[MNJohnnie]

Interesting. Funny how the dinosaur media keeps avoiding the real issue why ad income is plummeting.

[advance_copy]

What's a Newsweek?

[Tarpon]

When you flush a Quran, you are gonna get wet. Blow-back.

[eureka!]

Less readers means less ads. And less $$ for the ads that are purchased. Yet, in their arrogance, they continue with their leftist ways. That dinosaur just wants to die...

[narby]

It's spelled "NewsWeak"

[Chode]

HA ha...

[Pondman88]

I used to subcribe (actually it was the wife's) didn't renew and don't miss it.

[BurbankKarl]

More fiction writers unemployed. Will probably be less riots in Afghanistan and London Bombings due to false reporting.

[BillF]

[kcvl]

A lack of spending in the technology and automotive sectors has hurt the whole newsweekly category

BS! People don't want to read the biased crap and lies any longer. It has nothing to do with anything else, period. They can't even be honest about that.

[Rocko]

Rush is smiling now; it'll be fun to hear him comment next week.

[pikachu]

Interesting. Funny how the dinosaur media keeps avoiding the real issue why ad income is plummeting.

The "It's Bush's Fault", "America is Evil", and "We need to pay more taxes" melody has gone sour. But they'll put it down to our stupidty for not electing Gore and They-re-za's second hubby. Waht will be real fun is to see how they react to the anti-Hillary mess that is due to arrive really soon.

[FormerACLUmember]

Newsweek's leadership is utterly clueless. It is a hopeless case.

The day therefore is fast approaching when this evil rag will skip 52 weeks a year of publishing.

[dhs12345]

A contributing factor may be the Internet. Why pay for something that you can get for free.

Another reason, due the the Internet again, is that people are now more informed than before. Many more opinions out there for everyone to see. So, if a media source like Newsweek try to make up a story, then there are thousands and then millions who know that they have lied. And it happens very quickly.

Cable has also hurt Newsweek and others. Again, why pay for something you can get for free. Not to mention that people have wanted a more Conservative perspective in the media.

[theFIRMbss]

>Newsweek Drops Issue

Damn. Birds of the world
are meeting in conclave and
will respond shortly . . .

[longtermmemmory]

This sounds like the begining of the end for newsweek, they will go from weekly to bi-weekly to monthly to gone.

[nightdriver]

Does this mean Eleanor Clift will have to take some unpaid leave? (chuckle! snork!)

[randog]

A lack of spending in the technology and automotive sectors has hurt the whole newsweekly category...

Yeah, right. You can't flip a channel without being pounded with a new car ad, yet Newsweak can't seem to suck a few of those dollars their way. As my Indian co-worker would say--"Boolsh!t".

[Steely Tom]

My parents got me a subscription to Newsweek when I was in high school (early '70's). It was a fairly literate magazine back then.

I read it through the whole Watergate story. I believe Newsweak did 53 (or was it 57?) cover stories on Watergate. It was the biggest thing in the history of the world as far as they were concerned (because they were owned by WaPo? don't know if they were then).

After that, they lead the leftward charge of the media to the left. I stopped reading it in the mid-'70's. In 1979 I discovered National Review.

A friend of mine gets it (well, actually, his wife gets it). I read it when I visit them.

I'm always amazed by how thin it's gotten. It's no more than half its thickness, back in the '70's. Some of that may be due to thinner paper, but I'm dead certain it has fewer pages. A lot fewer pages.

Also, the entertainment/celebrity coverage is far more extensive. In some issues, tabloid-type coverage takes up half the magazine. They seem to be trying to morph into something that will attract the "People" readership.

Their bias level is amazing. They interject their political point of view into virtually every paragraph of every story. That point of view is absolutely, unwaveringly left-wing, anti-Bush, anti-GOP, and smugly, subtly, anti-American.

The whole thing is infused with a sort of snarky pseudo-intellectual tone of condescension that assumes that you, the reader, agrees with them on everything: Bush is an idiot, Cheney is really running everything and is a crook, Bill Clinton's presidency was the Golden Age, Hillary will save us, teenagers all do it and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them, those darn Republicans are the cause of terrorism, global warming, homelessness, and poverty in the devellloping wooorld, on and on, forever and ever, amen.

Time is exactly the same. USN&WR is probably the same also, but is so boring and lame that I haven't even seen it in a doctor's office or barber shop for about the last 10 years.

(steely)

[Neoliberalnot]

Good riddance to this rag. I dropped this piece of trash a decade ago when they did the disparaging issue on Thomas Jefferson. Granted, Tom was not perfect, nobody is, but he did much for the founding of the country and deserves an appropriate level of respect. Certainly more than the slimball writer deserves. Newsweek is just part of the old media monopoly that has been busted by the New Media.

[fight_truth_decay]

A lack of spending in the technology and automotive sectors has hurt the whole newsweekly category with ad pages falling 10.5 percent, to 6,332 through July 19.?????

_____________________________________________________________________

Magazines PIB Ad Revenue Rises 8.2%, Pages Up 2.3% in June
Eight of 12 Major Ad Categories Post PIB Revenue and Page Gains
June 2005
New York, NY (July 11, 2005)—

Total magazine rate-card-reported advertising revenue for the month of June increased 8.2% compared to June of last year, closing at $1,917,719,349, according to Publishers Information Bureau (PIB).

Ad pages totaled 20,312.87, up 2.3% from June 2004. Year-to-date, PIB revenue closed at $10,777,623,532, an increase of 9.5% from the same period last year, with ad pages totaling 114,345.52, a 1.8% gain.


June 2005 vs. 2004
Eight of the 12 major advertising categories increased their PIB revenue and pages over last year.

In June, top gainers included the Automotive; Direct Response; Public Transportation, Hotels & Resorts; and Financial, Insurance & Real Estate categories. Financial, Insurance & Real Estate posted its sixteenth consecutive month of PIB revenue and page gains in June. (Twelve categories are the most significant contributors to PIB revenue, comprising more than 85% of total advertising spending.)

AUTOMOTIVE $237,388,624 in 2005..... $200,105,313in 2004 (up over 18%)

TOILETRIES & COSMETICS $198,093,125 in 2005....... $175,685,379 in 2004

FOOD & FOOD PRODUCTS $158,906,718.....from $ 134,625,727

APPAREL & ACCESSORIES $107,768,924......from $98,028,085

DIRECT RESPONSE COMPANIES $126,765,360....from $ 95,033,136

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, HOTELS & RESORTS $ 71,328,669..from $59,777,297

Yes Technology is down just 8% ($97,467,250 from $106,482,046) ..often better spent in R&D or in business related news or tech insider magazines.

Details are as follows: (Click here for Magazine Totals)
http://www.magazine.org/Advertising_and_PIB/PIB_Revenue_and_Pages/Revenue___Pages_by_Ad_Category__monthly___YTD_/12702.cfm

Also : Online Advertising Spending Projected to Increase by 20.2% in 2005, reaching $11.3 billion by Year's End. That means Internet advertising will account for 4.0% of all US advertising spending during the coming year, up from approximately 3.5% in 2004.

http://sev.prnewswire.com/publishing-information-services/20050427/DATU06726042005-1.html


They can't generate money from advertising in the other sectors that are up from 2004...you want us to believe the tech sector and the automotive industry (which is up in advertising sales not down as the story implies) are the only two clients they have???????

What a bunch of ...