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I think we're witnessing some kind of death cycle for a magazine. When I was much younger (say 40 years ago), I loved Newsweek. Maybe I was just naive, but I
by RickJWagner 7y ago
I think we're witnessing some kind of death cycle for a magazine.
When I was much younger (say 40 years ago), I loved Newsweek. Maybe I was just naive, but I seem to remember interesting stories and good, even-handed reporting.
Then I started disliking Newsweek a few decades later. I tend to be conservative, and to my eyes the magazine seemed to lean way too far left, consistently. They frequently seemed to run articles I didn't care for, so my opinion of them slipped considerably.
Now this article tells us the magazine has been printing articles from Newt Gingrich, Ben Shapiro, etc. These are definitely right-side of the political spectrum. Was I wrong about the left-leaning?
It seems like some kind of fatal flailing. I think Newsweek has been ill for decades.
- robk 7y agoNo you were right before
- jrumbut 7y agoI recall the old reputation was that Time and Newsweek were considered centrist publications, with Time a hair to the right and Newsweek about two hairs to the left. This was a reputation, based on 0 hard evidence, but if I recall a commonly held one among news magazine readers of the late 90s. I have been consciously subscribing to my local newspapers (I live in the Northeast, so there are excellent ones like the Boston Globe and Providence Journal) and just reading them and what gets recorded there and nowhere else it is horrifying to think of a world without them. If the mayor of your city is a supervillain terrorizing the town by night, who's going to tell you? The police chief he hired? The social media site who got a huge incentive package to set up shop there? We're very lucky to have the tradition of journalism, with all its flaws past and present. I think we all need to take responsibility for preserving it.