"If We Don't Have Something Original To Say, We Won't" --Bye, Bye, Newsweek?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/business/media/09newsweek.html?_r=1&ref=media

 

Re: Bye, Bye, Newsweek

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Re: Bye, Bye, Newsweek

So, the magazine will be physically smaller, have less big event coverage, less space for news and the price will double for subscribers.
And Newsweek's leadership thinks that is the way to go.
So here's the question: As an industry, are we all retarded?

 

We, the workers? No. We, the management that gets paid bonuses to think of this shit? Yes.

 

As journalists, we're supposed to find a unique angle for a story.

Instead, little to nothing on news of world-wide interest in this magazine because the reporters found nothing "original." (here's a thought: find someone who can.)

As for the future product, lessen the quality and number of stories. But expect people to pay more?

No reputable industy follows such a business model. Why cover anything concerning Obama? Nothing original there.

Someone, please just pull the trigger. Too few people with any influence have any original idea to turn this industry around.

With this type of leadership, there is little hope for the future.

 

The "conventional wisdom", indeed.

 

No idea what they're thinking here. I get both the Atlantic and Newsweek, and if Newsweek does this, I'm guessing I'd drop it. I mean, do they want to lessen their circulation?

 

I dropped USNWR last year because it was getting flimsy. 25 year subscriber and done.

 

Jon Meacham is the biggest ass in American magazines.
There simply is nobody close to him.

 

I can't remember ever "loving" Newsweek, and the proposed changes make me like it even less.

Fail.

 

Longtime subscriber. I doubt I continue either.