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...He’s hardly your typical actor in the movies,” says Ansen, now a movie critic and senior editor for Newsweek. “[Most movie actors] are really only themselves when they have someone else’s lines to speak, but John is not that way. He is very smart and very eloquent and has never let his celebrity turn his head...
After moving back east, he was hired by Newsweek to write a weekly column. This writing experience led him to create his own website, borowitzreport.com, which he soon expanded to feature a short, fake news story every day that people could use to poke fun at the absurdity of the news...
...which features what it claims is a floor plan of a U.S. embassy and lays out ways to attack the ambassador's office with rocket-propelled grenades or a mixture of TNT and the rodenticide Rodex. Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Indonesia, with the recently retracted Newsweek report on abuses of the Koran at the U.S.'s Guant?namo Bay detention camp prompting protests in several cities. And Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a group of 23 Indonesians were believed to be back in the country after training at a camp belonging to regional terrorist network Jemaah...
McKinsey’s list of interviewees included leaders of several of the media organizations that have been rocked by recent reporting scandals, including New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., CBS News President Andrew Heyward, and Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker...
Ultimately, it is obvious and unfortunate that the Bush administration has taken this opportunity to deflect some of the responsibility for the U.S.’s pathetic image abroad, blaming a mainstream magazine for international sentiments that have taken years to cultivate. It is regrettable that Newsweek printed a story with false claims, but it is ridiculous to impute upon them blame for the sorry state of the American image. But to focus blame solely on Newsweek and the Bush administration for the recent riots is to overlook the actions of those who participated in the violence following...