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Very melancholy morning realizing that the defining English language publication of my childhood and early 20s is ceasing dead-tree production. Makes me wish I
by SODaniel 14y ago
Very melancholy morning realizing that the defining English language publication of my childhood and early 20s is ceasing dead-tree production.
Makes me wish I had saved all the in-flight Newsweek's through the years.
- davidw 14y agoMy family used to get Newsweek when I was growing up, but even as a teenager I wasn't very impressed with the quality of the writing. It's been a while since I've had the chance to read them 'head to head', but The Economist pretty much blows it out of the water.
- klsvu 14y agoI agree, it's sad though they did some groundbreaking coverage in the past. I thought that tablet based reading would help the media industry a lot more than it has to date.
- pnathan 14y agoSame, it's been surface-level content for a loooong time. I find Atlantic, Financial Times, CS Monitor far superior.
- tsotha 14y agoMy family got Newsweek when I was growing up as well. I never did after I moved out, though, because I realized if I just read the content and skipped the ads I could read it cover to cover in about ten minutes. And yeah, The Economist takes a lot longer to get through. But the advent of the web has been particularly hard on news magazines. I wonder how much longer even The Economist will be around.