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Anonymous (not verified) says:
Newsweek's not bad, it's just no longer different enough from everything else out there to make it worth the effort, expense and time.
When I stared reading it as a kid, it was an event to get a magazine in your home every week. Now the Internet, feature-oriented newspaper coverage, free weeklies, cable, blah blah blah-- you know the story.
Presumably Newsweek knows the story too, it just never stopped to figure out what it can offer that no one else can. The readers haven't abandoned those great brave journalists working for the mag in Pakistan and Iraq-- the magazine abandoned them, by neglecting to package their journalism in a way that attracts a new generation of readers.
I can think of ten ways to save the mag, but I have my doubts whether the publishers are as unhappy with the performance as Meachem, who is terrific thinker and writer.
Newsweek's not bad, it's just no longer different enough from everything else out there to make it worth the effort, expense and time.
When I stared reading it as a kid, it was an event to get a magazine in your home every week. Now the Internet, feature-oriented newspaper coverage, free weeklies, cable, blah blah blah-- you know the story.
Presumably Newsweek knows the story too, it just never stopped to figure out what it can offer that no one else can. The readers haven't abandoned those great brave journalists working for the mag in Pakistan and Iraq-- the magazine abandoned them, by neglecting to package their journalism in a way that attracts a new generation of readers.
I can think of ten ways to save the mag, but I have my doubts whether the publishers are as unhappy with the performance as Meachem, who is terrific thinker and writer.