I havent’ had much use for “news” magazines since Time bought out the last Conservative magazine and closed it down. They sent me a three year subscription to Times in pay off my four months remaining on the conservative mag. I read two issues and cancelled it since I like my news un-editted. For some reason all the present “news” magazines seem to feel that the only real news is on celebraties. Everything else much be editted by them to prevent me from knowing what is really going on.

Next to follow is The New York Slime, Washington compose, Detroit Sleeze press..then we have CBS [comment has been edited], NBc (nothing but crap), followed by ABC (all bull-crap)…newstweet was the beginning of the the domino chain…and they will all fall down…good ridence….does sears still have the outhouse edition?

What’s mind boggling is that there are investors and such in the prints and instead of trying different things ( such as being nonbias or get on the conservative side ) to get themselves out of red ink – they would rather crash and burn. That’s how strong the communist brainwashing is. I know, I’m from the old USSR. It’s complete insanity.

You’d think that sooner or later the brain dead media would get it through their thick and vacant skull that bias in the news is going to put them out of business. The trouble is, they are in denial. They claim they are not biased, but anyone with half a brain not that is not true. Plus, it’s mostly the liberal rags that are going out of business. Most conservative publications are still thriving.

All the leftist publications that make up the majority of print today, prefer to go down in flames then change to a *real* neutral stance or even a conservative point of view. That has been happening for a while now and it will keep happening. I loved reading newspapers when I was a young man ( 44 now ) until I matured and realized how commie they all were ( that was in my twenties). So, edie74 – if you prefer to be a communist, be one., if you prefer to be brainwashed just like the government wants you to be, that’s fine too. But please, with all due disrespect – keep your dumb comments to yourself until you come out of the haze. It takes some people longer then others and sometimes never, but you must realize that you can’t push your communist agenda on good American people who fought and bled for this country to protect it from people like yourself and the people who publish the the crap in the print. It’s not the internet, it the hogwash that’s in print that people just won’t read anymore. I’m sure that most people who gave up on print would love to pick up a genuinely nonpartisan newspaper every morning.

I don’t like to hear of any publication going under. The worry is this could happen to many more and what happens when there is a black-out…This is a great way to control the people…what you can’t read, you can’t know about.

When does the party start? Newsweak suffers from the same affliction that affects most newspapers and pulp rags. That is, they start with being in bed with politicians. When that happens, truth is the first casualty. Then, journalistic integrity goes. I could probably get better info and more credibility from a paper in Cuba.
Frankly, it won’t interfere with my sleep if and when the New York Times goes the way of Newsweak. I can get better news from Pravda. I can get better news at a coffee shop. I can get better news and better gossip on a grade school playground.
Ho bag politicians. Ho bag newspapers, TV stations and ‘experts.’ Just think of it as combination of real SOCIAL JUSTICE and TURNABOUT.
Can we assume that some union types will be looking for jobs shortly because of Newsweak’s making peace with the internet? I’m amazed that no one brought up the idea of a ‘bailout.’ By-bye, Newsweak. Good riddance!

Recently I happened across an old BusinessWeek magazine, the April 26, 1999 issue, and what an interesting read it was. Of particular interest was an article by famed economist, Laura D’Andrea Tyson. The article was titled “Why America is tuning out the tax-cutters”. If you recall the federal government was thought to be running a budget surplus and, according to Ms. Tyson, the majority of polled voters were in favor of using the surpluses to fund Social Security, Medicare and education or to retire the debt.

Boy what interesting stories those old issues tell when you get a moment to read them.

there are capitalization companies that are truly brutal. i forget the name of that danny devito movie where he humorously slices and dices a company he took over. kolberg, kravis and roberts is a real life example of this. i think bain did whatever it could to resuscitate failing companies, and if you read the barbarians at the gates you will see that they aren’t necessarily alone in this. apparently newsweak’s appeal is fading, their leftist agenda was so extreme that even bella abzug would be repelled. they editorialized right in the stories instead of reserving that for the “publisher’s corner.” the advantage of print vs pixel is you can grab that magazine and read it in any and all slouchy positions, and tear out any articles you want to keep. you can fall asleep without some battery going dead. also i find myself lingering over the ads instead of mousing down past them. this apparently is the problem google and facebook have.

This yellow rag sealed its fate when it posited, “We’re all socialists now.”

The internet has changed everything. Yesterday I went to Yahoo news and saw an article written by Jeff Greenfield, praising Obama and declaring how he won the last debate with Romney. I see a lot of articles like this, regarding polling numbers, popularity, liberal issues, etc. All you have to do is scroll down and glance at the readers’ comments. Most people are not swallowing the garbage that’s being written, like how the economy is getting better and calling out an article’s author for not being unbiased. And that’s also where you get a better indication about how the election is going to go. Bottom line: the MSM cannot control the narrative the way they did in the past. Their influence slips away more every day and it’s because of the internet.

Newsweeks printed subscribership must be totally devastated, both of them! Their Digital subscribership is propably overjoyed ! Their subscribership will now be nearly doubled! All the way to the impressive, for them, number of 5! Never mind that two of them are only able to look at the pictures!

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The Gutenberg press was not Gutenbergs MAIN contribution to communications. Gutenberg invented MOVABLE type. Until this time all printing was done either by scribes or carved printing blocks (todays’s equivalent would be carved linoleum blocks) put on presses and copies made of the resulting imprint. The Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed using movable type and eventually made Bibles available to the masses of people.

The entire news media is destroying itself. I worked on Newspapers for 25+years As a ITU printer. in Milw. Detroit. Peoria, Chicago, St Louis, SanJose, Oakland, SanFrancisco, Seattle, Aberdeen and many other cities and I learned one important thing. Editors change the “news” to thier political points of view. If you read it in the NEWS you can be asssured that sometime in the history of mankind this event MAY have occurred.
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Pete, NEWSWEEK did not fail at all. They are simply doing a Romney, closing a low profit operation, and quite possibly outsourcing much of their information gathering. That was Bain Capital’s specialty, buy a business that was making its own way without a lot of growth, sell off the parts of the business that were just paying their own way, then outsource as much of the remaining operation as possible so they could cut staff even more.

Uh, oh, what are we going to read in the doctors waiting room? Oh, that’s right, we have “oblamacare”. Won’t require doctors offices anymore. These newsweek people are pretty insightful wouldn’t you say?

There’s still too much paper! I’m drowning in it!

I assert the reason for the NEWSWEEK failure is that it did not report the news. It carried water for the Liberal point of view.