Newsweek Magazine changing gears?

[Darth Wong]

During the buildup to the Iraq War, Newsweek moved not-so-subtly to the right, with some of its columnists virtually fawning over the Bush Administration's inerrant wisdom.

Recently, however, they've been changing gears, and with a pair of articles like What $87 Billion Buys and Pride and Prejudices (The French were right), they appear to have discarded whatever patriotic self-censorship they had dallied with earlier in the year.

Are there any other major magazines and media sources which have made about-faces like this?

[Vympel]

Time Magazine has made somewhat tentative steps in that direction, in my view- but it's still in apologetic "what will Bush do now?" tones.

[Peregrin Toker]

During the buildup to the Iraq War, Newsweek moved not-so-subtly to the right, with some of its columnists virtually fawning over the Bush Administration's inerrant wisdom.

Recently, however, they've been changing gears, and with a pair of articles like What $87 Billion Buys and Pride and Prejudices (The French were right), they appear to have discarded whatever patriotic self-censorship they had dallied with earlier in the year.

Are there any other major magazines and media sources which have made about-faces like this?

Hasn't Newsweek always been somewhat conservative politically??

[Darth Wong]

Hasn't Newsweek always been somewhat conservative politically??

With George Will on staff, that's a given. But they moved very noticeably farther right during the buildup to the Iraq war.

[Stark]

And now they're moving back ... Any significant staff changes coincide with this, or just mass-media going with the prevailing winds?

[HemlockGrey]

Observe my sig. It holds all the answers.

[Tsyroc]

From the end of one of the articles talking about the reasons for invading Iraq.

It was meant to inspire awe in the Arab and Muslim world, as former CIA operative Marc Reuel Gerecht and others insisted it should be. And in that it truly has failed. Every day we look weaker. And the worst news of all it that it’s not because of what was done to us by our enemies but because of what we’ve done to ourselves.

Because he's right.

[Peregrin Toker]

From the end of one of the articles talking about the reasons for invading Iraq.

It was meant to inspire awe in the Arab and Muslim world, as former CIA operative Marc Reuel Gerecht and others insisted it should be. And in that it truly has failed. Every day we look weaker. And the worst news of all it that it?s not because of what was done to us by our enemies but because of what we?ve done to ourselves.

Because he's right.

But what the heck does he mean by "because of what we've done to ourselves"??

[Sea Skimmer]

The media tells people what they think they'll want to hear, Newsweek is just changing with the political wind to keep sales up.

[Stormbringer]

Hasn't Newsweek always been somewhat conservative politically??

With George Will on staff, that's a given. But they moved very noticeably farther right during the buildup to the Iraq war.

They weren't really any farther to the right. They were just more open about it during the build up to the war.

[Darth Wong]

They weren't really any farther to the right. They were just more open about it during the build up to the war.

Either that, or they muzzled "unpatriotic" voices of dissent for the sake of national solidarity. There was an awful lot of social and political pressure at the time to conform to the party line.