Newsweek To Remove Spines From Future Publications

[Robbien]

MSM--Since its founding in 1933, the pages of Newsweek have been held together by a perfect combination of glue and staples. The binding method proved incredibly effective, ensuring that the pages would not be lost or shuffled in the wrong order.

However, all of that will change next week when the popular weekly news magazine becomes a worthless stack of loose papers.

The decision to switch to the spineless format comes amid a general willingness in the media to rollover in the face of criticism from the White House and the radical right wing of the Republican Party.

Newsweek President Harold Shain explained that it wouldn't be much of a change because the magazine never had much of a spine in the first place.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00241.htm

[knowbody0]

1. no spine

[lady lib]

2. That's good.

Sent it out to my Dem friends.

[CWebster]

3. Mission accomplished, I suppose

The issue never was Newsweek, but what they reported. But what they reported was no revelation, accounts of torture practices at US prisons were part of the public record, even if it wasn't getting any attention.

This is just the Bush administration muzzling the press, using the same intimidation tactics and entrapment they did with Rather. They target the popular media that has broad exposure and recalling that cover Newsweek put out of a sweating Bush and his mess in Iraq, is there any question why they were targeted?