I 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

I 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.