Newsweek
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A magazine that fell from mediocrity into the annals of incompetent partisanism.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2017-12-20 |
Examples
Some examples of FakeNews (or just shoddy journalism):
- 2014.03.06 Man who invented Bitcoin - The opening story after their big re-launch was on the man Newsweek doxxed and claimed, "Invented Bitcoin"... and he denies inventing bitcoin. First they stood by the story, then they corrected it. That's kinda a big fuck up.
- 2016.09.23 Bush lost 22 Million Emails - Ignoring that the point of their whataboutism was to distract from Hillary Clinton's high crimes of intentionally deleting government property and evidence of her crimes, while Bush's was a temporary (and rectified) transition. Most of the lies in their "Bush lost 22 Million Emails" piece are lies of omission, in at least this event kinda happened, just not in how they represented it.
- 2016.11.07 Madam President - Some were a bit outraged when a "Madam President" issue of Newsweek leaked out, before the election was over. But the truth is they worked with a partner to pre-prepared both versions of the magazine, and the partners bet on pre-printing was wrong. So this was much ado about nothing.
- 2017.10.25 Why Trump hates dogs? - Hard hitting journalists ask the big questions, "dog is famously man's best friend—but it is not this president's" And because Trump used the phrase "Couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Tennessee” it's obvious that he's a canine-hater.
- 2017.11.29 Ivanka plagiarized herself - Newsweek tried to imply that Ivanka, by repeating parts of her own speech was plagiarizing... herself. That's not how any of this works. Then they altered their headline to "recycled" when called on it. That's not how Journalistic integrity works.
- 2018.04.11 NRA, Russians and Newsweek - Newsweek claimed there were 23 Russian-linked "donors" to the NRA. Or about 1/100th as many as to Obama, Biden, Hillary. It turned out to be a nothing burger, it was $2,500 total, over 3 years and most likely just ex-pats or diplomats abroad. No evidence the NRA knew or was soliciting. But it generated front page headlines and back page corrections for the rubes.
- 2018.07.27 Twice the Speed of Light - There was the time they claimed that Virgin Galactic travelled twice the speed of light. While just a gaffe, it's such a blatant one that it shows incredibly shoddy journalism that it ever got through. Anyone with a clue on science would think, "wait, what? That's not right". Unfortunately, Newsweek doesn't hire people with a clue.
- 2019.01.02 Trump will resign in 2019 - Newsweek claims that Trump will resign in exchange for immunity for him and his family. The opinion of a former Bush advisor (Alan J. Steinberg), as reported in the New Jersey Star-Ledger, using the tried and true method of pulling it out of his ass. Can you imagine a credible magazine reporting such innuendo on any Democrat President?
- 2019.07.22 Racist Dog - Ivanka had bought her daughter an all white dog (Husky). Newsweak linked shit-tweets by hateful readers and Clinton staffers, "all white and blue eyes is on brand. F*** off.", "The dog will fit right in.", "Does it sit and sieg heil yet?", or "everyone hates you for being a spoon fed nothing grifter who's full of s***... maybe a shelter dog would show humanity,"
- 2020.01.24 Genocide Warning - The National Socialists coined "The Big Lie" -- a lie so audacious that no one will believe you could be saying it, if it wasn't true. (And usually it's more true about you/your side than the other side). When Newsweek gets an "expert" (Trans-Activist Brynn Tannehill) to claim that Trump will"facilitate atrocities against minority groups"... based on what?
- Believe all women/Forced Hair Cutting - A 6th Grade Virginia Private school girl (who was black) accused three white classmates last week of forcibly cutting her hair... and that made national news. Now the accuser admits the allegations were false. The problem isn't just with the people who cry wolf, it's with the FakeNews media sensationalizes these stories for clicks (chasing the algorithm before fact checking).
- Biden/Abortion - Joe Biden divided the nation on Abortion and lied about a poor 10-Year-Old rape victim (who couldn't get an abortion in her state). Of course the story was created by an activist, and nobody can verify any part of the story. And in speaking to that, he gaffed multiple times, and read teleprompter directions like, "repeat the line". Then his staff lied about it.
- Friendlier than a Golden Retriever - You can't make this shit up, but Newsweek published an article from their writer (Tae Phoenix) that said she's more scared of Golden Retrievers than Antifa. Sure, because she's likely to put on a mask and beat old men with bats like they do? How many people have Golden Retrievers run over last year?
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement - ICE is hated by the far left, and gets regular stories attacking them or their supporters as evil racists/nationalists/white supremacists, for protecting our nation from destruction. You can't have a nation without borders. And the facts are that the number of people that want to come to the U.S. exceeds our ability to absorb them.
- Newsweek on Gun Control - Newsweek (or Newsweak), Asher Stockler quotes a University of Michigan study on gun-death rates and misrepresents the facts. Claims only two states saw decreases in firearms mortality and they had gun control, however, quite a few pro-gun states did as well. Many of the ones with increases were strict gun control states. And the study numbers are polluted with suicides.
- Raid on Mar-a-Lago (Newsweek) - Newsweek claimed that the DOJ was unaware in advance of the raid on Mar-a-lago. Merick Garland (head of DOJ / Attourney General) disagrees -- and after 3 days of blowback and pressure, agreed to unseal the search warrant and had personally approved it.
- Robert Reich/Newsweek - Democrats attacked Bill Barr and said he had to testify against Trump, because Barr accurately paraphrased the Mueller Report. But if Bill Barr doesn't have executive privilege for false charges, then Eric Holder didn't have it for the real charges/crimes of Obama (Fast and Furious that he was shielded against. Democrats: different rules for ye or me.
- Greta Thunberg - A clueless special-needs girl (Scoldilocks) tantrums over things she doesn't understand. FakeNews/leftist activists treat it like her opinions matter. It's child abuse. Greta is this clueless, nasty little teen (Lisa Simpson crossed with Bane) that has been ruthlessly exploited and programmed by the far left (and her Parents) to think the world is ending.
- Will Happer Climate Denialist? - William Happer was appointed by Trump, so the far left (NYT, WaPo, etc) attacked. You'd think the President put a radical anti-Science guy in charge of Climate Change study, instead of distinguished Princeton Physics professor emeritus, fellow of the American Physical Society, member of the National Academy of Science and the JASON group, and so on.
Then there's the errors that are just screwups, or Newsweek behaving as a shill for DNC:
Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb? Read
To Obama’s Gotta Go Read
To comparing President Trump to Charles Manson? Read
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You'll notice all their mistakes are against conservatives, moderates or libertarians. I have yet to find a case where their "accidents" were against a liberal/progressive or far lefty. Which shows the lack of diversity as well as the lack of quality.
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