BOYCOTT NEWSWEEK!!!

[tonybgood]

The editors of Newsweek have created a firestorm by changing the cursor on their website to a coat hanger. Is this their way of supporting an abortion ban? Are they supporting Todd Akin and his "legitimate rape" position? Further, they have not removed the cursor or made any attempt to explain its meaning or apologize for it.

It is time to remove something from Newsweek, money!!! Do not buy their magazine, do not go to their website and boycott any business that advertises with them.The only way to get their attention is to hit them in the wallet! Now is the time to show these cowards who is in charge of the American economy: the consumer!!! Boycott Newsweek!!! Tell your friends, post it on social media, get the word out: BOYCOTT NEWSWEEK!!!

[trumad]

1. LOL

Newsweek has what--- 5 readers?

They're doing just fine when it comes to going out of business.

I give them 2 more years max.

[vankuria]

2. So glad I never renewed my subscription!

Will never by that rag again!!

[liberalmuse]

3. Not that I read that rag, anyway...

especially after Ferguson's POS story this week, but I believe you are blowing smoke up our arses, LOL.

[Ian David]

4. The coat hanger is not an anti-choice symbol. Nice try. n/t

[tonybgood]

9. Then what is it, Mr David?

Looks like an insult to women to me. What do you think it is?

[Ian David]

11. It's a warning of what happens to women when the anti-choice zealots win.

[GoneOffShore]

5. If they changed the cursor to a coathanger they're pointing up the Reps

devotion to illegal and unsafe abortion.

I think you've grabbed the wrong end of the stick and obviously have difficulty with symbolism.

Not to say that I'm a fan of Newsweek, but really, "Lighten up, Francis."

[slackmaster]

17. Nobody has confirmed the existence of a coat hanger cursor. How about a link so we can see it?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

19. Some points to consider

1) You are the first and only person I've encountered here that sees the coat hanger cursor as an anti-choice device. To everyone else, it is obvious that Newsweek (and no, I'm not a fan of Newsweek) is pointing out what will happen if the GOP's view of pregnancy and abortion are permitted to prevail.

2) With 94 posts, you have the gall to accuse a longtime poster of being a "teabagging troll"?

Alerted.

[tularetom]

6. I've been doing that my entire life and never even knew it

[independentpiney]

7. I know, some of these boycotts lately are soooo easy nt

[rurallib]

8. been boycotting since 1972

still hopeful my boycott will run them out of business soon.

[Quantess]

10. Snoozeweek is trying to be edgy?

[Ian David]

12. I was just on their site, and didn't see it. n/t

[tonybgood]

18. Here's the link to the Politicus story.

http://www.politicususa.com/newsweek-tumbler-cursor-coat-hanger-mock-huffpp.html

PS. Not a troll. Although a very effective ploy to denigrate someone. Thank you for that.

[Ian David]

21. So, Newsweek did it to be anti-choice douchebags. Not very effective.

Newsweek Tumblr Changes Cursor to Coat Hanger to Mock Women



Proving that they have no shame (as if this were in doubt after they published Niall Ferguson’s Obama article chock full of factual inaccuracies), today Newsweek changed the mouse/cursor on their Tumblr account to a coat hanger in order to mock Huffington Post’s use of a coat hanger in discussing the GOP’s party platform. Huff Po’s headline reads: “GOP PLATFORM: ANTI-ABORTION AMENDMENT, NO RAPE EXEMPTION”.

Hard to understand how Newsweek doesn’t get that the coat hanger image is not hyperbole. No exemption for rape, capiche? So under this Republican scenario, HOW DOES NEWSWEEK THINK WOMEN/YOUNG GIRLS WILL BE DEALING WITH BEING IMPREGNATED BY A RAPIST OR RELATIVE?

Newsweek wrote, “We’re retiring the mustache cursor for the day. Here’s our new one: a coat hanger.” (Warning, the coat hanger is still the cursor and it made me literally gag with pain just trying to navigate the page long enough to get a screengrab.)

Ha ha, right? Right? Do you get it? DEATH OF WOMEN IS FUNNY! Perhaps the old men at Newsweek will pardon us if our concern for our lives gets in the way of our appreciation of their startlingly archaic and misguided, misogynistic humor.

More:
http://www.politicususa.com/newsweek-tumbler-cursor-coat-hanger-mock-huffpp.html

[slackmaster]

22. OK, it was a blog vs. blog volley in some kind of juvenile exchange with Huffington Post

Two blogs I never read and have no interest in reading.

I am underwhelmed by the profundity of it all. It's not worth my time to try to figure out who did what and what was meant by whatever they did.

Thanks for the clarification.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

24. You just did the same thing in an earlier post

You accused a longtime poster of being a "teabagging troll".

"Physician, heal thyself".

[slackmaster]

14. FYI, the wire coat hanger is an icon of people who wish to keep abortion safe and legal

I haven't read Newsweek since about 1978, but I did click on it just now because of this OP.

I didn't see any coat hanger cursor.

[Capt. Obvious]

15. BOYCOTT TYPING IN ALL CAPS!

[jsr]

20. Irrelevant and worthless

Has been for years.

[dembotoz]

23. coat hanger pro life??????????????

i wear a t-shirt of my own design with a large coat hanger and the caption
"republican family planning services"

this has caused me some problems in this republican land i live it

damn
anti abortion coat hanger????
thats a good one

[stlsaxman]

25. bingo! the OP first 2 sentances make absolutely no sense...

"The editors of Newsweek have created a firestorm by changing the cursor on their website to a coat hanger. Is this their way of supporting an abortion ban?"

huh?

[ThatsMyBarack]

26. I thought you were talking about THIS!:

[catbyte]

27. Not to mention that heinous Niall Ferguson hatchet job

Newsweek is a POS.

[winstars]

28. I thought we already were for years now??? LOL Fuck Tina Brown... n/t

[KurtNYC]

29. You can't boycott a propaganda outlet

You can only boycott business where you are the customer. Chickens can't boycott KFC. Newsweek's customer is their advertisers.

Your post shows a loose grip on what boycotts are and an even looser grasp of what the coat hanger symbol means.