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...Klein, in his Newsweek column, wrote that he had signed his novel Primary Colors as Anonymous because he wished the novel to be evaluated on its own merit, not as the novel of a political columnist well-known the media. Klein had to evade an elaborate and concentrated media assault intent upon determining the identity of Anonymous. We take our anonymity for granted and even complain about...
...News is facing competition from its two larger rivals, Newsweek and Time, which both began publishing their own college supplements this year. The U.S. News college ranking is the Washington-based magazine's most profitable issue of the year
...know Joe Klein. Joe Klein is a friend of mine. Joe Klein is no liar--or is he? I'm just one among many to whom Newsweek's Klein denied, repeatedly and with increasing indignation, that he was Anonymous, author of Primary Colors, an unflattering novel based on the Clinton campaign. At first his denials were coy, but after New York magazine offered convincing proof in February that he was the one, Klein became adamant--and even abusive--until last Wednesday, when he was finally exposed by a handwriting analysis in the Washington Post. In fact, one of his worst...
Well, this is an extreme case of why God created editors. But in this instance, Newsweek editor Maynard Parker--the only person besides Klein's wife and agent who knew his identity--seemed to have also believed in the existence of Anonymous, who had an exemption to the Eighth Commandment. Parker now says that in February, "I warned Joe that those unequivocal statements were going to cause him trouble. It's never a good idea not to tell the truth." But Joe didn't listen--the whodunit gimmick was boosting sales--and Parker didn't insist. Instead, Parker published...
...character,'' said nbc News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. "When they see one of us lying, it hurts everyone." Added New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta: "The issue of cover-up became the issue. Maynard Parker allowed something to go into publication that he knew was untrue. Here's Newsweek requesting an interview with Admiral Boorda to ask him whether he had lied about the medals on his chest. We have the same right to ask questions of Newsweek, and they should own up to their mistakes...