Be on the alert about Newsweek

[gab13by13]

it is going full tilt for TSF. Not posting its propaganda.

[servermsh]

1. Newsweek hasn't been legit for years n/t

[griffi94]

2. I've noticed their hard right turn

But that's just been from their headlines. I haven't really read Newsweek in years.

[gab13by13]

3. Same here

[Scrivener7]

4. It was kind of funny. There was some shakeup in their ownership, and they tried

being liberal for an issue or two, then turned hard right.

My theory: the right has a huge need for validation because deep down they know they are nasty, creepy weirdos. So they eat this shit up. Which means catering to their insecurity is a much easier and more lucrative task than going liberal. Going liberal requires actual reporting.

[griffi94]

6. That seems on point.

Like in 2020 when Fox News called Arizona for Biden and their viewers defected in large numbers to News Max.
So Fox recanted what the data showed and went all in on the stolen election conspiracy.

[PatrickforB]

12. They have ties to Olivet College, and this Korean Charismatic Christian guy named David Jang.

Jang seems to be tied to a company called IBT which acquired Newsweek at the outset of the Obama Administration.

Apparently Jang is a bit of a nut, because I went on to IBT's site and they are very right-wing, and advocating crypto-currrency.

Jang is using IBT to try and build God's Kingdom on earth...

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/03/newsweek-ibt-olivet-david-jang/ This talks about Jang and IBT, and the following link is to IBT so you can check it out. Very right-wing and corporate. https://www.ibtimes.com/

So Newsweek is no longer a credible source of anything. Which is too bad, because I used to read it.

But you know what's really cool? Kamala is taking her case directly to the people through social media. This thread is maintaining that the corporate owned media is no longer relevant for her. That is very interesting, and very astute on the part of Harris. Because the Millennials and GenZ people I know, including my own children and grandkids, get their news from social media, as well as from people like John Oliver, Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers.

After all, since the quest for profits on the part of these traditional media lizards has caused a pretty permanant right-wing bias (which it has), then there has to be a way to get the pure message out, one that does NOT pass through some executive producer or editor more concerned with making money rather than truth in news.

Harris' social media group is being pretty aggressive, and that is GREAT. We had a whole text thing going with my son and daughter last night, and they were glued to the Convention on MSNBC. They LOVED AOC, the basketball coach, the governors who spoke, Crockett and the rest of the speakers - this is a truly exciting DNC, and the speakers are hitting home run after home run.

Maybe the traditional media, Wall Street and those poor widdle billionaires who just don't have enough money and need another giant tax cut at our expense - hell, the whole Project 2025 plan, are now withering in the public light to which they have been exposed. Just like sunlight dries up worms.

Are traditional corporate-owned media outlets still relevant? Maybe not so much anymore.

[Scrivener7]

15. I totally agree that this is brilliant of her, and I kind of hope if she does ever do a

press conference, it is to social media instead of traditional media.

Also, wouldn't it be nice if all those competing "God's kingdoms" had a war to decide which was really God's kingdom, and they all killed each other off? Because I am seriously tired of all those "God's kingdoms" that have nothing whatsoever to do with God, and have everything to do with being degrading to brown and female people.

[Clouds Passing]

18. That's the billionaire's new thing, starting religious cults because profit profits, profits, and control

over others minds for generations to come.

[Scrivener7]

21. And the long-standing ones are really gearing up.

I'm way down the "Visions of Glory"/ Tim Ballard/ Chad Daybell and Laurie Vallow/ end times prepper rabbit hole. It's like a bad movie (and it involves a bad movie!) but it's actually happening.

[Bev54]

36. Even Pelosi is doing Stephanie Miller's show today.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

22. Bypass the creeps, Kamala

Make the shitbirds whither on the vine of irrelevance.

[wnylib]

32. The Information Age - Cyberspace and social media - are having an effect on

modern social and political life similar to the invention of the printing press almost 600 years ago.

In the 15th century, books became more available and affordable once they could be mass produced in people's own languages. Literacy levels went up. Public figures, from royalty to philosophers and religious leaders could publicly debate ideas through pamphlets and books. Centralized power in the royalty and nobility became more accountable to a better informed public. The centralized political power of the church in Europe fragmented.

Things were chaotic during the social, political, and economic changes. Some ideas and movements went off the rails and fizzled out. Others were more long lasting and framed the future of societies, including the notion that an informed public could govern itself, without a monarchy.

Today, the Internet and social media allow people to not only have more access to a broader range of information, but to create their own expressions of ideas in blogs, news websites, opinion pieces, and videos, and to start and spread political, social, and economic movements. Information is not limited to local regions. It is global.

Anyone can take their own videos of events and spread them around the world. You need to have discernment and critical reasoning to wade through it all, so there is some chaos and false info that get spread, just like what happened with the spread of books and pamphlets with the 15th century printing press.

We still depend to some degree on people who have the money and power to run media sites, like Facebook, Twitter, ISPs, Threads, Tik Tok, (and DU), etc. We also depend on an energy power grid to support the Internet and cell phones, but more people have a voice now than before. And communications are instantaneous. No need to wait weeks or days for news to spread.

Societies everywhere are changing and shifting due to the Information Age.

[UpInArms]

33. Your post reminded me of this

https://archive.ph/w5d7A

The Little Town Being Taken Over by Falun Gong From stores to Kevin Sorbo, the sect runs a quiet business empire, and it’s centered upstate.

Shen Yun, of course, is the traveling agitprop dance troupe controlled by Falun Gong, a religious movement born in China in the early 1990s that today has its headquarters at a 400-acre estate in the woods of upstate New York. Two other well-known mouthpieces of the movement are The Epoch Times newspaper and its television affiliate, New Tang Dynasty, or NTD, notorious trumpets of right-wing disinformation. Both outlets made news in June when Epoch CFO Weidong “Bill” Guan was indicted for allegedly running a $67 million money-laundering scheme and the media conglomerate’s founder, Zhong “John” Tang, subsequently resigned.

