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Elizabeth Nolan Brown praises Cosmopolitan for addressing the midterm elections, but wishes they’d take a less partisan approach:
There’s nothing wrong with publications leaning one way or the other politically, or taking an institutionally centrist position while hiring individual writers that slant left or right. Yet Cosmo is trying to portray itself as a friendly, impartial arbiter of “what’s at stake” for women in this election while explicitly pushing the DNC’s wish list. This is not service journalism, nor opinion journalism; it is advocacy. And the magazine’s refusal to acknowledge that leaves me cold.
This wouldn’t be the first time Cosmo has served as a mouthpiece for Democrat policies. Throughout the past year or so, the magazine has run numerous pieces on how the Affordable Care Act is good for women and frequently devoted social media posts to urging young women to sign up with the health insurance exchanges. “The White House says it has no formal publicity agreement with Cosmopolitan,” noted Reuters in June 2013. “But [Editor-in-Chief Joanna] Coles met with senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett last week at the White House, which is in discussions with potential Obamacare promoters including the National Football League, as it prepares for a full-scale public education campaign this fall.” And Coles was back for a personal meeting with President Obama in May 2014.
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