after 2.5 years, a dozen covers, one Halloween w/ KT Couric, and a Super Tuesday w/ Chris Matthews am switching off TV beat at NYO
During those 2.5 years, Gillette became one of the most dangerous media writers in the U.S. He routinely turned up very insidery dirt, wrote up really good process stories, and broke scoops regarding several networks. There are only a few others who operate consistently at this level, so this loss is really bad.
NewsBusters’ Kyle Drennan writes about a Newsweek cover sans most of President Bush that was seen on Morning Joe…
The magazine cover showed Bush on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in 2003, after making his “Mission Accomplished” speech following the successful invasion of Iraq. While Newsweek cropped the picture to include half of Bush’s body and face, MSNBC further cropped the image to leave only the arm of the former president visible
