It is getting to the point where we need to ask if putting Newsweek out to pasture is the merciful thing to do.
The errors are really getting to be too much.
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A Newsweek report published this weekend, for example, referred to Kenneth Starr as a “former Watergate investigator.”
To be clear, Starr was 28 years old when Congress gave the go-ahead to the investigation that brought down Richard Nixon. Starr did indeed head a high-profile federal investigation, but that was many, many years later when he was tapped to lead the Lewinsky review.
The Newsweek story also misspelled Lewinsky.
Also, the Watergate mistake wasn’t even a one-off for the article. Starr is referred to as a “Watergate investigator” multiple times throughout the Newsweek report.
Newsweek genuinely thinks Kenneth Starr was the investigator of Watergate. Makes mistake through whole article. Spells Lewinsky wrong too. pic.twitter.com/AnArRnJLgH
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 8, 2017
Embarrassingly enough, the Starr flub comes just a few days after Newsweek retracted an entire story alleging that the girlfriend of the man who shot and killed 59 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas had two Social Security numbers.
None of this is true.
It has been a rough go of it recently, and someone at that magazine should think about either hiring more editors or closing shop. One or the other, fellas.
(h/t Sarah Kendzior)
