The following arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
Newsweek cover: The Case for Killing Granny
National Review cover: The Creeping Culture of Euthanasia
Query which is the newsweekly and which is the journal of opinion?
The demise of the former news oligopolist has been largely overlooked, though not by those in the know. News flash: You can’t be a “thought leader” with such drivel on your front page.
And trading off the decades of “goodwill” from consumers whose only option was to switch to Time probably isn’t a winning business strategy.
Whatever the case, I see no indication that Newsweek has acknowledged its unenviable position in the pecking order of left-wing bias, save for the prominent MSNBC link on its website.
Yes, Charlie, the day will come when respectable journalists will sneer about leaving it to “the newsweeklies.” Except they’ll be right.
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I just got an offer to subscribe to Newsweek in my inbox for 90% off the retail price. You read that right: NINETY PERCENT. Maybe they were trying to do something–anything–to get attention, even if it was just by shocking or offending its potential readers. Well, it worked. Their business is failing and they have to offer its magazine for almost free.
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