https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/09/01/newsweeks-hit-anti-obama-cover/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 07:55:49 -0400<![CDATA[Things move slowly in the offices of the Washington Post. It took them until about 2007, a decade after Matt Drudge scooped them by running the story they spiked on Monica Lewinsky, to conclude that the idea of a weekly news magazine was being rendered anathema by the Internet. (Except, perhaps to grace the end tables in dentist office waiting rooms, and the iPad was just around the corner to kill that market). So the Post decided to transform Newsweek, their once staid but popular news magazine into a combination of People magazine and The New Republic, or what Andrew Ferguson memorably declared in 2009 to be &#8220;a liberal opinion magazine written by liberals who don’t want to admit they’re liberals.&#8221; And the Post decided to make the audience for their magazine as selective, in the Spinal Tap sense, as possible, as their then-editor told an incredulous Howard Kurtz (then still also a WaPo employee himself) that year:]]>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:41:42 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2012/09/01/newsweeks-hit-anti-obama-cover-n255953