 | Newsweek (1-year auto-renewal)
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This weekly news magazine reports on each week s developments on the national and global news front through news, commentary and analysis. Its features include national and international affairs, business, lifestyle, society, the arts, politics, the economy, personal business, the Washington scene, health, science and technology.
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
By Maxtone Witherball
Since The Daily Beast's Tina Brown took over as editor-in-chief of Newsweek, this once-venerable magazine has gone from substantive, informative, and engrossing to lightweight, sensationalistic, and repulsive. Brown has nixed the InternationaList and NationaList (brief but enlightening summaries on otherwise underreported stories from around the country and globe), cut The Take (a series of thought-provoking columns) from about five a week to one or two (with the one or two being from the worst of the formerly well-stocked stable of columnists (long gone are Ellis Cose and Fareed Zakaria, for instance)), and started padding out the weekly with such filler as "ARE DOGS STEALING OUR JOBS?" and "WHO'S EATING YOUR LUNCH?" (a two-page graphic relating the scoop that Facebook has vanquished MySpace and Friendster, and positing that something called Blekko might one day supplant Google).
Worst of all is her prize catch, Niall Ferguson, who is taking a sabbatical from Harvard apparently only for the purpose of attacking Barack Obama in any and every forum given him. This would be fine, naturally, if Ferguson's criticisms had any validity or made any sense--but they don't. For example, in the February 21, 2011 Newsweek, Ferguson claims that Obama "never once considered a scenario in which Mubarak faced a popular revolt." This is patently false, of course; as the New York Times reported today, Obama "ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt." Ferguson also trots out a platitudinous quotation from Otto von Bismarck, of all people, as the sole support for the contention that Obama missed an opportunity during the protests in Iran in 2009--of course, what, in Ferguson's view, Obama should have done, remains unhinted-at. Ferguson wraps up his meandering, pointless hatchet job by raising the specter of the Muslim Brotherhood--yes, the same Muslim Brotherhood that has a 15% approval rating in Egypt, and whose candidate garnered all of 1% in a presidential straw poll there.
In sum, I'll be canceling my subscription momentarily.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Schoss
I've had this for a few weeks now. I used to read it before it changed ownership. Now it seems like the whole thing is one big ad for the Daily Beast. It seems to have gotten even more liberal. I thought the article on the downfall of the white male was some sloppy journalism. I saw another article online where one of their journalists got a little confrontational with Adam Carolla in an interview, and she hadn't read his book and wasn't trying to be even-handed about the interview at all. Newsweek also has an annoying new format with big pictures and big text that looks like it's written for a little kid.
I think I'll go back to Time, although I'm not thrilled about them either.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
By A Mother of 2 Kidlets
I used to subscribe to Newsweek. Now I know why I stopped. It's chocked full of ADS. Certainly not the quality magazine that I remember. And, it's quite expensive for so many ADS! Blah!
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