Newsweek magazine took a bold step by putting President Barrack Obama on the cover of their new issue with the caption "Hit The Road, Barack. Why We Need a New President."

Written by Niall Ferguson, the story explores the writer's opinion on "unkept campaign promises" by America's current president and the cover image itself, has already received over 14,000 "Likes" on Facebook, Entertainment Weekly reported on Aug. 21.

Back in May, the magazine shifted attention to Obama once again on their cover - calling him "The First Gay President" shortly after he publicly announced his support for same-sex marriage in the United States. The cover image had a colorful halo floating over his head.

Ferguson is a historian and Harvard professor who was an advisor in the John McCain campaign of 2008. Yahoo! said the "Newsweek" story was an "error-filled tirade against Obama" and that the weekly publication "concedes that it didn't fact-check the story."

The story is "blasting [Obama] for his poor economic stewardship, fiscal irresponsibility, broken promises, and foreign policy weakness. The problem? The article is riddled with so many errors and misrepresentations that it prompted scores of corrections and complaints from other publications," the site wrote.

Similarly, The New York Times actually took excerpts from Ferguson's article and proved to readers how his information was factually incorrect - "deliberately misleading readers" and conveying a certain impression about an idea "when in fact the opposite is true."

Ferguson has not come out with an official response yet to the criticism, although Newsweek has publicly stated that they do expect all their writers to research their information before giving it in to be published. No formal apology was included in their comment.