Posted on 04/15/2009 5:13:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
I guess the sign that a “news” mag like Newsweak is in its death throes is a deep slant to the left. Newsweak, in recent years, has read like a subsidiary of Mother Jones. Too bad, because that wasn’t always the case.
It’s hilarious. Newsweek loves to talk about “decline.” They blare headlines about the decline of Christianity, Fareed Zakaria pleasures himself to the thought of the decline of American power....while the whole time their entire business model is the most obvious example of decline.
Can you say, PROJECTION?
Now, I only subscribe to The Economist. Yes it is still liberal at times but it generally keeps it out of the strict news articles and it gives me a much better world view than anything else. I especially appreciate the LACK of JUNK NEWS like Hollyweird etc.
If NewsWeak were to disappear, my only problem would be that those dedicated lefties would metastasize into the remainder of the print media thus further increasing their dominance. Otherwise, its absence will reduce my Obama sightings on the magazine stands - whot a shame!
Have you tried World Magazine? It is an excellent news magazine from a Christian worldview.
[Jon Meacham welcomed the alleged decline and fall of “the modern religious right’s notion of a Christian America” because it creates a “calmer” political environment and a more “theologically serious religious life.
PS 11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
PS 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
PS 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
PS 11:4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
PS 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
PS 11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
PS 11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
I have not. I’ll check it out when I get a chance. Most of my news comes from the internet now.
Maybe they will be more profitable if they make their mag even THINNER than it already is.
What's amazing is the numbers of Christians that remain so in the face of relentless ostracizing by the msm.
More and more people are turning away from the msm yet they still have tremendous power. Our duty, to God, our country, and our children is to bear witness to the lies they promulgate and to thwart at every turn their shortsighted and destructive philosophy.
I want Newsweek to fail, I want Time Magazine to fail, but most of all I look forward to the great day the NY Times goes under. And, of course, I want Barack Obama to fail - miserably - in his anti-Americanism. FUBO!
I picked up a Newsweak copy in my doctor’s waiting room, it had very few pages, I was shocked, shocked, I tell you.. If this rag gets any smaller it will be considered a “pamphlet”! What an outrage that the very few idiots who run this trash seem to believe that what they say or do is vital to America, ha, they have become the joke and an embarrassment to American journalism.
I read that rag only in doctors and dentists offices. I won’t ever pay for their leftist trash.
Newsweek. They’re still around??????????
I noticed the same thing. All three services were filled. It seemed half the church were new faces.
Newsweak is dead.
(I fully realize that all sensible, thinking Americans — that’d be conservatives —fully understand this information. I post it only for the brain-dead Obama voters and statists — that’d be liberals — who might have slipped out of their rubber rooms over at DU and are lurking, hacking or generally causing trouble here at FR.)
Recently, I read what probably amounts to the obituary for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. (My wife insists on buying the Sunday edition for the TV guide.) It joins the growing list of print newspapers in deep, deep financial trouble. The LA Times, NY Times, Boston Globe, Cleveland Plain Dealer, etc.
Here’s my horseback analysis of why they’re heading for extinction.
As generally liberal statist propaganda outlets, they have for decades supported a government “education” system (and I used the term very loosely) dominated by the NEA and the idiot bureaucrats running the DOE in Washington. The unions and the NEA have largely hurled the traditional three “Rs” and critical thinking skills under the bus in favor of touchy-feely diversity training, self-esteem building, political correctness, African studies, teaching Hispanic kids in SPANISH instead of teaching them English on day one, social promotions, basket weaving, navel gazing, etc., etc.
I won’t dwell on it here but would, instead, refer you to my personal experience with the government schools here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lR1KQq2-U
What I cannot grasp is precisely why, after effectively dumbing down the members of the American populace who have traversed the conveyor belt of mediocrity called government schools, the overeducated owners and operators of these newspapers are surprised that this population has lost its interest in READING NEWSPAPERS: Many of them CAN’T read!!
Those folks – especially conservatives who resent the increasingly liberal drivel found in the major papers — who can and DO read things are now getting their information from the Internet or, for those too busy to actually read, from largely conservative talk radio (which helps explain why Algore, Pelosi, Reid, et al feel the need to control both these formats).
Their statist dumbing down has produced huge numbers of voters who lacked the critical thinking skills necessary to determine that their present-voting, slick-talking liar of a candidate had virtually NO management or legislative experience. And the economic illiterates they have elevated to high office in Washington for years have produced a growing economic crisis which has even those with any money left spending it on “luxuries” like food, clothing and shelter. Newspapers and advertising therein are far down the list.
And did I mention that the economic collapse Obama “inherited” has its genesis in Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act? It was then expanded by Clinton and stridently defended by Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters and Barney Frank (who was sleeping with Herb Moses while he held a top spot at – appropriately – Fannie). Only government could turn the dream of home ownership for poor folks into a NIGHTMARE for the rest of us.
Now that they have control of the White House and both houses of Congress, the liberals who run most of the newspapers here SHOULD be on a beach somewhere throwing a huge party. Instead, they are dusting off their resumes. The Editor of the AJC informed us that she was actively seeking to get more conservative/traditional values writers in the pages down there. I’d submit that it’s too little, too late!
Perhaps she’ll write and let us know if that “Hope” and “Change We Can Believe In” thing helps with the job search.
If you just have to have one of those 1,000 new jobs dunning folks for Tim Geithner’s IRS, it couldn’t hurt.
Not surprising on a holiday Sunday like Easter. Many are relatives in for the weekend. But we enjoyed the same experience. We sat next to a family we'd never seen before...
I ask myself, self, why in the world, when NEWS is a daily happening, would I want to read old news, number 1, and number two, read an ivy league slant, to old news, and on top of that pay to have my intelligence insulted on a weekly basis. Fortunately the daily blogosphere has writers equal or better than any of the biased folks inhabiting leftest publications such as Newsweek.
If it wasn't for the wife picking up People, Star Magazine, etc every week...I'd have nothing to read during my daily constitutional.....
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