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...More worrying, perhaps, is the casual ease with which the equation is flipped today in Washington. Newsweek reports that "Bush administration officials now talk about Iraq's Shiites as a vital component of their plans to reorganize and democratize the Middle East. They claim that traditional Shiite Islam, as opposed to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's kind that rules in Iran, has a 'thick wall' between mosque and state." The same officials are quoted as hoping that the Iraqi Shiites based at Najaf become the antidote to the Iranian mullahs. Again, half right: The Najaf leadership headed by Sistani...
...Council," which absolved Jews of culpability in Jesus' death. But the Council "found" a lot of things; what Gibson disputed was not the resolution of the Jewish question but, for example, the abrupt shift in the Liturgy from Latin to the the faithful's own modern language. Another panelist, Newsweek's Jon Meacham, added the observation that "The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued pastoral guidelines about how believers should dramatize the Passion ... almost every one of which Gibson violates." A renegade Catholic, if Gibson is one, would be happy to diss and disobey the bishops. But what...
...concocted narrative could be seen unfolding on the covers of publications like Time and Newsweek, each of which put Dean on the cover twice (by an odd “coincidence,” on the same week each time). In August, they hailed the coming of an antiwar underdog, and Newsweek set up the central conflict that would dominate mainstream campaign coverage until mid-February with their cover title: “Howard Dean: Destiny or Disaster?” In December, the author of that August story, Jonathan H. Alter ’79, who is also...
Other fellows include Ingrid Lehmann, former director of the United Nations Information Service in Vienna and current professor at the University of Salzburg in Austria; Rebecca MacKinnon, CNN’s Tokyo bureau chief and correspondent; Seth Mnookin ’94, a former Newsweek writer; and Barbie Zelizer, the Raymond Williams professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication...
...more or less followed the shift in the media’s narrative, from the “inevitable front-runner” story running this summer and fall to the winter of doubt, characterized by a mountain of negative news, including the cover stories of both Time and Newsweek in the same week of January: “Doubts About Dean” and “Who Is the Real Dean?” Dean’s plummet followed close behind. If John Kerry pulls out a victory in New Hampshire, part of it will be because...