Okay, I finally get it. Newsweek, like a bratty little child that keeps tugging at mommy's dress, has become America's new scandal-screaming National Enquirer.
Following two loathsome recent covers—featuring Sarah Palin stating "I Can Win," and gruesome twosome Kate Middleton and a dead Princess Diana—this week the rag is offering a cover "news" story interviewing opportunistic serial liar hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo, who has
come out of hiding to "reveal" her allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. She also spoke with ABC News Monday morning.Newsweek all but baits the story by calling her account "vivid and compelling." Much of her description of the events reads like a teen-age-written pulp porn novel.
This is certainly not journalism. Newsweek is peddling sensationalism to sell a mag that has lost all relevance. What a sad state of affairs, devolving from one of the nation's leading objective news weeklies to a scandal sheet. Please, Newsweek, wouldn't you rather die with dignity?
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