Newsweek Sale Hits a Political Pothole
Politics has once again found a way to meddle with The Washington Post Co.’s efforts to sell a financially troubled Newsweek. Sidney Harman, a stereo magnate and one of the front-runners to scoop up the magazine, may hit a stumbling block in the process thanks to a an open letter to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham by Mattie Fein, who’s running against Harman’s wife, Jane, for a California congressional seat.
In the letter, published by Politico, Fein calls Harman “an ardent foe of freedom of the press”:
When New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen learned of the government’s warrantless Surveillance Program targeting American citizens on American soil, Congresswoman Harman attempted to kill the story to cover-up.
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