When You're Approval is 20% down in a Newsweek Poll...

Newsweek: Trump's Approval Rating Takes a Dive in New Newsweek Poll 

When Newsweek publishes this information, it's probably even worse than they want us to know.  

It's sometimes difficult to tell whether the writers for this publication don't really know much about how the Constitution works, along with the limits on Presidential power, or whether they are deliberately biased, knowing that most of their readers are ignorant about how the Constitution works.  Newsweek has had an almost hopeless right wing bias for decades, going back to the days of the Johnson and Nixon Administrations.  

The editorial positioning of Newsweek seems to follow public opinion, rather than simply putting the facts in place and letting readers make up their mind that way.  The position that their editorial staff took on the Vietnam War is probably one of the best examples of that, going from a very Pro-War, Pro-US policy position at the beginning, eventually ending up taking a critical stand as public opinion shifted.  They did not have anywhere near the influence on public opinion as the three major television networks and the major daily newspapers did. 

In the Media Paradigm Shift We Are Experiencing, If Newsweek is Willing to Publish Bad News on Trump, it Must Be Really Bad

I'm not a bellwether of Newsweek readers.  I used to be a subscriber, and got a copy hot off the press every week.  I'd read it in the evening, while relaxing after work, and was always looking for pieces to share with my high school students for current events value.  That stopped around 2000, with the election of George W. Bush as President.  That seems to be the moment when they took a hard right turn.  I cancelled my subsscription after reading some of their 9-11 coverage.  

The Allsides website, which measures media bias and characterizes it as either far left, left, center, right, and far right, puts Newsweek in the center.  Perhaps that's because it does, on occasion, publish articles that wouldn't get published or aired on Fox News or in the Wall Street Journal.  I do have to give credit where credit is due, they aren't making any excuses or softening the blow of a poll that is the single worst drop in public opinion for any President of the United States since before Franklin Roosevelt.  It's there, noted, that Trump is critically unpopular, and ventures to explain why.  

They have also pointed out that "Gen Z is Shifting Back to Democrats".  Now, there's a little bias there in that only one Pew Research poll ever showed enough of a shift in Gen Z support for Democrats that brought them to a 50-50 point, with most polls giving the Democrats a 3 to 5 point edge among the voters of that age group at the narrowest point at that same time.  So that's the poll they're sticking with, as it shows a shift in Gen Z voters back toward the Democrats.  It's the most conservative leaning data available, and certainly not an indication of a leftward shift at Newsweek.  

 I'll stick with The Atlantic, Mother Jones, and Salon.  They provide plenty of expert commentary, they get the facts straight and don't try to spin them, and their writers get an "A" in English for their ability to correctly use the language to effectively communicate. 

Developing a Resistance Media

There's a lot of excellence among some of the media sources I mentioned here, compared to a weekly news journal of mediocre quality and questionable values like Newsweek.  It's difficult for genuinely professional journalists to develop a perspective that is biased, in terms of understanding the corruption, distortion of facts, and the intentional and deliberate undermining of the Constitution and the American values on which it was written.  

But, American journalism is full of examples of times when true patriots recognized that being fair to a subversive and dangerous ideology and its proponents was also a danger to the existence of the nation, and they used their words to characterize the subversion, warn their readers and motivate them to action in order to defend their liberty.  Those aren't just nice words about history.  The fact of the matter is that we have a demagogue in the White House who hasn't hidden his subversive intentions.  We have arrived at the point when that subversive intent has itself become a fact that not only requires reporting, but needs to be considered in opposition to all patriotic American values, and needs to be reported as such. 

Newsweek, in its bland effort to be fair and centrist in its reporting, is not doing the fight to preserve, protect and defend the individual liberty that is provided to us by American values, including our constitutional democracy, any favors.