NEWSWEEK: WITH RACING STRIPES
As nearly as I can determine, this is the first week of the new and improved design and content of Newsweek.
IN its explanation the magazine says, in effect, we know you get your news other ways so what we're going to do is "make you think" in different ways about the news you've already gotten.
We'll they've already made me think! I think I'm glad I don't pay for my subscription more than one year at a time! I signed up, 41 years ago, for a magazine that gave me a roundup of happenings around the country and around the world and then maybe a few columns on what those happenings actually meant. Now, somebody has started sending me a magazine called "analysisweek" ...or maybe it's .....weak.
posted by UMRBlog @ 02:44
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9 Comments:
BREAKING NEWS: NewsWeek sucks. It's now official cause Umr has finally figured out what so many have known for so long. Next up: UMR fesses up that Spring is NOT the smartest man in every room he enters.
0952,
Majored in point-missing at Parsons College.
TYFCB
Your point was booooring. I went with my own.
Thank you for sharing your interest span issues.
If the sand box fight is over...
I subscribed to U.S. News & World Report for awhile, then this year they announced the old magazine model is no longer feasible and switched to a weekly on-line newsletter combined with a monthly theme issue (i.e. Money, Health, Energy) They argued that this way they could really dig deep into the issues in the monthly while keep current with the newsletter. Not so much. Is Time the next to go down? Rolling Stone shrunk their magazine down to 8 x 11, but at least they're still around
USN&WR's effort is disappointing.
It will be interesting to see if time morphs over into non-news.
Rolling Stone has abandoned its target audience. I'd like to see their renewal rate--probably not good.
Guess I'll just read Golf World and Quincy Magazine.
TYFCB
Being more of a fiscal conservative, NewSpeak lost me long ago. I gagged on their interpretations, and they appeared to be all spin all the time.
Of course they probably had some decent articles on science or whatever, but the internet is rapidly replacing those paper relics.
For one BIG thing, print size can be adjusted on my screen ... then I can quickly compare various opinions around the "blogosphere", where other smart net acquaintances (like UMR and qce) will point out variations on the theme. It is a nifty interactive way to get the news and compare notes, while breaking the bonds of the MSM.
Although I find it difficult to argue with that, I do note the evil empire is spinning like mad to invoke ways to make us pay for web use.
TYFCB
I pay for web use. $40 a month for access to my provider. If the evil empire wants a bite of that they should talk to my provider. The service is pretty average though and probably not worth the price I pay. There's not a whole lot of choices in Quincy sad to say.
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