U.S. News & World Report Going Monthly (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

FishbowlDC ^ | November 4, 2008 | Staff

[abb]

http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13679
US News “2009 Growth Strategy” memo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/04/AR2008110402206.html?sub=AR
U.S. News Cuts Back to Monthly Publication

[Ciexyz]

Weekly mags are old news compared to the current info you can obtain immediately from Internet blogs. As for monthlies? Hah!

[hinckley buzzard]

USN&WR forty to fifty years ago was the smallest of the three stooge newsmagazines but far and away the most literate and useful. While TIME was publishing pictures of topless cellists in the early 60's USNWR was publishing accurate and incisive analyses of world events.

Too bad they fell for the siren song of leftist squalor over obective substance.

[abb]

USN&WR forty to fifty years ago was the smallest of the three stooge newsmagazines but far and away the most literate and useful.

When I became a news junkie nearly fifty years ago, I talked my Dad into subscribing to it in my name. I read every issue from cover to cover.

[FormerACLUmember]

Buh bye!

Two down. (The Christian Science Monitor shut down earliewr this week)

I can’t WAIT for the LA Times, the NY Times and the Washington Post to all shut down.

Meanwhile the even handed Wall Street Journal and Fox are prospering.

[SevenofNine]

I always hate US News and World report

[SevenofNine]

I always hate US News and World report

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If, (and I repeat if), Obama is elected, can we please lose the "Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™" threads?

If our media can elect a President, they are far from being in danger of extinction.

If he's elected, it will be even more important that the Drive-Bys be put out of business.

. . . in fact, I was just thinking about writing about the necessity for defeating the Associated Press as sine qua non for reestablishing conservative strength in America. Whoever wins this election.

[abb]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/business/media/05mag.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
U.S. News Will Become a Monthly Magazine

[Notary Sojac]

If he's elected, it will be even more important that the Drive-Bys be put out of business. I've been posting these threads since before you were a FReeper.

I think you missed my point.

My point is that it's crazy to think that there can be a "death watch" on an institution that has this year selected a Democratic candidate, selected a Republican candidate, and selected a president.

[abb]

My point is that it's crazy to think that there can be a "death watch" on an institution that has this year selected a Democratic candidate, selected a Republican candidate, and selected a president.

If you will go back through all my threads on this issue - and there are hundreds - nowhere will you find that I said they were dead. And nowhere have I minimized their past or present power. In fact I often comment on how they are, along with the Democrat Party and Academia, part of the Liberal Axis.

But it is not debatable that newspaper and television networks as we have known them all our lives are financially stressed and are losing influence to the internet.

My intent with these threads is to chronicle that decline, hence the Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™ title.

[Notary Sojac]

are losing influence to the internet

If last night is any guide, I doubt that.

[abb]

If last night is any guide, I doubt that.

We shall see, I suppose. But sincerely, I invite you to follow these threads and comment if you so choose, as I will continue to post them as events dictate.