Posted By: AndyO @ 07/07/2008 12:34:54 PM
Comment: I'm concerned about "What Newsweek Thinks You DON'T Need to Know" based upon this quote from Mr. Jon Meacham in this morning's New York Times:
???I think there???s a kind of Bush-bashing fatigue out there.??? -
Ugh. This is how Jon Meacham explains his decision not to cover a popular best-selling book ???The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,??? by best-selling author Vincent Bugliosi. There is a news media blackout on this book.
Jon Meacham should be very emabrassed by this.
First off, Mr Meacham, criticism of the President is not "bashing." Frankly, I expect that formulation from Republican partisans, not news executives at major outlets. (How PRAVDA of you).
And, Mr Meacham, YOU might be tired of reporting criticism of the President and you obviously seek to supress such news (despite it being, you know, YOUR JOB!). However, for a well-functioning American system, we need our press to tell us of popular criticisms of the King, er, President.
It's also remarkable that Newsweek did not suffer such fatigue when Clinton was President. Here's what I find when I search on Vincent Bugliosi on your web site:
"The first of these volumes, scheduled to appear at the rate of one a month, is already out: Vincent Bugliosi on the Paula Jones case--which, unluckily, has just become a nonstory."
Newsweek: Criticism of a Republican President? Oh, we're too fatigued to report that. Criticism of a Democratic President? Oh, we can't get enough!
NYT link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/business/media/07bugliosi.html
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