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Dies? Isn’t this a bit premature? It is still on the shelves.
It’ll come from TARP. Just wait and see ...
Not one tear shed from me...was the first magazine subscription I got when I got out of college and the first one I canceled not long after.
This is where Time, Incorporated has an edge--they are already well on their way to doing this and we will see by fall 2010 most of their magazines in the electronic magazine format designed for devices like Apple's new tablet computer, devices like the new netbook that runs Chrome OS, or running on desktops/laptops using a free reader program.
No more covers of Obama? What will he do?
Remember, the purpose of any newspaper or magazine is to make money for the people who own the newspaper or magazine. Forget all the altruistic “truth, justice and the American way” BS. Media is about money. No readers, no reward.
It's the BUSINESS MODEL that is dead. No one is going to spend $ to cut down trees using gas powered chainsaws, spoil the landscape, drive the mods to the pulp mill, pollute everything in sight making paper (and create a horrible stench,) then drive the blank paper to a plant where they will put carcinogous ink on it, then drive it to your house, just so you can get a 6 hour to 6 day old far-left liberals' views of the world.
It's over.
It's not just that the fat Lady is getting ready to sing. She has sung, retired, and moved to St. Petersburg, where she plays canasta and shuffleboard, and lives with the long ceased-publication St. Petersburg Evening Independent.
These organs of liberal agitprop cannot die fast or soon enough to please me. What sort of work are the unemployed journalists of these noisome rags fitted to do post-bankruptcy and collapse? Shoveling cattle manure comes to mind, but there's only a sprinkling of those jobs to go around.
And maybe we're cheering too soon. The Obamassiah has floated the possibility of tax breaks and subsidies to keep his tattered and decaying print media cheering section in bid'ness.
Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, et al, will be on government life support soon, i.e. TARP or some other phony name to keep their fan club afloat. Freedom of the Press will be subjected to Freedom of the Purse. Print what I want to read or the money will stop. Works for the government better than for the people. The fourth estate is no longer the watchdog of government, but the lapdog. The lib commies will conjure up some penumbra to cover the cost of bailing out the presses like “Freedom of the Press Act of 2010”, then dole out the dollars to their now conjoined fellows at the helms of these formerly private publications. Freedom of the Pre$$, my A$$!...............
Maybe that's the real reason they felt they had to put Sarah Palin and her beautiful legs on the cover. Pure sex appeal play to boost sales and stay alive. Demeaning her in a sexist way was just icing on the cake.
And that great Conservative pundit Joe Scarborough has the Newsweak editor on his radio show every week. It’s the reason I gave up on Joe (one of many, really).
The Obama administration will find a way to keep them afloat. Newsweek, after all, is a valuable part of their propaganda machine.
they should just revive Look (since the whole mag is nothing but pictures of Obama anyway)
WSJ, IBD, National Review, and American Spectator
In that case the name "Newsweek" is no longer appropriate.
How about something like "Spewsweek"?
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Washington just CAN’T let one of their propaganda organs die! They will breathe life back into it — from the massive slush funds or a new “media bailout package,” or something.... They MUST have herr Goebbels tools...