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To: Sully- who wrote (80161)6/5/2010 7:34:29 PM
From: Sully-1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 90947
 
Newsweek might be purchased by conservative media company

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
06/04/10 12:46 PM EDT

Looks like Newsmax might soon own Newsweek:

<<< Newsweek’s owner, the Washington Post Company, put up the weekly for sale in May, about a year after a major redesign that included targeting an affluent audience with left-leaning thought pieces.

Newsmax Media spokesman Scott Rosenblum confirmed the bid to The Daily Caller, saying in a statement that if the bid is successful, “Newsweek would continue in its mission to objectively report the news and provide analysis from a wide spectrum of perspectives.”

Newsweek reporters are nervous, an employee told The Daily Caller, about being owned by the conservative Newsmax media company, which announced Wednesday that it had placed a bid to purchase the money-losing magazine. >>>

Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com