Jon Meacham, Bush Family Publicist
Time’s Jon Meacham is, once again, telling readers to think differently about the Bush family.
FAIR TV: Gregory vs. Greenwald, Snowden Anonymity, Time’s Bush Nostalgia
What are David Gregory and Andrew Ross Sorkin really trying to say about Glenn Greenwald? Unnamed government officials are telling media outlets that Edward Snowden’s NSA whistleblowing is helping terrorists. Plus, Time’s Jon Meacham has some odd nostalgia for the Bush years.
Does Jon Meacham Remember the 2000 Election?
Time has a column this week (7/1/13) from Jon Meacham looking at (gulp) possible 2016 election scenarios. The column entertains the possibility that former Florida governor Jeb Bush might run–which Meacham seems pretty excited about. As he explains, the Bush family is something to behold: Jeb long ago internalized and then lived out his family’s […]
WPost Asks Notorious Homophobe to Write About Gay Youth Suicides
In light of the recent and tragic spate of gay youth suicides, the Washington Post‘s On Faith blog chose to honor National Coming Out day with a guest post (10/11/10) by raging homophobe Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. The post, titled “Christian Compassion Requires the Truth About Harms of Homosexuality,” accused “homosexual activist […]
Jon Meacham’s Left-Right Blame Game
In his editor’s note in the current edition of Newsweek, Jon Meacham surveys the failures of the past decade or so and comes to a completely unsurprising conclusion: the right and leftbothfailed. From the financial sector to the Roman Catholic Church, it has been a bad couple of years for–to borrow a phrase from a […]
All Smart People Are Centrists–and Other News From PBS
Broadcasting & Cable (3/17/10) spoke with the head of PBS‘s flagship New York station about the recent hire of Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and former MTV and NPR host Alison Stewart for PBS‘s forthcoming program Need to Know, which is replacing Now and the Bill Moyers Journal: WNET.org president Neal Shapiro did not rule out […]
Action Alert: PBS Replacing Moyers, Now. . .With Jon Meacham?
FAIR has a new Action Alert reacting to reports that PBS‘s replacement for the retiring Bill Moyers and the canceled Now series will be headed by Newsweek editor Jon “Center-Right Nation” Meacham. To learn more or to send a message to PBS ombud Michael Getler, click here. Feel free to leave copies of your responses […]
Newsweek Blames the People
A headline over an Evan Thomas story in this week’s Newsweek (3/8/10) tells us: “We the Problem: Washington Is Working Just Fine. It’s Us That’s Broken.” Thomas blames, among other things, “our ‘got mine’ culture of entitlement,” adding: Politicians, never known for their bravery, precisely represent the people. Our leaders are paralyzed by the very […]
More on Jon Meacham’s Strange Cheney Attraction
Newsweek editor Jon Meacham’s enthusiasm for Dick Cheney is not a new thing. Appearing on MSNBC back in 2004, Meacham praised the Republican National Convention speeches of Cheney and Sen. Zell Miller: If I taught at the Kennedy School, I would take these two speeches as ur-text of partisan rhetoric. I think it was a […]
A Newsweek Story Gets ‘Better’ for Scarborough—With a Little Help From a Friend
The website Gawker (6/9/09) caught Newsweek making some sneaky changes in an online article—changes that were ordered by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, and which just happened to favor the host of a show that Meacham appears on regularly. On the afternoon of Friday, June 5, Newsweek‘s website put up an interview with Joe Scarborough, the […]
CNN’s Full Scope of Journalistic ‘Genius’
The Daily Howler‘s Bob Somerby has a look (4/27/09) at how Newsweek bigshot Fareed Zakaria “pandered and fawned in dragging out yesterday’s panel” on his CNN show Zakaria: As I was thinking about the smartest people I could gather to talk about the first stage of Barack Obama’s presidency, I thought of that wonderful quotation […]