But for all the noise Epoch has made lately, much of Falun Gong’s business operates silently, like this bright, glossy shopping center on a weekday afternoon. Shelves of Falun Gong literature bank the stairhead, and the rest of the store, laid out like a flea market, offers a panoply of imported foods and kitchenware products — most from East Asia — as well as jewelry, stationery, accessories, and apparel.

Located 20 minutes east of the main Falun Gong compound, Middletown is experiencing a slow-motion annexation by the sect. Through its various arms, it has acquired over $18 million in real estate in this working-class town of 30,000 residents — not counting the many more properties its adherents and their companies have purchased in recent years. As with many things here, peel back the veneer and you’ll find Guan, Tang, and the Epoch media operation behind them. Shen Yun Collections acquired the shopping center last year from Universal Communications Network, the company through which the two men ran NTD.

Next to the New Middletown checkout counter are promotions for Gan Jing World, a “clean content” app that lifts videos from YouTube and splices them with NTD, Epoch, and Shen Yun content. Gan Jing World’s headquarters is a squat four-story office building a five-minute walk from the store, facing a fossilized factory plastered with chiropractor ads. One of the start-up’s vice-presidents moved to Middletown from San Francisco, where she had worked as president of Epoch’s branch there. Earlier this year, Gan Jing World assured an inquiring reporter from Columbia Journalism Review that the company is just “friends” with Epoch and not formally affiliated. Yet an executive from Epoch’s Texas office helpfully undercut this claim by filing incorporation paperwork for the “Falun Dafa Gan Jing World Foundation” at the app’s new Middletown digs in 2023. That entity, in turn, bought two adjacent properties from Universal Communications: a storage facility that today provides extra parking to the app’s employees, and a defunct Honda dealership that’s now a soundstage called GJW Studios.

Lots of propagandists out there

[erronis]

20. Every rag is trying out-pecker David Pecker's tabloids.

[NonPC]

26. Newsweek Still Published?

Their circulation must be in the hundreds. Who really cares?

[dem4decades]

5. I just asked last week when did Newsweek drink the kool-aid.

I had noticed many anti Democrat headlines and wasn't impressed with them.

[Aviation Pro]

7. It's the shit poster of the media

And just like every newly branded Reichwing publication (NY Slimes, Washington Poop) wants a nag race.

And with that their subscription numbers will drain down the toilet.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

23. Their subscriber base is dying off

Haven't read that rag since like last century

[LiberalArkie]

8. I think that they have always been. My dad was a Nixon Republican and his magazine that he got every week was Newsweek

[Mme. Defarge]

10. Now that you mention it,

looking back at my high school years with my Goldwater supporting father, that’s what I recall.

[LiberalArkie]

11. I read Time and my dad was Newsweek.

[sl8]

9. "Newsweek Embraces the Anti-Democracy Hard Right"

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218334749

[obamanut2012]

13. They are basically owned by a RW cult now -- literally

[Scrivener7]

17. Yes. Checkout PatrickforB's post above (linked in this post.) It has the whole story.

Pretty horrifying.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19357863

[BoRaGard]

14. Newsweek has devolved to Total Crap

Sad. They got republican brain worms.

[Dan]

16. I stopped reading/purchasing Newsweek when

They published that picture of O.J. (Not a fan, but).

[OMGWTF]

19. I was a subscriber to Newsweak (sic) until

they hired KKKarl Rove as a writer. It was many years ago but I wrote them to cancel my subscription and I told them why.

[Tommy Carcetti]

24. It's Zombie Newsweek. Newsweek in Name Only.

Not Your Parents’ Newsweek.

It’s a shame because I grew up on Newsweek getting me interested in the news. Now its formerly good name gets run through the mud.

It’s akin to the Daily Mail now.

[Happy Hoosier]

25. It became a right-wing propaganda rag a WHILE ago.

Just ignore it.

[relayerbob]

27. They've been right wingers for many years

At least 10. They also go for the sensational rather than the news. Once upon a time, they were good, but they’ve been living falsely under that banner for way too long. Sorta like CNN is trying to become

[apcalc]

28. I noticed. Also WaPo and NYT. Screw 'em all.

[Blue Owl]

29. Snoozeweek can join the NYT in the gas station toilet of journalism

[bdamomma]

30. Thanks for sending out

this message. I didn't realize that Newsweek was on the dark side.

[Demsrule86]

31. It needs to be included in right wing sources

[Silent Type]

34. Some Newsweek's articles are not trump friendly-- "Queen Elizabeth Said Donald Trump Was 'Very Rude'" 8/20.

A few more:

Donald Trump Rails at Video of Empty Seats During His Rally 8/19

Donald Trump Feels Election 'Slipping Away': Former Staffer 8/19

George Conway's Donald Trump Prediction Takes Off Online 8/17

Donald Trump's 'Asinine Comments' Criticized by Veterans of Foreign Wars 8/17

[ificandream]

35. I'm always skeptical about threads with all-out condemnation of legit media, but in this case ...

The ones that condemn the NYT and Wash Post bother me. I did just look over at the Newsweek site and the one story that raised my eyebrows was "Joe Biden's Delayed DNC Speech Past Prime Time Raises Questions," a really Fox type bullshit story based on total speculation. And it's labeled "news," which it isn't. Clearly, whoever is in charge of the assignment desk over there needs a little instruction in what journalism is.

[oasis]

37. Newsweek's Monica Lewinsky/Clinton coverage

left barely enough print space for advertisers.