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February 11, 2012

'War on Christians' Just Fear Mongering?

Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

For several years now (click here for an early post) I have been asking a rather basic journalistic question: “What is Newsweek?”

By which I mean, of course, “What has Newsweek become?”

It used to be a standard weekly magazine that contained a mixture of hard news and commentary. Readers knew when they were reading news, for the most part, and they knew when they were reading commentary, in part because commentary pieces featured column logos or an “analysis” or “commentary” alert.

It was all so quaint and old-fashioned.

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