Is Newsweek a conservative magazine?

[LAS14]

I was never a subscriber. I read it in doctor's offices. But I sort of had it as middle of the road in my mind. From what I see in Google News I'm thinking I may be wrong?

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[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. It is now

I think it was more balanced until a year or so ago.

[PortTack]

2. Oh yes..was once owned by WaPo...

Regular contributors: Gingrich, Dershowitz, chad wolf, eastman

[hlthe2b]

3. It is now. It was sold some time ago and all the formerly good reporters went elsewhere.

It only exists in online form.

https://newrepublic.com/article/158968/newsweek-rise-zombie-magazine
Newsweek and the Rise of the Zombie Magazine
How a decaying legacy magazine is being used to launder right-wing ideas and conspiracy theories.

Writing in The Columbia Journalism Review last year, Daniel Tovrov depicted Newsweek, once one of America’s most distinguished magazines, as a shell of its former self. All that was left was clickbait, op-eds from the likes of Nigel Farage and Newt Gingrich, and a general sense of drift. “Nobody I spoke to for this article had a sense of why Newsweek exists,” Tovrov wrote. “While the name Newsweek still carries a certain authority—remnants of its status as a legacy outlet—and the magazine can still bag an impressive interview now and then, it serves an opaque purpose in the media landscape.”

Last week, Newsweek suggested one possible purpose: The legitimization of narratives straight out of the right-wing fever swamps. An op-ed written by John Eastman, a conservative lawyer and founding director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, coyly suggested that Kamala Harris, who was born in California, may not be eligible to serve as vice president because her parents were immigrants. It was, as many pointed out, a racist attack with no constitutional merit, on par with the birther conspiracy theory that claimed Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Within a few hours, Eastman’s op-ed was being brandished by President Trump, who told reporters he had “heard” Harris may not be eligible to serve.

[lagomorph777]

4. It took a hard turn to the right a couple of years ago.

[Lochloosa]

5. I was getting notifications from them. Cancelled that a few months ago.

Right wing spin only.

[pwb]

6. News that is a week old

is conservative yeah. I think it slants Puke mostly.

[Greybnk48]

7. In the past (1970's-80's), Time leaned right, Newsweek leaned left, so

I always subscribed to Newsweek, and my ex-husband got Time.

I'm not sure how they are now, but I'm curious to find out.

[dsp3000]

8. Yes and its borderline fake news now.

I remember we used to get newsweek delivered to our house as a teenager and thought it was on the caliber of time (in my teenager brained head). I guess it nose dived at some point.

[Aristus]

9. Right wing rag that was once a respected news publication.

For me, most memorable for the greatest headline in newsmagazine history:

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. The Opinion section is far right - run by a "Claremont Institute" guy

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215316216#post5 .

A conservative "Never Trump" opinion on the Claremont Institute: How the once-distinguished conservative think tank plunged into Trumpism, illiberalism, and lying about the election

The same John Eastman, noted above for writing a Newsweek op-ed in August last year suggesting Kamala Harris's parents should disqualify her from being VP, was a Jan 6 speaker riling up the mob to storm Congress:

According to Giuliani’s introductory remarks, Professor Eastman’s job that day was to explain what had happened the night before in Georgia: “How they [the Democrats] cheated and how it was exactly the same as what they did on November 3rd.” Eastman took to his task with gusto. Chopping the air with his hands, he asserted that dead people had voted and that state election officials had ignored or violated state law. But his main focus was the voting machines. According to Eastman, the “old way” of doing fraud “was to have a bunch of ballots sittin’ in a box under the floor,” but now “they put those ballots in a secret folder in the machines.”From there, Eastman’s theory goes like this: When 99 percent of the vote was in, the Democrats pulled a trick. By this point they knew who had and hadn’t voted, and they knew how many more votes would be needed for Democrats to take the lead in the count. So they paused the counting, took out their stash of electronic ballots, matched each of “those unvoted ballots with an unvoted voter,” and “put them together in the machine,” marked as Democratic votes. “And voila! We have enough votes to barely get over the finish line. We saw it happen in real time last night, and it happened on November 3rd as well!” At one point he elaborated: “You don’t see this on Fox or any of the other stations” but you can see it in “the data.”

Eastman, who had reportedly spent the day before in the Oval Office arguing to Vice President Mike Pence that he had authority to intervene in the counting of the Electoral College vote, ended with an impassioned plea for Pence to allow state legislators to look into these matters, so that “we get to the bottom of it, and the American people know whether we have control of the direction of our government or not.” Eastman became very animated, pumping his fists and yelling:

We no longer live in a self-governing republic if we can’t get the answer to this question! This is bigger than President Trump! It is the very essence of our republican form of government, and it has to be done! And anybody that is not willing to stand up to do it does not deserve to be in the office! It is that simple!