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• Where's Bad Publicity Leading for Big Oil?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:37 am

  Tags: Future Trends, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Global Warming, Newsweek, Royal Dutch Shell, Toyota, Bti, Fslr, Xom, Cvx

  August 13th issue of Newsweek has been much publicized already, with a cover story about how companies like Exxon Mobil (XOM) funded the scientific denial of global warming, sponsoring studies that obfuscated the issue for years. The accusation sounds familiar, at least in part because another industry has been going through the

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• Senator's Office Objects To Disgraceful Newsweek Global Warming Article

  Published: August 6, 2007, 10:27 am

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Weather, James Inhofe, Marc Morano, Newsweek, Blogs

  article on this subject, Newsweek owes every global warming skeptic an apology for their use of this epithet. Morano next set his sights on the fact that Newsweek only wrote about moneys going to skeptics, and completely ignored the scope of funds financing global warming alarmism: Newsweek reporter Eve Conant was given the

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• Newsweek's Attack Job on 'Global Warming Deniers'

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:35 am

  Tags: Virginia Tech Shooting, Newsweek

  Philips) in the August 13 Newsweek. I read the Newsweek article after having been alerted to it by Marc, and my thoughts mirrored some of his: Is Newsweek even a news outlet worth taking the time to respond to in posts like this? Does Newsweek, a quirky alternative news outlet, even have an impact on public policy anymore? Based on the

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• Chicago Tribune Religion Blogger: Is Just a Little Bit of Porn Okay?

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: Religion, Sexuality, Manya Brachear, Online Media, Blogs, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek

  by the Washington Post and Newsweek. But just as I ripped "On Faith" for asking if good works were preferable to being saved, I have to admit this August 6 discussion starter by the Trib's Manya Brachear is a little clumsy as well: Is church the right venue to talk about pornography? Is a small dose really that wrong? This from the

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• Are Gore and Newsweek's Climate Change Deniers' Accusations Coordinated?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 11:11 am

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Weather, Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Associated Press, Newsweek

  NewsBusters reported Sunday, Newsweek's current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic global warming skeptics as "deniers," and pointing fingers at companies like ExxonMobil as participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about the dangers of cigarette smoking.

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• SciAm Worried Newsweek's Global Warming Is A Hoax*' Headline is Misleading

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Weather, Newsweek, Scientific American

  yesterday suggesting that Newsweek's disgraceful article about climate change "deniers" could backfire given the facetious headline "Global Warming Is A Hoax*" on the cover. The thinking was that since far more people would see the magazine at the newsstands than would actually buy it and read the article, a much larger

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• Newsweek Editor Calls Global Warming Cover Story Fundamentally Misleading'

  Published: August 12, 2007, 1:25 am

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Weather, Robert J Samuelson, Newsweek

  misleading.[...]NEWSWEEK's "denial machine" is a peripheral and highly contrived story. NEWSWEEK implied, for example, that ExxonMobil used a think tank to pay academics to criticize global-warming science. Actually, this accusation was long ago discredited, and NEWSWEEK shouldn't have lent it respectability. (The company

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• Down Time: Have you forgotten that it's Audit Bureau ...

  Published: August 14, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Britney Spears, Circulation, Down Time, Lindsay Lohan, Media, Newsweek, Paris Hilton, People, Rick Stengel, Time, Us Weekly

  Have you forgotten that it's Audit Bureau of Circulation time? Whee! People's sales declined, probably because a steady diet of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears grows tiring after a...

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• Newsweek ignored evidence that Thompson overlooked GOP wrongdoing in Senate inquiry

  Published: September 6, 2007, 6:33 pm

  Tags: Newsweek, 2008 Elections, Fred Thompson, Government Elections

  in the September 10 issue of Newsweek magazine about former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN), who, on September 6, announced he is running for president, reported that a 1997 Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigation into campaign finance irregularities led by Thompson "fizzled and eventually shut down; Thompson was a near-pariah among

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• America's Best Third-place Newsweekly: 'U.S. News' Says "Fine, You Want Lists, We'll Give You Lists"

  Published: September 7, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: America S Best Third Place Newsweekly, Brian Kelly, Keith Kelly, Media, Mort Zuckerman, Newsweek, Pitiful, Time, U S News Amp World Report

  Realizing that there's no way they can really compete with Time and Newsweek, perennial bronze medalist U.S. News & World Report has decided to go with the gimmick of running one "best of" issue per...

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• Required reading: Newsweek article on "quirky kids"

  Published: September 14, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Add, Adhd, Asd, Asperger S Syndrom, Autism, Autism Spectrum, Lorraine Ali, Newsweek, Perri Klass, Quirky Kids

  Filed under: Family togetherness, Going to school, Speech, Likes and dislikesMy son has been wearing a polo shirt to school this year (it's part of his uniform) and every morning he carefully buttons the VERY TOP button. When I gently suggest that he leave that last button open because that's how most people wear a polo shirt, he sighs and says,

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• Newsweek Proclaims Woman Is 'Approved' Catholic Priest

  Published: September 15, 2007, 3:02 am

  Tags: Catholic Church, Media Bias Debate, Religion, Newsweek, Journalistic Issues

  good enough for Descartes, Newsweek reasons, then 'I think I'm a Catholic priest, therefore I am' is good enough for Jessica. And for Newsweek as well." Still, it is sure the only reason this story has been published is because it is itself aberrant behavior on the part of this so-called priest and because it tears at the very basis of

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• The World According to Greenspan

  Published: September 16, 2007, 8:11 pm

  Tags: Subprime Mortgage Industry, Subprime Implosion, Housing Market, Federal Reserve, Mortgage Industry Press Release, Housing Market, Newsweek, Greenspan

  retiring early. (PRNewsFoto/Newsweek) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 09/16/2007 NEWSWEEK: Interview: Alan Greenspan Former Federal Reserve Chairman ‘This was an Accident Waiting to Happen’: Responding to Critics Charging the Fed for the Housing Bubble and Subprime Mortgage Mess On who he’d Like to win the Presidency Next Year:

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• Newsweek Shills For Smart Cars

  Published: September 19, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Automotive News, Mercedes Benz, Smart, David Schembri, Tara Weingarten, Newsweek, Journalistic Issues, Non Political Bias, Technology

  in the United States, and Newsweek decided to celebrate by shilling for the supposedly socially-conscious vehicle. Newsweek allowed Smart's U.S. president David Schembri essentially free space to advertise in what is being represented as a news column. Reporter Tara Weingarten served up softballs such as "With just two seats, it's the perfect

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• This Thing Looks Like That Thing: At left, Time's cover from November 2005. ...

  Published: September 26, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Newsweek, This Thing Looks Like That Thing, Time

  At left, Time's cover from November 2005. At right, Newsweek's cover from this week. Presumably both women are looking at the nineteen other photographers queuing up to take this hackneyed, overused...

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