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FightingIrish

(2,716 posts)
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 12:50 PM Aug 2012

I'm really proud of my wife.

My wife and I have been Newsweek subscribers since we married almost forty years ago. Lately the rag has been shrinking in content and quality. The cover story hit piece on Obama was the final straw. Having that on the coffee table was like having the TV stuck on Fox News. I suggested to my wife that we should cancel our subscription. She said that she had just renewed it. A few days later she told me she had called and canceled the subscription. She said the lady on the phone was very professional and did not seem at all surprised when told why we were canceling. I hope other subscribers will help put Newsweek out of its misery.

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Cleita

(75,480 posts)
1. So is Newsweek trying to go out of business by printing
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 12:52 PM
Aug 2012

biased propaganda? Did they get bought out by a vulture capitalism organization.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
7. I don't think they ever leaned left, but they did do journalism,
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 03:44 PM
Aug 2012

you know fact checking their sources before they printed stuff. Their editorial page was where the opinions were aired, but nowhere else but the editorial page.

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)
2. I agree, cancel.
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 01:40 PM
Aug 2012

I cancelled "More" magazine when they started running quotes by Ann Coulter. I appreciate running both sides of an issue, but including her was to include extremists.

I hope they fold, too.

rwsanders

(2,606 posts)
5. I had a conversation with the sale rep for the local newspaper here in KCMO
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 02:52 PM
Aug 2012

I told her that if the only conservative voice they could find to print was Michelle Malkin, and if they were going to continue to provide a forum for idiots (the letters to the editor were the worst of the nuts) then they could keep it.
She suggested sending an e-mail to the ombudsman and I did, but of course no reply.
Can't wait to see that one go under also.

LittleGirl

(8,287 posts)
3. When we first moved to the states
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 02:39 PM
Aug 2012

my husband got me a subscription to Newsweek and when the first edition arrived, I asked him, what's this? He said it was one of my christmas presents. I said, cancel it. Sorry, but I can't read that magazine anymore. He asked why? I said they choose Ben Bernacke as person of the year! Oh. Okay. I'll cancel it then.

NJCher

(35,706 posts)
8. Newsweek's in trouble w/their print version
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 03:47 PM
Aug 2012

I read they are thinking of going all "online."

A friend sent me a "gift" subscription for Newsweek. When I went to download it, I saw the cover which had something about "bye bye Barack" on it and I decided to just blow the whole "gift" off.

Yes, there was other content in the magazine that could have been interesting, but I just couldn't see past the cover.

So you can tell a book by its cover? I just didn't want to explore it anymore. I have too many other interesting things to read.


Cher

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