01 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (my favorite pastime: annoying liberals who have no sense of humor)
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Wow, that photo sure can’t be the Jane Harman that I have been seeing in photos and on TV here in So Cal these last 15 years. Looks like she invested a ton of money in plastic surgery. It would be good to see that photo along side one from a few years ago. Where or where have all of the wrinkles gone. And just look at those cheek implants.


18 posted on 08/04/2010 9:38:00 AM PDT by CdMGuy
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Newsweek is definitely worth more than $1 dollar.

Harmon should have to pay taxes on the difference between the fair market price and that $1 dollar. It’s essentially a gift.

Look, I may not like taxation, but if a Lefty is involved, they do believe in it, so pay the taxes like a good little Marxist lackey and be done with it.


19 posted on 08/04/2010 10:04:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Latest most accurate Az Poll to date, of 14 likely voters: McCain 137%, Hayworth -37% (+/- 92%))
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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.

New connections? There's nothing new here, just new ownership, same ol' partisan politics as before.

20 posted on 08/04/2010 11:32:31 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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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.

21 posted on 08/04/2010 1:26:17 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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"Partisan connections of new Newsweek owner raise concern"

LOL! WHY? What's going to change?

23 posted on 08/05/2010 6:17:49 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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