Newsweek reporters and editors flunk Journalism 101

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Newsweek's Mark Hosenball and his editors should get their journalism degrees revoked. Today, Hosenball published a story about John McCain, Phil Gramm, and UBS.

For weeks now, John McCain's presidential campaign has faced awkward questions about the outside activities of several top advisers. Add one more name to the list: former Texas senator Phil Gramm, McCain's longtime friend and one of his five campaign co-chairs. ... Gramm is not a paid McCain adviser, but his day job—vice chairman of a U.S. division of Zurich-based financial giant UBS—could pose new tests for a candidate who has promised high ethics standards and ditched advisers who failed to meet them.

Sounds like a big deal right? Well maybe. The big deal is that Hosenball was either so incompetent (I will not assume dishonest, which would be the other explanation) to not notice that the CEO and Chairman of UBS USA is a bundler for Barack Obama. According to Obama's website, Robert Wolf has promised to raise "Over $200,000" for the Obama campaign.

We hope that Newsweek does the decent thing and puts Hosenball and his editors on paid leave while they renew their journalism degrees.

Raise your right hand. Mine is not raised.

Even dishonesty is being overly generous. Hosenball's climb to power in the leftwing media began in the '70s when he was deported from Great Britain along with fellow traveler Philip Agee for exposing the identity of CIA agents.

You remember Philp Agee don't you?

"Philip Agee, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer who turned against the agency and spent years exposing undercover American spies overseas, died Monday in Havana."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/obituaries/10agee.html

May he rot in hell.

More on Hosenball from Time/CNN, Monday, Nov. 29, 1976.

"Last week Agee, a resident of Britain for the past four years, claimed that he personally was the target of spookdom's latest dirty trick. Scotland Yard detectives knocked on the door of his Cambridge home and served him with a deportation letter. The charge: consorting with foreign intelligence services and disseminating information harmful to British security.

More surprising, the government at the same time issued a deportation letter against a U.S.-born Fleet Street journalist, Mark Hosenball, who had frequently used Agee as a source of information. Scotland Yard did not detail the charges against Hosenball other than to assert that he had "sought information for publication which would be harmful to state security."

snip

"Hosenball pronounced himself altogether puzzled by the government's action. He has been a staffer on the respected Evening Standard for five months, covering routine local fare. But for three years before that, he worked for London's Time Out, a weekly counterculture magazine, and developed a reputation as an effective anti-Establishment reporter. In 1975, for instance, Hosenball published the names and described the activities of CIA employees in Britain. On the basis of that work, the Washington Post used Hosenball as a legman on a separate CIA story."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914734,00.html

His career has largely been defined by the betrayal of his countrymen and defending those who would destroy it with his leftwing agitprop.

He and his fellow travelers and the organizations they work for are not journalists, they are propagandists. They are not the faithful opposition. They are not incompetent or dishonest. They are enemies of our country, our culture, and the republican democracy we still (barely) enjoy and they will not desist from their continued attacks and attempts to subvert it until we completely destroy them or they completely destroy us.

“A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.”

Henry Ward Beecher

I'm impressed by ilja

Now that was a great find! No, I'm not raising my hand either.

Once Newsweak realizes the oversight, the vice president who is a major problem for McCain will be replaced by the CEO who will be described as a major plus for Obama, for it will show that Obama has strong support from a CEO with ties to the international community.

campaign.
He has patriots who are seeking to unify America.
as if.

 
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