The new Newsweek

Cannot go wrong with the Economist.

If newspapers are The Daily Miracle, that thing is The Weekly Supermiracle.

 

Can't get past the layout (although I'm not a subscriber, I just read it when I find it at the gym). It's just completely linear. One story ends, another begins right below. It's a fantastic magazine, but the layout is just bizarre. Maybe it's a British thing.

 

Get past the layout, Big Circus! You will be greatly rewarded!

 

At first glance, I didn't hate it at all.

 

They're making it a goddamn easy decision to do precisely that.

Live with that, WaPo.

 

Well, the content seems good. That's something. It's just so, weird looking. And they are no longer ending the stories with anything recognizable as an ending. So you turn the page and either story goes on, or it doesn't. The type face is OK to read. But, I don't know. Ugly.
I'm tied to until 2012, though. I'll give it a month or so and see if it grows and the content stays good. Too many columns, though, all in a row.

 

So the new "serious" Newsweek is going to use Stephen Colbert as a guest editor?
And I didn't realize Richard Wolff bailed on Newsweek. Politico has a story on Wolffe's book that makes me believe Evan Thomas and Howard Fineman and others at the mag weren't fans of Wolffe.

 

I agree that the content is still quality, and I don't hate the new design.

But that back page blows, and my bigger-picture issue: I didn't think anything was broken, so I don't know what they were trying to fix.

 

I don't disagree with any of that Cadet.

 

Well before the new design, Peace Corps dropped its 7800+ subscriptions.

Guess I shouldn't miss it.