Washington Post Co. to Sell Newsweek (Dumpin' It: Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Newsweek (seriously) ^

[quesney]

The Washington Post Co. announced today that it has retained Allen & Company to explore the possible sale of NEWSWEEK magazine.

[dirtboy]

NEWSWEEK is an internationally known and respected publication

Known, yes. Respect, hardly.

[mlocher]

Despite heroic efforts on the part of NEWSWEEK's management and staff, we expect it to still lose money in 2010.

Martyrdom is not heroism.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

NEWSWEEK is an international laughingstock

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I predict Newsweek will become a quarterly and be banished to the grocery store check out isle, more or less like the periodic Life Magazine appearances.

[Disambiguator]

I’ll buy that!

For a dollar.

[GeronL]

Newsweak, I mean Newspeak magazine is for sale??

Think Bloomberg will buy that too??

[GeronL]

bump

[Cicero]

I hear they’re planning to change the name from Newsweek to Swillmonth.

[Lancey Howard]

Who would buy it? Seriously.
Maybe the same people who would invest in a slide-rule manufacturing company?

[999replies]

I wish I could buy it so I could personally fire every writer/editor. That would be fun.

[rman04554]

HAR HAR HAR Awesome! The end is near

[Carley]

Maybe Olbermadmann can buy the rag, er, mag. They’re perfect together.

[madprof98]

Maybe somebody will buy it for the parts.

[ConservativeMind]

Who will buy something that will be extinct in a year and lose money every day of its existence?

[catnipman]

... and in the current climate, it might be a better fit elsewhere."

Hmmmmm, let's see ... better fit elsewhere. I'm thinking. Got it! Bzzzz. "What is Bankruptcy Court?" Ding, ding, ding! That's correct for $200.00!

[albie]

I’ll take it off their hands for $1,000. Payable to me.

[Grampa Dave]

Hopefully, nobody will want to spend good money for this POS!

[albie]

“Maybe somebody will buy it for the parts”.

...parts would include 3,000 wacko liberals and a huge Starbucks coffee bill.

[Grampa Dave]

“Despite heroic efforts on the part of NEWSWEEK’s management and staff, we expect it to still lose money in 2010.”

The drugged out mediots of NewsWeak have confused arrogance, bias and stupidity for heroic.

[Buckeye McFrog]

they never did get around to changing the name to “Barack Illustrated Weekly”, eh?

[cydcharisse]

I’ve got a place it would fit, but I can’t say, ‘cause it would get me banned.

[MinuteGal]

Remember when Newsweak's "chief investigative reporter" Michael Isadumkopf reported that a Koran had been flushed down a toilet by an American at Guatanamo Bay? This story triggered wide-spread rioting and anti-American protests throughout the world.

It was later proved to be only an allegation and Newsweak was forced to print a retraction.

Also, remember the sexist photo of Sarah Palin published on a Newsweak cover? The bias was so lame and obvious that even liberals were embarrassed.

Before leftists took over this rag, it ranked only behind Time magazine as an important news journal. However, leftists are like locusts when they take something over.....they leave only ravaged ruination and shreds of destruction in all they touch before they are forced to leave or sell out what they have despoiled.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Now it appears that the likes of Michael Isikoff and Eleanor Clift may have to look for new print outlets on which to impose their liberal literary fungus.

Leni

[bert]

poor old Eleanor. She’s too old to do tricks and transaction from presstitute to prostitute.

She’s too old for sidewalk sex like that with Bubba at the ‘68 convention.

Tough, I mean tough nookies.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

How about News Corp buy it. Johnathon Alter has to report into Rupert Murdoch and Rupert says, You’re fired!!! Would love it...

[hdstmf]

It will take a decade, maybe more, to get rid of the outdated issues littering the waiting rooms of the country.

The next to fall will be People, US and assorted papparrazi pubs about retarded celebrities.

[Zakeet]

I'm sure going to miss garbage like this!

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Can’t imagine3 any buyers unless their intent is to cease paper publication and go strictly on line like US News & World Report. Time wont be far behind.

[Tribune7]

Washington Post Co. to Sell Newsweek

That might be wishful thinking.

[norwaypinesavage]

So far, the highest bid has come from Charmin, looking for a new distribution system.

[abb]

Ping. Sorry to be late on the ping list, but I was busy this morning reporting on a red hot school board meeting last night.

[junta]

Chief Moose had might as well be the chief editor for the LSM losers, with their constant drumbeat of “whitey did it.”

The Der Sturmer had more subtly than the clown show that calls itself “mainstream.”

[DaxtonBrown]

I’ll throw ten bucks into the bidding right now.

[SierraWasp]

Somebody put an article on MarketWatch.com suggesting “it” be merged with Slate.com. I guess then you could call it the slippery slate!!!

[hoosier hick]

I hear the National Enquirer is interested....

hh

[ct_libertarian]

I guess THEY'RE ALL SOCIALISTS, NOW!

[SanFranDan]

Weren’t these the idiots that said they actually wanted, and were happy about less market share a few months ago? Also, didn’t they say they were intentionally pandering to a more sophisticated market?

[Plutarch]

It'd be fun to put an ad on Craigslist for journalism job, and then receive resumes from Evan Thomas, Eleanor Clift, Jonathon Alter etc.

Arrange for an interview. Toy with them. Then let them know they've been punked by a Freeper, while laughing maniacally.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Maybe a merger with the Atlantic ?

[Texas Fossil]

NEWSWEEK = “We are all Socialists now!”

That publication deserves to die.

[Texas Fossil]

You beat me to it.

[Grampa Dave]

Merging Market Watch with Slate and other left wing sites is a great idea.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What have you got against slide rules...?

[Lancey Howard]

Nothing!
I like slide rules.

[SierraWasp]

No way! That Australian that now owns the WSJ owns MarketWatch.com. Besides, as you already know... they were talkin about Newsweak and Slate, silly man.

[Enchante]

Keith Olberdork will buy it for $1 and merge it with PMSNBC to create the important (sic) lefty “news” magazine to be called “PMS-Week”

[Frantzie]

The magazine is about 25 pages including 5 to 6 ad pages.

This should be a template to also kill TV. Cancel cable and sat TV.

[Frantzie]

It has no value. Business Week - same thing. Sold for like a dollar or something.

[AmishDude]

Just one year ago they made a big deal about their Spinal Tap-style downsizing of the magazine and refocusing it to a “select market” of hyperpartisan liberals.

But what are they selling other than the copyright to the name of the magazine?

[AmishDude]

Newsweek devalued the only asset they had — the name. They’ll get more than $1, but not much more. They should have sold it before the retooling.