Notice anything missing from this AP article on the possible sale of Newsweek, once a news magazine?
The Washington Post Co. is putting Newsweek up for sale in hopes that another owner can figure out how to stem losses at the 77-year-old weekly magazine.
While magazines in general have struggled with steep declines in advertising revenue because of the recession, news magazines such as Newsweek face the added pressures from up-to-the-second online news. Once handy digests of the week’s events, they have been assailed by competitors on the Web that pump out a constant stream of news and commentary.
The AP doesn’t mention that the magazine made a hard turn to the left in recent years what they call undergoing “a top-to-bottom redesign”. Seems Newsweek‘s editors strategy to appeal to a niche market on the left has not paid off.
Wasn’t it Newsweek who think it’s possible to flush a Koran? Nuff said.
So, Newsweek’s editorial decision to become a one-note, pro-Obama propaganda rag (Complete with the managing editor’s comment that “Obama is like God”) didn’t pay off the dividends they had hoped for?
Who’d a thunk?
Newsweek doesn’t need a top-to-bottom redesign, it needs a front-to-back page reimagining….
I just received this week’s issue, and it’s so-thin that it’s practically-transparent when held up to the light. And much of the editorial-content I’ve already read on-line. And Time magazine is just as bad in that respect….
We used to get both by home-subscrition. We’re not renewing either this time, around adding to a long-line a news-magazines no-longer subscribed-to.
Given the Newsweek news, I’ve put up an online poll to see which left-wing media outlet people hope goes out of business first:
http://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=1206
Jeez. You use photoshop to add halos to a few cover shots of a presidential candidate and suddenly you’re “biased.” Right-wingers need to lighten up. Whatever happened to freedom of the press? This is McCarthyism all over again.