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*Newsweek and the Daily Beast had to do some downsizing. Instead of simply chopping from the bottom up, the execs at the publications decided to cut one of the company’s most influential journalists. Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan was laid off, but will continue her term until the end of the year, according to [...]
*(Via Mediaite) – Newsweek magazine has made headlines many times in recent months, mostly for its controversial cover stories. This week, Newsweek has made controversy again – this time for publishing a strong piece by Niall Fergusson in which he details the many reasons why President Barack Obama has failed as the nation’s chief executive [...]
*Make marijuana legal, is Morgan Freeman’s cry. The 75-year-old actor chatted about his views regarding weed during an interview with Newsweek recently. “Marijuana! Heavens, oh yeah. It’s just the stupidest law possible, given history,” he lamented. “You don’t stop people from doing what they want to do, so forget about making it unlawful. You’re just [...]
*Minister Louis Farrakhan recently responded to President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage calling him “the first president that sanctioned what the scriptures forbid,” according to a video posted by the Nation of Islam’s, Finalcall.com. [Scroll down to watch.] During an address at the California Convention Center on Sunday, the Nation of Islam leader also ridiculed [...]
*Just days after Time magazine’s controversial breastfeeding cover, Newsweek’s May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country’s “first gay president” – complete with a rainbow halo over his head. The accompanying cover story was written by openly gay political blogger Andrew Sullivan. His cover story is not yet online, but in a blog post published [...]
*Everyone should know by now that Jerry Springer thrives on controversy. He’s made a career out of controversy. From gay couples fighting with transvestite lovers to housewives fighting their husband’s midget lovers, Springer has taken on controversy–with bodyguards surrounding him and his talk show guests–with ease. Why would Fox News think they would be a [...]
*The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview published in Newsweek that he appeared as a “crazy man” and attacked her when she entered his room. Nafissatou Diallo also gave the newsmagazine and ABC News permission to identify her by name, reports [...]
*Many women do not like to report a rape because of the humiliation they suffer in the process of getting their rapist put behind bars. But, the problem is that it’s a difficult process and the woman, depending on the circumstances surrounding the rape, has a hard time proving her own innocence. Rape cases have a [...]
*Tiger Woods, in a first-person essay published Wednesday, said he’s “regaining the balance that I’d lost” before his car accident a year ago sent his life spiraling downward. In a first-person op-ed piece posted by Newsweek, titled “How I’ve Redefined Victory,” Woods wrote about how much his life was out of balance and his priorities [...]
*Andrew Breitbart, who posted the now infamous edited video that caused former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod to be branded as a “racist” and lose her job is now changing his tune somewhat. “If I could do it all over again, I should have waited for the full video to get to me,” Breitbart told Newsweek [...]
*In a Newsweek cover story titled “The Reinvention of the Reverend,” writers Allison Samuels and Jerry Adler give their perspective of the “indefatigable” Al Sharpton who still has work to do and what his evolution tells us about race and politics in Obama’s America: If the Rev. Al Sharpton didn’t exist, he would have had [...]
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