I find anyone in my waiting room with either such magazine, no matter who brought it in..... once the leather straps are in place, NO NOVACAINE and LOTS OF CENTRALIZED, EXCRUTIATING, SEERINGLY EXQUISITE PAIN.
Posted on 01/21/2009 5:44:53 AM PST by Menehune56
NEW YORK -- When Rick Stengel joined Time in 1981, every story in progress filled a thick binder -- the reporter's version, the editor's rewritten version, the top editors' version, the fact-checked version -- that would be unimaginable in today's cut-to-the-bone corporate culture. (snip)
When Jon Meacham joined Newsweek in 1995, "there was a phrase in the culture -- 'We need to get something in on X' -- that we never use anymore," he says. The days of a "newsmagazine of record," Meacham says, are long gone. (snip)
Morale in both shops has been devastated as staffers complain about a blurred identity, lack of direction, management snafus and outsourcing to big-name writers that has left them wondering if reporters still have much of a role.
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Yeah, basically he's describing Freepers, and I doubt any of us read Time or Newsweek except at the dentist's office.
When I picked up my copy of the Houston Chronicle yesterday, the one with the picture of “the one” on the front, I seems even smaller that it was last week. Saving paper, saving ink, I hope the liberal rag goes broke.
I read Newsweek for almost 30 years until I realized something was very wrong with this supposed "news" magazine at the end of the Lewinsky scandal. They switched from decent investigative reporting to overtly shilling for Clinton. I now get more interesting and even diversity of opinion in National Review.
When you consistently go out of your way to stick a finger in the eye of the 60 million people that didn’t vote for Obama, well, I guess that’s gonna leave a mark, huh?
I quit my subscription to Newsweek after the “Koran in the toilet” fiction (which resulted in numerous deaths around the world).
Boo-freakin'-hoo. Welcome to the real world, outside your precious beltway.
“That Shrinking Feeling: Time, Newsweek Narrow Their Focus”
Yep, they’ve done that alright. Standard fare: Obama pic on front cover, Obama-related feature headlining the interior, with small remainder of copy dedicated to bashing conservatives. Formula all the way.
I find anyone in my waiting room with either such magazine, no matter who brought it in..... once the leather straps are in place, NO NOVACAINE and LOTS OF CENTRALIZED, EXCRUTIATING, SEERINGLY EXQUISITE PAIN.
I ended my subscription during Bush I's admin. They called me for two years trying to get me to resub.
Unreal.
I agree it is unreal, but it's also correct. There was a period when these magazines were interesting and informative. Only Margaret Carlson and Eleanor Clift were the token liberal columnists who regularly bashed the Republicans.
Now, the News magazines seem to harp only on politics, and generally are supportive of the extreme left doctrines.
LOL! So true!
Got that right . LOL. Don’t read em don’t weep ;)
I’m wishing they go flat broke. They make me sick. They’ve groveled long enough for Obama. They deserve to fail. I hope they all go begging at street corners. Ditto, the NY Times. I won’t even pick it up even if I find a free copy lying about. The only national paper I can stand is the Wall Street Journal. And will this warm fuzzy love fest for Obama ever end? The fourth estate has never been this biased, never!
That was when they responded to the outcry against the outrageously unfair article by stating for the record that gun control was too important an issue to report fairly, and that TIME would continue to push for strict gun control.Is there an actual quote for this?
I'm having trouble finding any sort of "a quote," but I remember the letter being published, I believe by the NRA, or some other group. It was a form letter sent out to angry subscribers, and many people canceled their subscriptions over this.
Mark
I agree with you to a point, yes I hate the low quality news reporting. I picked up a magazine during my last trip to my doctor, it was open to a business story. I read the article, then looked to see who had published it. I was surpised to see it was Business Week, I used to subscribe it, but quit shortly after I sold my business. It was a pale imitation of the magazine I used to read regularly, it was/is a copy of People style, nothing to long, no depth, just about people in the story, with no back story, no stats to back up their claims. Business Week used to be aimed at upper management and was expensive compared to other magazines. I asked my doctor, why he subscribed to it and he replied,that he didn’t, every magazine in his waiting room was sent to him free.
My point is they chose the business model, hoping to expand their readership. These magazine were once aimed at educated people, now they are aimed at People readers. I started Newsweek in high school, because it was required reading for my civics’ class and continued, until I could read it in five minutes. There was nothing in it to inform me on any subject, just a few paragraphs explaining one side of a story.
I'm having trouble finding any sort of "a quote," but I remember the letter being published, I believe by the NRA, or some other group. It was a form letter sent out to angry subscribers, and many people canceled their subscriptions over this.If people wanted biased news, they could read newsletters from the RNC, DNC, Handgun Control, Inc., the Daily Worker, or the National Vanguard.
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