Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friedman shells Newsweek...
...published letter to the editor from House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois was tough: "If I were the editor of Newsweek, I would have rejected the 'rich-poor' theme [of an April 5 cover story on poverty in the U.S.] as simplistic, distorted and unacceptable." Headlined REAGAN'S AMERICA: AND THE POOR GET POORER, the Newsweek story contended that Administration policies were increasing both the total numbers and the suffering of disadvantaged Americans. The article prompted more than 900 letters, "most of them con," Newsweek Editor Lester Bernstein said last week. "We obviously struck a nerve...
...Newsweek printed the column without demurrer. Said Bernstein: "He [Friedman] felt strongly about it. He has a column. He was entitled. But we do not think we were wrong: the data demonstrated that Reagan policy so far was increasing the number of people below the poverty line...
...most stinging protest came from Conservative Economist Milton Friedman in his column for Newsweek. Describing the story as "misleading," he accused the magazine of "treating hoary cliches as received truths" and misinterpreting facts...
...this year have endorsed a nuclear freeze. It continued when the New Yorker published in three successive issues Jonathan Schell's apocalyptic The Fate of the Earth. It escalated when The New Republic responded to Schell by featuring a piece "in defense of deterrence." It spread further with a Newsweek cover story. And it evolved all out of control with an ABC Nightline special edition live from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government two nights ago that showed off satellite technology and an array of impressive guests...