Magazine waits 20 years to apologize

Dayton Daily News ^ | 6/21/06 | Mary McCarty

[qam1]

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[Polybius]

.....the magazine predicted that a 40-year-old woman was "more likely to be killed by a terrorist" than to marry in her lifetime.

It was a typo.

It should have read "this" woman is more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to marry in her lifetime.

[RexBeach]

I suggest that anyone who was traumatized by some wacky magazine piece , such as the "Newsweek" article, probably has bigger problems at work.

[Xenalyte]

I remember that damn article. Feh.

[jankp]

That's one heck of a bit faster than either the NYSimes or WaPo.

[ncountylee]

Not only do I remember this period but as a single male (at that time) I 'benefited' from the aggressiveness that the Newsweek article engendered in a large segment of 30 plus females. Another unintended consequence, I guess.

[ArrogantBustard]

Were you "traumatized" by it?

If so, and with all due respect, that's what you get for reading Newspeak Magazine ... and taking it seriously. That rag is useless. It's not even suitable material for birdcage liner.

[stylin19a]

now if only Teddy Kennedy would get the hint...

[Xenalyte]

I was 15 when it came out, so I wasn't particularly traumatized, but I do recall thinking the odds seemed skewed.

[MaryFromMichigan]

I'm talking about an event that traumatized an entire generation of single women.

Frankly, I've never been so traumatized in my life,
but at least I have a husband.

/airplane ref.

[MeanWestTexan]

I suggest anyone who reads Newsweak has bigger problems.

[D-Chivas]

Newsweak is still around? I probably quit reading that rag 20 years ago.

[ArrogantBustard]

I would expect a reasonably intelligent and well educated 15 year old to at least suspect that the MSM are not necessarily telling the truth.

[L98Fiero]

"Newsweek? Not in this house."

-Hank Hill

[Xenalyte]

Well, at that age I had a certain low cunning, but I was anything but smart. Just ask Bacon! ;)

[xrp]

Shoot, I just turned 33 and have no intention of ever marrying a woman over 30. My dating experiences have pretty much influenced me to believe that almost all women over 30 who are childless and haven't been married are that way for a reason. I'll just target the 24-28 year olds.

[Dumpster Baby]

I'm a kinda old dude, and I remember that stuff. Actually the whole business of being an old spinster lady at 30 goes back a lot further. By the time I turned about 20 or so, all my hanging-out-with buds were gone - married off to some frantic young thing that had managed to cleave through the herd and tackle the prize. None of my buds were prizes, they were simply -there- in the open instead of in prison or something. No more expeditions to the drag strip, no more coke cup races across the parking lot - that's where you drink your coke and carefully fling the ice filled cup at just the right angle to skim across the pavement. We spent hours and hours doing that. See, we weren't prize catches, but you'd never know that from the female onslaught that most seemed to get. I'll never forget this one bucktoothed, bugeyed guy who was crazy and always wore torn, filthy clothes, and went barefoot. Right out of Deliverance. I'll never forget a sweet young thing adoringly hanging onto his filthy dirty big toe for deal life while he sat on the hood of his junker car and spouted craziness, with his eyes bugging out.

Desperation is an ugly spectacle to watch. :^)

[tx_eggman]

found ourselves too busy ferrying our children to soccer practice or gymnastics. In the midst of our harried schedules we might be forgiven for wishing, at times, that the magazine's predictions had come true.

Oh, the horror ...

[Space Wrangler]

Wow. Newsweek was making up stories as early as 1984. I'm underwhelmed.