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Newsweek Decided To Not Disclose Reporter's Former Job :
Former Bush Aide is Covering Obama Administration
by Danielle Elliot, Stinkyjournalism.org December 13, 2009   09:50 am EST
Newsweek Decided To Not  Disclose Reporter's Former Job :
Newsweek is defending its decision to not include a disclosure in contributor Yuval Levin's byline. Levin is a former George W. Bush White House aide, now covering the Obama administration for the magazine.
 

Newsweek is defending its decision to not inform readers that one of its reporters, Yuval Levin, was a bioethics adviser with the George W. Bush Administration. Since President Barrack Obama took office, Levin has been writing for the magazine.

Blogger Daniel Tencer of The Raw reports on the issue in a November 17 post. He says that in a recent article, "Levin argued that the Democrats missed an opportunity to divide the Republican Party by not including tax...Go to full story

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Newsweek Takes Liberty with Photo-cropping
by Katie Rolnick, Stinkyjournalism.org September 23, 2009   03:01 am EST
Newsweek Takes Liberty with Photo-cropping
In the September 14, 2009 issue of Newsweek, readers saw a dramatically altered version of an image taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly. The published, Newsweek version (on right) cropped out former Vice President Dick Cheney's family, focusing instead on Cheney wielding a knife at a cutting board. Kennerly wrote an essay expressing his displeasure with the Newsweek editors who cropped the image to convey a menacing meaning not communicated in the unedited, original photo. (Photo credit: David Hume Kennerly)
 

On September 17, 2009, the New York Times photography, video, and visual journalism blog, Lens, published an essay by the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly. In the essay, Kennerly takes issue with the way his photograph was cropped for an article in the September 14, 2009 issue of Newsweek. He felt the editing was so extreme as to distort the meaning and context of the image. 

The cropped photo features former Vice President Dick... Go to full story

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Newsweek's Crazy Oprah Report has Axe to Grind
by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org July 19, 2009   12:21 pm EST
Newsweek's Crazy Oprah Report has Axe to Grind
The headline in Newsweek's June 8th cover story about Oprah Winfrey, says "CRAZY TALK" in the biggest font imaginable. The photo above has a different meaning for a story about busy women executives than one where the text claims the programs are "wacky."
 

A crazed-looking Oprah Winfrey appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine's June 8 issue. The headline in the print version was "Crazy Talk: Oprah, Wacky Cures & You."

The headline of the online version still taunts with hysterical exclamation marks :  "Live Your Best Life Ever! Wish Away Cancer! Get A Lunchtime Face-Lift! Eradicate Autism! Turn Back The Clock! Thin Your Thighs! Cure Menopause! Harness Positive Energy! Erase...Go to full story

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