Dear Mr. Meacham,
You can't figure out why we have deserted Newsweek because the political correctness you stand for made it unwise for us to tell you the truth. I subscribed to Newsweek for years. I remember George Will's column pooh-poohing the China Syndrome the week Three Mile Island happened. I waited gleefully for Will's next column, which came out headlined, "As I was Saying..." Once leaving Newsweek was as unthinkable as leaving the Democratic Party. But then came your beloved Clintons, and you changed.
Here's your public face, the obnoxious Evan Thomas, trying to put the best spin on heading the Duke lynch mob:
[On Newsweek's coverage of the Duke rape case]: "The narrative was properly about race, sex and class.... We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place.... We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."
-- American Journalism Review, August/September 2007 issue.[1]
Dear Mr. Meacham,
You can't figure out why we have deserted Newsweek because the political correctness you stand for made it unwise for us to tell you the truth. I subscribed to Newsweek for years. I remember George Will's column pooh-poohing the China Syndrome the week Three Mile Island happened. I waited gleefully for Will's next column, which came out headlined, "As I was Saying..." Once leaving Newsweek was as unthinkable as leaving the Democratic Party. But then came your beloved Clintons, and you changed.
Here's your public face, the obnoxious Evan Thomas, trying to put the best spin on heading the Duke lynch mob:
[On Newsweek's coverage of the Duke rape case]: "The narrative was properly about race, sex and class.... We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place.... We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."
-- American Journalism Review, August/September 2007 issue.[1]