Bwahahahahahh!!! Newsweak Heads to the Block...

[Angelhair]

Good riddance.

 

[mal]

Washington Post Co. to Sell Newsweek - Newsweek.com

Don't let the Door hit ya where the Good Lord Split ya on your way to the Pages of History, you Shameless Excuse of a "News Magazine"!

Newsweek Apologizes - washingtonpost.com

^Blood on the Hands of that Dishonest and Politically Motivated Rag...

Maybe the Best Example of what they are... Or as it will be... Were.

Good Riddance!



peace...

 

[boedicca]

I'm guessing all those cover stories on Obama didn't do too much to increase Newsweek's readership.

For generations, Time and Newsweek fought to define the national news agenda every Monday on the newsstand. Before the Internet, before cable news, before People magazine, what the newsweeklies put on their covers mattered.

As the American conversation has become harder to sum up in a single cover, that era seems to be ending. The Washington Post Company announced Wednesday that it would sell Newsweek, raising questions about the future of the newsweekly, first published 77 years ago.

(snip)

Newsweek’s circulation was 3.14 million in the first half of 2000. By the second half of 2009, that dropped to 1.97 million. Time’s circulation declined from 4.07 million to 3.33 million in the same period. U.S. News & World Report, the also-ran newsweekly, abandoned its weekly publication schedule in 2008 to become monthly.

Meanwhile, The Economist, which offered British-accented reports on business and economic news, and The Week, an unabashedly middle-brow summary of the weekly news that began publishing in the United States in 2001, were on the rise.

Both Time and Newsweek were aggressively redesigned. Time, in 2007, changed its publication date from Monday to Friday and added more analysis. Newsweek, in 2009, more or less ceased original reporting about the week’s events, and instead ran essays from columnists like Fareed Zakaria and opinionated analyses.

Newsweek Is for Sale as Newsweeklies Lose Influence - NYTimes.com


Looks like the public isn't that interested in sopping love letter to Obama.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

What matters is content, not format. Propaganda, no matter for who, just won't sell.

 

[Modbert]

What matters is content, not format. Propaganda, no matter for who, just won't sell.

Are you kidding me? Propaganda sells! Just look at Fox News, a whole network designed for people who lean to the right being told exactly what they want to hear. Same thing with MSNBC except for people who lean left.

What matters is the media. Newsweek is not the first magazine to die out, and it won't be the last. Within twenty years, mags like Newsweek will either have died out or gone online. Hell, those that want to survive are going to have to deal that way.

 

[RadiomanATL]

Haven't we had about 3 or 4 threads so far with almost the exact same subject?

 

[Modbert]

Haven't we had about 3 or 4 threads so far with almost the exact same subject?

We have had 3 or 4 threads on this exact same subject. People who are gleeful about others losing their jobs however don't bother to see if other threads exist on the subject first.

 

[RadiomanATL]

Haven't we had about 3 or 4 threads so far with almost the exact same subject?

We have had 3 or 4 threads on this exact same subject. People who are gleeful about others losing their jobs however don't bother to see if other threads exist on the subject first.

Then isn't time to unlimber your super duper mod sperm powers and merge them?

 

[boedicca]

Funny how the people who think this thread is to express Glee about Newsweek staff losing their jobs think that 9.9% unemployment is a good thing.

Newsweek created their own mess by abandoning news reporting in favor of being a Pravda-type organ. If it is providing a valuable product which people want, they'll buy it. Considering that 20% of the country self identifies as Liberal, the target audience (Adult) is at least 40M, yet Newsweek's circulation is rather paltry. Why aren't you lefties buying the rag?

 

[Modbert]

Then isn't time to unlimber your super duper mod sperm powers and merge them?

It sure is.

Looking to see how threads there are first to merge. I count 3 at the moment but want to make sure.

 

[Modbert]

Funny how the people who think this thread is to express Glee about Newsweek staff losing their jobs think that 9.9% unemployment is a good thing.

Newsweek created their own mess by abandoning news reporting in favor of being a Pravda-type organ. If it is providing a valuable product which people want, they'll buy it. Considering that 20% of the country self identifies as Liberal, the target audience (Adult) is at least 40M, yet Newsweek's circulation is rather paltry. Why aren't you lefties buying the rag?

Do you have a problem with reading comprehension? Why are people going to pay $10-15 bucks for something they can get online for free? That is why the magazine industry and newspaper industry in general is dying. Plus, it's not 24/7 like the internet.

Try to keep up.

 

[California Girl]

Then isn't time to unlimber your super duper mod sperm powers and merge them?

It sure is.

Looking to see how threads there are first to merge. I count 3 at the moment but want to make sure.

Go kick ass, mod! Whooooo hoo!

 

[boedicca]

Bub, the failure extends to the Newsweek website.

Now, why is that?

 

[California Girl]

On topic: The Economist is a phenomenal magazine. Just brilliant!!! It is by far the best magazine on the market. Some of their articles are just incredible - well written, thoughtful, intelligent.... a lot like me.

 

[RadiomanATL]

Then isn't time to unlimber your super duper mod sperm powers and merge them?

It sure is.

Looking to see how threads there are first to merge. I count 3 at the moment but want to make sure.

Let me know if you need one of my daughter's step stools. lol.

 

[RadiomanATL]

Bub, the failure extends to the Newsweek website.

Now, why is that?

Cuz the magazine supports the site, not the other way around.

 

[boedicca]

WSJ is able to charge for online subscriptions. If the content is worthwhile, some people will pay for it.

It looks like secular homilies ad nauseam about Obama just don't sell.

 

[Modbert]

WSJ is able to charge for online subscriptions. If the content is worthwhile, some people will pay for it.

It looks like secular homilies ad nauseam about Obama just don't sell.

You just don't get it. Your partisan hackery is blinding you to the changing of the times in terms of technology.

 

[Modbert]

Let me know if you need one of my daughter's step stools. lol.

Great for stealing cookies from the cookie jar.

 

[boedicca]

Doggie the Bubble Boy,

You just don't get.

Publishers that provide content which readers value are able to stay in business.