Newsweek Drops Issue

by La Shawn on July 28, 2005

in General

It could be poor print ad sales in general or Newsweek’s notorious anti-America bias that’s turning advertisers off.

Whatever the reason, I hope their “ad pages” continue to drop.

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Civil Commotion: 07.28.05 at 2:37 pm
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Heliotrope 07.28.05 at 2:21 pm: Alrightie, then….. I don’t read Newsweak, because it is one long sermon from the “church of elite scribble jockies.”

It uses its sales base to print the magazine and it uses the print base to charge its advertisers.

If its advertising base comes up short, it has to raise its sales price to cover its publication expenses. (Or cut expenses by dropping an issue and giving the little people an unpaid vacation.)

One sure way to get its sales base back up and get back into the publishing game is to clean out its “church of elite scribble jockies” and relearn the trick of honest journalism that is not agenda driven. This, of course, also means they must stop creating news and then covering their creation.

A “pox” on Newsweak. They are incapable of catching a clue.
RedBeard 07.28.05 at 2:28 pm: There was a time, decades ago, when U.S. News and World Report was a serious bit of honest journalism, a counterpoint to the fluff and nonsense of Time and Life and Look. But honest mainstream journalism has been a rotting corpse for a very long time now.

Not likely to improve any time soon, either. A survey of journalism school grads found that most of them wanted to get into the field “to make a difference.” What kind of nonsense is that? Phooey. How about wanting to find out the facts and then just reporting them? Nah. Not nearly as much fun as trying to be latter-day versions of Woodward and Bernstein. Good grief.
firebird 07.28.05 at 2:43 pm: It looks like NEWSREEKS bad smell has become too much for it too bad for such a rag and birdcage liner
Chris Roberts 07.28.05 at 4:56 pm: May it die a quick and painful death, rather than wither on the vine and make our reading lives miserable.
Rod Stanton 07.28.05 at 7:45 pm: Justice!
mj 07.28.05 at 9:59 pm: The only thing I read in Newsweek in recent years was when they disparaged the election of the Brazilian leader, who’s an looney Marxist and will probably help in unravelling any shred of capitalism they have there.
mj 07.29.05 at 12:14 am: What I meant to say was “that I agreed with” after “Newsweek.”
Kevin 07.29.05 at 3:33 pm: Not one to pile on, I canceled my Newsweek subscription effective this month. Even a desire to read what the opposition MSM is saying can’t justify supporting that Left-wing rag with a subsciption. Ad revenues will contiune to fall, along with circulation.
Steel Turman 07.29.05 at 10:34 pm: LaShawn,

Here is someone you should meet.

She posts the advertisers of Newsweak.

http://www.madisonavenuemaverick.com/
Charles 07.30.05 at 8:03 am: I recently cancelled by not renewing my subscription to Newsweek. My wife and I have a son serving in Iraq, and it is my opinion that the way they report the news is helping to encourage the enemy. I hold them in the utmost contempt for the harm they do to America.