NBC Gives Most Coverage to Newsweek Cover Controversy, But Uses it to Paint Bachmann as ‘Extreme’

While anchor Brian Williams described Newsweek's controversial cover photo of Michelle Bachmann as “clearly a misfire” on Monday's NBC Nightly News, on Tuesday's Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell saw an opportunity to portray Bachmann as “extreme.” Meanwhile, CBS completely ignored the story and ABC only provided a news brief on the topic. On Tuesday's Today, while Mitchell described the Newsweek cover, she skipped over accusations that it was sexist. She did manage to include a defense of the cover from both Newsweek editor Tina Brown and the author of the Bachmann article , Lois Romano, both of whom argued the clearly unflattering picture somehow captured Bachmann's “intensity.” A statement was included from Alex Wagner of The Huffington Post labeling the cover “unfair.”

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