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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewsweek Honcho Thinks Gays Can Be 'Cured'? Behind New Owners' Strange Ties to Controversial Pastor
http://www.alternet.org/media/newsweek-honcho-thinks-gays-can-be-cured-behind-new-owners-strange-ties-controversial-pastorIt was meant to herald the triumphant return to newsstands of a venerable 80-year-old American media institution with a proud journalistic record.
Newsweeks 4,500-word relaunch cover story on Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, a California engineer who, it claimed, was the creator of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, gripped readers from Silicon Valley to Manhattan and delivered a frenzy of follow-up coverage to rival some of the biggest scoops of the magazines heyday.
Everyone is really excited to start this new chapter, Johnathan Davis, Newsweeks new co-owner, told the Guardian earlier this month, before it went to press. Its a great honour. Newsweek has a storied history of great storytelling and hard-hitting journalism both in the United States and around the world.
Since then, however, the article has come under an onslaught of criticism, as Nakamoto unconditionally denied that he was "the face behind bitcoin," as Newsweeks cover had proclaimed, and said that he had not even heard of the currency until he was contacted by a reporter.
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Newsweek Honcho Thinks Gays Can Be 'Cured'? Behind New Owners' Strange Ties to Controversial Pastor (Original Post)
xchrom
Mar 2014
OP
Of course the Nakamoto story was made up, superstition based hate mongers lie with
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2014
#2
One can't expect a lot from a man who doesn't know how to spell his own name
Spider Jerusalem
Mar 2014
#3
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)1. They'll either run it into the ground
or it will morph into a publication with a niche readership of like minded fundamentalists.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)2. Of course the Nakamoto story was made up, superstition based hate mongers lie with
impunity. All bigots are also liars.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)3. One can't expect a lot from a man who doesn't know how to spell his own name
"Johnathan"? Really?
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)4. I think both Newsweek and Time will soon
go the way of the Saturday Evening Post and Look magazine anyway.Seriously,does anyone under 70 still read and subscribe to either?