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By: The Friendly Grizzly

The Friendly Grizzly — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:04:34 +0000

When I visit my mother, I thumb through the Newsweaks she has on the coffee table. Gads, has that magazine gone downhill! I really think she subscribes because a 50+ year habit is hard to break. She is also a cast-iron Democrat, so that may have something to do with it.

By: cj

cj — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:58:10 +0000

For this mid-forty-something reader, the primary reason (regardless of content) that I bypass Time and Newsweek is that they no longer “feel” like magazines.

I mean, gimme a break. If you’re going to charge me close to $5 off the newstand, I want some *heft* in my hand. Oprah, Ladies Home Journal, National Geographic, etc., etc., etc. deliver the magazine print/publication might.

When did Newsweek and Time devolve into a non-glossy, no-binding, pulp-paper fold-over with staples? Why in gawd’s name do they think I’d pay $5 for something that resembles my newspaper’s weekly TV-listing broadsheet or the local school district’s class directory?

By: photoncourier.blogspot.com

photoncourier.blogspot.com — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:55:20 +0000

Newsweek is just abou as bad, though, and its circulation is supposedly level with last year. Any theories as to why?

By: Ripper

Ripper — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:34:10 +0000

Time Magazine – one of the most anti-Israel (“Bay-gin, rhymes with Fagin”) and pro PLO magazines out there. I have not read it in years.

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:36:02 +0000

Ray,

Ah, their circulation is a reverse hockey stick!

By: Ray Zacek

Ray Zacek — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:30:54 +0000

No, Barry, anthropogenic global warming is causing newspaper and magazine circulation to shrivel up.

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:02:08 +0000

Circulation is down. I blame Bush.

By: Ray Zacek

Ray Zacek — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:46:09 +0000

I grew up admiring Time magazine. For me it was a passport into an adult world, a world of sophistication, of ideas, of things that mattered. Now it is a slick, superficial and worthless thing. Read Time from cover to cover, I am convinced, and you will know less when you finish than when you started.

By: Lem

Lem — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:09:54 +0000

PBS had a doc the other night about big brother google.

The empire strikes back.

By: ricpic

ricpic — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:48:17 +0000

The tire store cum repair shop I patronize offers for my reading pleasure, I kid you not, The New Yorker! but not a single T&A mag. How’s that for a disconnect?