Comments on: Newsweek Drops Issue

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:03:54 +0000

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.

By: Steel Turman

Steel Turman — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:34:19 +0000

LaShawn,

Here is someone you should meet.

She posts the advertisers of Newsweak.

http://www.madisonavenuemaverick.com/

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:33:46 +0000

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.

By: dougpetch.com

dougpetch.com — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:14:26 +0000

Magazine Subscription Math

Assumption: An individual purchases a subscription to Newsweek. Assumption: Said subscription is based on receiving X issues per year (where X is a defined number). Fact: Newsweek decides to publish one less issue than planned. Query: Should the indivi…

By: mj

mj — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:14:59 +0000

What I meant to say was “that I agreed with” after “Newsweek.”

By: mj

mj — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:59:13 +0000

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.

By: Rod Stanton

Rod Stanton — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:45:22 +0000

Justice!

By: Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:56:11 +0000

May it die a quick and painful death, rather than wither on the vine and make our reading lives miserable.

By: firebird

firebird — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:43:31 +0000

It looks like NEWSREEKS bad smell has become too much for it too bad for such a rag and birdcage liner

By: Civil Commotion

Civil Commotion — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:37:38 +0000

LaShawn Barber sure is …

… in a grumpy mood today.Newsweek Drops Issue

It could be poor print ad sales in general or Newsweekâ€™s notorious anti-America bias thatâ€™s turning advertisers off.

Whatever the reason, I hope their â€œad pagesâ€ continue to drop.Regarding w…

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:28:10 +0000

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.

By: Heliotrope

Heliotrope — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:21:20 +0000

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.