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...should come as no surprise that Alter—a member of the profession that charges itself with implementing this “law of media oscillation”—proved entirely right. Just two issues later, on January 12, Newsweek??s cover showed a glaring Dean with a scare headline: “Doubts About Dean: Behind the Democrats’ Battle to Stop Him.” The story’s opening showed little promise to deliver much substance on that theme—but it revealed plenty about the media?...
...back talking to four or five equally blurry members of the press at a blurry location. All the other photos were well-lit images including their subject’s faces—not a bad objective for responsible photojournalism. Two weeks later—the same week as Newsweek??s “Doubts” story—Time ran a blotchy color-by-numbers-style illustration of Dean. Their analysis, as it turned out, was about as rigorous and useful as color by numbers; it was even accompanied by two photos, one glaring, one smiling...
Which is all very fascinating, if you happen to get your moral philosophy from the glossy pages of America’s newsweeklies. If you don’t, though, you might wonder about Newsweek??s insistence that “We want to see Timothy McVeigh as evil incarnate, as Satan, as depravity in human form...Doing so allows us to place him in a category labeled EVIL with a capital E, but also, more importantly, one labeled...