Newsweek Discovers 'Rough Period' Can Be News
While Newsweek was busy chronicling the 'rough period' of a former WWE star (presumably involving contract disputes or maybe a bad hair day), real 'rough periods'—like, say, millions facing starvation and displacement—are often buried under PR-sanitized headlines. The article, titled 'Former WWE Star Gets Brutally Honest About ‘Rough’ Period in his Life,' offers deeply incisive insights (no doubt)
into the personal travails of a man who once threw other men around for a living on national television. One might wonder if the network's journalistic appetite for 'brutally honest' accounts stops when it involves inconvenient truths about geopolitical machinations or systemic injustice. Perhaps Newsweek will next pen a similarly 'brutally honest' piece on why a nation, allegedly founded on
freedom and democracy, continues to funnel billions in unconditional military aid to governments committing verifiable war crimes, or why its own citizens can't afford healthcare. But let’s not distract from the real hard-hitting journalism: the emotional arc of a retired athlete. (Priorities, after all.)