So This Is How Newsweek Dies… With Thunderous Applause
October 19, 2012
Newsweek magazine has announced it will no longer exist in print form.
Witness the moment of Newsweek’s slow descent into death…
In related news, National Review’s print magazine is alive and well.
Here’s why…
UPDATE: Ed Driscoll links at Instapundit.
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“We Are All Unemployed Socialists Now.”
Damn that George Bush!
We’ve run out of other people’s money.
Damn that Maggie Thatcher!
It’s too bad… When our descendants to to the doctor’s office, their Newsweek magazines will be a little older than the ones we have now…
It’s time for Time.
The difference between Newsweek and National Review is that former was, until recently, an opinion magazine masquerading as a news magazine while the latter always proclaimed itself as an opinion magazine.
In the case of Newsweek, to quote an old saying, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”
I think Newsweek died of anorexia, because the recent newsstand issues I saw made skinny fashion models look like the Goodyear blimp.
With the demise of this mockery-of-journalism a long and deeply held wish has finally come true. A couple of other such wishes are well on their way to fulfillment as well.