RIP Newsweek in print

...pulling the plug Dec. 31.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-newsweek-to-end-print-edition-20121017,0,4478257.story

The digital-only publication, supported by paid subscriptions and dubbed Newsweek Global, will be aimed at a "highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context," [Tina] Brown said.

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There is a God!!!

 

Now the Flanderseses will read nothing, just like the Simpsons.

 

Heaven needed a magazine about itself.

 

The office has a subscription.

Someone there takes it into the shitter to read and there it stays, in the communal reading pile, until the cleaning people throw it away.

I haven't looked at an issue in years.

 

Very good.

 

I guess heaven needed a few trees to liive

 

I was all set to post this on the Journalism Only board with a subject line of "Newsweek cuts back to zero days a week in print"

 

Another slow suicide.

 

Good riddance...

 

Content, not platform, killed the print edition of Newsweek. It will eventually kill the online version, too.

 

It'll be interesting. Slate seems to do OK with opinion-only, though it's backed by the Washington Post, right? Wonder how much revenue/profit it generates on its own. Like they say, opinions are like assholes ...