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Obama Isn't Our 1st Gay President

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:22:24 CDT

Tina Brown would like you to think that our 44th commander in chief is the "First Gay President." Jim Loewen would like you to know that title actually belongs to our country's 15th leader, James Buchanan. After taking a moment to smack Newsweek for the "cheap sensationalism" of its buzzy...

Newsweek Strikes Back With 'Gay President' Cover

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:00:05 CDT

Take that, Time magazine. A week after Time 's controversial breastfeeding cover , Newsweek has fired back with a cover article on President Obama's support for gay marriage—with the headline, "The First Gay President," and a rainbow-colored halo over Obama's head, Politico reports. Apparently Newsweek editor Tina Brown meant it...

Bloggers Give Newsweek S&M Story a Good Spanking

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:14:46 CDT

Author Katie Roiphe has whipped up a storm with her Newsweek /Daily Beast cover article on submissive female sex fantasies. Roiphe's argument: "that huge numbers of women are eagerly consuming myriad and disparate fantasies of submission"—think Girls , A Dangerous Method , Fifty Shades of Grey —"at a moment when women...

Newsweek Retracts Pelosi's Anti-Obama Quote

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:35:05 CDT

So maybe President Obama can see around corners after all? Newsweek editors abruptly pulled a quote today they had attributed to Nancy Pelosi , about how Obama's team "can’t see around corners; they anticipate nothing." Turns out those words were written by a reporter in her notes and misinterpreted as part...

Stewart Scolds Newsweek for 'Crazy Eyes' Bachmann

Rob Quinn — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:02:05 CDT

Newsweek 's Michele Bachmann story this week came with a highly unflattering cover photo, even drawing criticism from some of the GOP hopeful's foes. Jon Stewart also slammed the magazine for the choice of photo, accusing Newsweek of adding weight to conservative claims of liberal media bias. "One thing you...

Newsweek 's Doctored Di Cover 'Creepy,' 'Crude'

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:36:06 CDT

Not exactly what you'd expect from the pre-Tina Brown Newsweek : A Photoshopped Princess Diana strolls on the cover with daughter-in-law Kate Middleton, as the magazine imagines what Di would be like today, at age 50. (Brown speculates that she'd still be "great-looking," with the help of some Botox, would have...

Newsweek: Americans Will Work for 25 Cents an Hour

Mark Russell — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:13:00 CDT

The minimum wage in America may officially be $7.25, but in fact there are Americans willing to work online for as little as 25 cents per hour—a fraction of the amount residents of Germany ($3), the Philippines ($2.25), and even India ($1) agreed to toil for. Or...

New Newsweek Not a Total Flop

Kate Schwartz — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:18:37 CDT

Jack Shafer may have called Tina Brown's Newsweek "a meal that a homeless person would walk away from," and the April 12 issue may have had a slim six ads , but score one for Brown: Her Newsweek isn't festering at the newsstand. Sales of Brown's first issue, featuring Hillary Clinton,...

Newsweek Chairman Sidney Harman Dead at 92

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:08:00 CDT

Sidney Harman, the stereo equipment magnate who bought Newsweek for $1 last year, has died at what his family calls the "young age of almost 93." In a statement posted on the Daily Beast , the family notes that Harman learned he had acute myeloid leukemia one month ago and died...