Newsweek and writers

There are those who are growing increasingly angry with Newsweek for some of the "reporters" they employ. Some have gone so far as to call them a mouth-piece for the left, "moveon.org" style. Professing journalism myself, I always find this kind of talk interesting. I know I have shared some of those frustrations and come to think of it, I seem to come away with a bad taste in my mouth just about every time I browse their web archives. Bad taste? No, maybe more like I feel I need to wash my hands after finishing a read.

I just finished reading a couple pieces, this time with mixed results.

The first one I came on was linked by Drudge and I was very interested in subject matter. Here's the link. The first paragraph has revolting levels of biased assumption! The only merit attached to it is that it has a LOT of information in it. I enjoyed it for that fact alone.

The other piece marks the first time I have come away with absolutely NOTHING bad to say. I was impressed--even inspired--by this one. Of course, this could be due to my opinion that speechwriting would be an incredible job--a to-die-for job.

Read them and judge for yourself. To be honest, this post is just yet another attempt to kill time before I get more university relevant posting going on here. You'd think that I would have access to just about all the relevant interesting stuff at Western, being a journalism major. Perhaps, but I'm going to have to be patient. I'm still getting settled in on the campus newspaper staff and it's not easy work. I can't create any conflicts of interest--this blog is one thing, my position on the paper is another.

The first College Republican meeting is on Monday, though. That's a significant thing, I hope.