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Newsweek magazine -- it's still around?

By Tung Yin

I grew up reading Newsweek rather than Time or U.S. News & World Report, and when I was an adult on my own, it was one of my numerous magazine subscriptions.  But after the revamp a couple of years ago, my wife found it less interesting, and I let the subscription lapse.  Apparently it's undergone another revamp of sorts, but one that Mickey Kaus finds going in the wrong direction.

Me?  I was left thinking, "Huh, oh yeah, Newsweek. . . that's still around?"  I'm not sure if it says something unhealthy about the state of modern American print journalism, or American magazine news journalism, or just Newsweek, but I honestly have not missed it at all.

Now Entertainment Weekly . . . that's something different.  I would TOTALLY miss that.

Full post as published by The Yin Blog on March 14, 2011 (boomark / email).