Really, the newsweeklies’ only role is that of the doctor’s office. They were supposed to be middle-of-the-road, largely inoffensive magazines that added class to an endtable.
Like all things, the Lefties took revered institutions, infiltrated them and took advantage of the years of carefully-cultivated good will. That’s why Newsweek could be a hyper-partisan mag and still sell.
But nobody reads newsweeklies anymore, unless they have nothing else to read.
They hired Evan Thomas’ daughter because that’s all they could afford.
Anyone notice how THIN Newsweek is? It used to be fairly fat with ads.