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...WEEKS AGO, Newsweek featured a special report on poverty in America. Ceaselessly, it alleged, the current Administration has waged war against the nation's poor, not merely with social programs discontinued or relief aid discouraged, but with a pronounced philosophy of indifference. Taking the President to task with charts and figures, of welfare programs slashed and unemployment roles overburdened, the magazine painted a picture of poverty and inequality. Its few photographs and interviews contributed to an impression of squalor and wretchedness...
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...