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It isn’t dead. Simply . . . uploaded.
So it went to a website upstate where it’ll have lots of room to play with other magazines and newspapers?
I think it ran up on the roof and, uh, got beamed up into that big website in the sky
I think that we can all agree that we need Anonymous to take it off life support and let it go peacefully to its eternal rest.
What am I supposed to read in the dentist’s office waiting room now?
Your dentist has magazines from this decade???
Mine actually has current magazines, but then this is out in the sticks among the wolves, mountain lions, and grizzlies.
You guys can afford dental care?
1965 NatGeos as usual
Highlights for Children. Duh.
Oh, that Goofus! What’s he gotten up to this time?
Porn.
The real winners here are the trees that will not have to die to display Niall Ferguson essays.
Am I the only one who stopped reading Newsweek not because I was getting more of my news online, but because it started sucking?
I’d happily pay for quality long-form journalism in magazine form. It’s why I still buy Mother Jones. Newsweek and Time… not so much.
No. That’s why I stopped reading it too, many years ago.
Christ, I stopped reading it for that reason in 1969.
And I waited too long.
I stopped reading it because copies I didn’t order or pay for stopped showing up at my house. I’m really bummed I don’t get to read any more incoherent Bret Easton Ellis columns about which celebrities are “Empire” (read: total L-7 squares, dude!) or “Post-Empire” (read: in your face with an edgy proactive attitude!); it’s not always who you think!
My Dad bought us gift subscriptions starting when we got married (late 70s). After he died, I kept going out of habit, although I was not going to renew this time. The downfall started when Katie Graham died (parallel to the same thing happening at WaPo). Once Tina got it, it was just a husk filled with bullshit. I won’t miss it. I miss the old it, though.
I stopped getting all print-form media, because they are now simply unnecessary.
Everytime I peruse the sports section of a print newspaper and it lists the score of a baseball game as ‘late’ I think, it is late for you my print media friend, a bit too late.
No, the important thing is they went out
although sooner would have been better, obviously
I used to like it simply because it did its job (summarizing news for that week) with less pomposity and self-importance than Time with its whatevers-of-the-year and 100 most notable nabobs lists and so on. It’s been losing its importance for a while now, but I knew that it was really on life support once Tina Brown got her fitful mitts on it. (I don’t care how repetitive and tame A Prairie Home Companion has become, Garrison Keillor gets a lifetime pass (which, I’ll admit, probably isn’t valid for that much longer anyway) for characterizing Brown’s New Yorker by saying that he’d stopped reading it because “one’s interest in inferior work is limited, really.”)
Yes, it was livelier and less pompous than TIME, not a bad way to get your news supplement.
Newsweek had been jiggering and rejiggering its formula for some time, usually for the worse, but the long term problems were probably insoluble. Layoffs coming, of course. I can’t find it in myself to snicker when people are going to be out of jobs, jobs that won’t easily be replaced, at least not for decent pay.
The purchase of the magazine was one of Philip Graham’s brighter ideas and Newsweek gave the Post Company an international reach that the paper itself didn’t have in those days. Must have been a tough decision for Donny to sell it off when the time came.