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Obama to Pen Cover Story on Haiti and the Earthquake for Newsweek
WSJ ^ | January 14, 2010 | Russell Adams

Posted on 01/14/2010 4:04:49 PM PST by Baladas

Like at a lot of publications, Newsweek was forced to start its week over when the earthquake hit Haiti.

Give the magazine credit for an artful recovery. The Washington Post Co.-owned publication has tapped President Barack Obama to pen a cover story on Haiti for the Jan. 25 issue hitting newsstands on Monday.

Newsweek was readying a story about the Google-China row when the earthquake hit. Editor Jon Meacham scrapped his plans and hit the phones in search of the highest authority he could find to weigh in, according to a person familiar with the matter. He reached David Axelrod, senior adviser to Obama, who asked his boss if he was game.

Getting Obama to write an essay about the Haiti tragedy is a coup for the struggling magazine and aligns squarely with its new strategy. Newsweek lost $25 million in the first half of 2009, and the Post Co. last year reinvented the magazine, cutting its staff and shifting its focus from news reporting to commentary.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: haiti; haitianearthquake; haitiearthquake; haitiquake; haitiquake2010; msm; obama; propoganda
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Now they've got him writing propoganda for them for a change.
1 posted on 01/14/2010 4:04:51 PM PST by Baladas
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To: Baladas

Oh Boy this ought to be something.


2 posted on 01/14/2010 4:06:36 PM PST by ColdOne ( Besides going to a church for Bidens mothers funeral, Has he gone to Church yet?)
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To: Baladas

Wonder how they will pay him.


3 posted on 01/14/2010 4:06:55 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Baladas

I wonder who will write if for him?


4 posted on 01/14/2010 4:06:55 PM PST by Carling (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.)
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To: Baladas

I wonder who will write it for him?


5 posted on 01/14/2010 4:07:08 PM PST by Carling (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.)
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To: Baladas

“Hey, Bill, how ya doin’?

“Are you busy this weekend?


6 posted on 01/14/2010 4:07:30 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Baladas

I guess Zero’s teleprompter can type as well.


7 posted on 01/14/2010 4:07:35 PM PST by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Baladas

What is the title of the story? How the Chinese beat us to Haiti with their rescue team?


8 posted on 01/14/2010 4:09:18 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: Baladas

Most of their stuff already comes from the “administration.”


9 posted on 01/14/2010 4:09:23 PM PST by clintonh8r (Obama's America: we treat citizens like terrorists, and terrorists like citizens.)
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To: Baladas

just hook up the teleprompter —— Obambi can read his little “essay” over the phone to Meacham


10 posted on 01/14/2010 4:09:48 PM PST by Enchante (Do we really send captured TERRORISTS off to Saudi-land and Yemen so they can be "REHABILITATED"?)
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To: Carling

Let’s hope it’s that jejune speech writer of his.


11 posted on 01/14/2010 4:09:48 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Baladas

Wonder who’s gonna write it? Ayers?


12 posted on 01/14/2010 4:09:49 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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To: Baladas

“Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,”

13 posted on 01/14/2010 4:10:00 PM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: Carling
I wonder who will write it for him?

I guess this means this edition of Newsweak will be like his writings from his college and law school days: not available.

14 posted on 01/14/2010 4:10:03 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Baladas
BOLO for Bill Ayers.............

Fail-Zero-One Big Ass Mistake America...etc

15 posted on 01/14/2010 4:10:12 PM PST by Seeking the truth (Ocents.com - You Lie & Socialist stamps, tees, mousepads, bumper stickers....etc)
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To: Baladas

>Getting Obama to write an essay about the Haiti tragedy is a coup for the struggling magazine and aligns squarely with its new strategy. Newsweek lost $25 million in the first half of 2009, and the Post Co. last year reinvented the magazine, cutting its staff and shifting its focus from news reporting to commentary.

So Newsweak wants to lose MORE money?


16 posted on 01/14/2010 4:10:45 PM PST by max americana
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To: Baladas

Presumably the editors will have scrubbed it of all the misspellings and grammatical errors...


17 posted on 01/14/2010 4:11:01 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
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To: Carling

Bingo! He’s gotta find someone to do it, or Newsweek will be waiting a long time for it.


18 posted on 01/14/2010 4:11:08 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: BurbankKarl
"How I Deployed Troops Without Thinking About It For Ninety Days."

or

"Disaster Relief: The Best Use Of America's Military"

19 posted on 01/14/2010 4:11:45 PM PST by clintonh8r (Obama's America: we treat citizens like terrorists, and terrorists like citizens.)
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To: Baladas

Not that I am being overly critical...but...ahh, shouldn’t he be a little too busy to ‘pen’ a magazine article. I mean...I am NOT the leader of the free world (yet!) but I sure wouldn’t have time to meet a quick deadline like that.

I guess thats why Billy Ayers gets the big bucks.


20 posted on 01/14/2010 4:14:02 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (BOOM! Taste my nightstick! Sarah, making Shatner sound Shakespearean.)
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