{"id":180,"date":"2007-09-16T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/09\/yo-newsweek.html"},"modified":"2007-09-16T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T13:59:21","slug":"yo-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/09\/yo-newsweek.html","title":{"rendered":"Yo, Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read this:<\/a><\/p>\n

I have quite an announcement to make. I am now a reporter for Newsweek magazine! I always felt a call to be a reporter for Newsweek magazine so this is something very important for me. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am at this news and the impact this has on my life and hopefully the lives of others.
\nThe hierarchy of Newsweek magazine though doesn’t recognize my call to be a reporter for them. So I had to have reporter credentials given me by an Ecumenical magazine group that also see themselves nevertheless as Newsweek employees and don’t recognize the authority of Newsweek’s editors to make hiring decisions.
\nSo for my first article as a Newsweek employee I am going to interview myself, this way nobody can charge me with making up interviews as in the case of ABC’s Alexis Debat.
\nNEWSWEEK: What made you decide to become a Newsweek reporter?<\/strong>
\nJeff Miller<\/strong>: It was a long process that started at a very young age. I grew up reading bad religion reporting and was always attracted to Newsweek’s egregious reporting and I was affirmed by others that I had gifts for bad reporting.
\nHave you heard from the Newsweek hierarchy?<\/strong>
\nThe reporting community I belong to hasn’t felt anything from the editors, but local stringers have informed others not to read my reporting since I wasn’t a “validly credentialed” reporters for Newsweek.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAnd then read this:<\/a><\/p>\n

Some accuse Newsweek of credentialism, paying for and publishing work only a select few reporters that conform to Newsweek’s dogmas. St. Jimbob of the Apokalypse, chairman of We Are Magazine, claims that Newsweeks denials of Miller’s credentials are futile. “When will the editors wake up and realize that, credentialed or not, it’s the reporters that are Newsweek? The editors only have the power we allow them, so we’re pressing for a more horizontal model of the magazine.” Apokalypse went on to note “we are striving to write into our calling to be Magazine, and it’s really for the good of Newsweek to be inclusive enough to recognise us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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