Dinosaurs are dying. Newsweek Magazine is desperate …
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… for my subscription. Anyone’s subscription!
Several years ago, we had a subscription to Newsweek.
Yes – I admit it. But that was then.
Personally, I find it a good thing to view several sources of information to get a clear picture of who is spinning what. I flip around the news channels. I do gravitate towards a couple of Fox news programs (Cavuto and Special Report – although I avoid that O’Rielly guy like the plague) I watch C/SPAN like some people watch Monday Night Football hehehehe …
It’s good to get a wide range of news sources.
But when Newsweek Magazine took a “hard left turn” a few years ago, I let it run out.
I had actually though of proactively canceling my subscription several times … especially when I got the one where the cover declared “We Are All Socialists Now”.
Also – someone stole the one when Michael Jackson died. I never got it. Big deal …
Then I read where Newsweek began to loose money – so they took a harder lefty slant. The next year they lost even a lot more money and then went up for sale.
I had toyed with the idea of sending them an offer of $10.00 USD to buy the whole outfit from them ;-)
But some investor bought them and I remember seeing the first issue with the new owner had Mark Twain on the cover. Wow ! Talk about being lost in a fog …
Basically, Newsweek became “magazina-non-grata” to me …
So Newsweek just sent me a letter.
They want me back … how sweet of them! (heavy on the sarcasm)
It is a “welcome back discount form”. I kid you not !
Get this – The annual cover price is $243.60 – the “welcome back discount” is 91% …
So the cost for a year is $20.00 !!! Hahahahahaha !!!
If they offered to pay ME to have a subscription i wouldn’t take it.
So in the letter is a sample issue cover which is about Steve Jobs – “How He Changed Our World” … they’re a little late jumping on that bandwagon.
And get this – on the envelope they make this pitch:
“If you haven’t seen us lately, take a new look. We’ve got more significant news… more varied points of view… more relevant stories… more of the big picture… and more on what matters most.”
THAT’s VERBATIM !!! Even the underlined “mores … hahaha …
If you need an example of how Newsweek has become just another tabloid rag – CLICK for a story at HUFF POST on how Newsweek has deteriorated into something that is not about reporting news, but creating news.
This is like an abusive “ex-flame” who shows up a couple years after I ended a bad relationship and promises to not abuse me like before.
Sorry dear – I don’t buy it … you lost my trust a long time ago. Go away.
The relationship was fine at first but then you abused me. I now get plenty of good info from the WWW … i don’t need you. I don’t want you. You are bad for me.
Besides – Newsweek Magazine is so 20th century …
Face it – Newsweek Magazine can never be what it was. No matter how hard it tries. It can never be what it was.
Besides – what Newsweek was does not even fit in with today’s world. It’s so “last century” …
Newsweek can’t recapture something that has already passed by. Face it folks …
Grasping at straws … creating news rather than reporting news … “photoshopped” cover images … provocative headlines which have little to do with the actual article …
Newsweek Magazine is no different now than a grocery store gossip tabloid … they should be ashamed !
I found THIS ARTICLE about how Newsweek is basically in the gutter now – NewsweAk !!!
Dinosaurs are dying. Such a shame.
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We are in another industrial revolution just as we went through 100 years ago. This one is a shift to digital content.
As the truck replaced the horse as a beast of burden, the digital tablet is replacing the paper periodical.
This year, all those makers of those $500 tablets will be introducing models for under $200.
It will not be long until a good, average tablet will be under $100 …
Because Andriod is the operating system (open source) and there is no “microsoft” type dominating the industry like PCs of last century, the prices for tablets will be dropping fast.
That will be the final blow to the paper printed periodical. It’s inevitable. It’s just history repeating itself. The principles are all the same.
Content is king in the 21st century.
Intellectual Property Rights are important to protect – if we are to have quality content.
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