Heh.

Until Meacham and the lib crowd decided to turn it into the New Republic with pictures. NR has better writing, anyway.

Back in the 1980s before I was on the Internet, I had a subscription to US News and World Report, which wasn’t really conservative but not knee-jerk liberal like Time and Newsweak were. I balanced it out with a subscription to National Review.

Time has always been liberal, they just pretend to be unbiased in nearly exactly the same way that CNN does– which since they have the same corporate parent, shouldn’t be all that surprising.

Apply to Erick and OPs as well? What do mean by “the Upper West Side.” Have you been there? Do you know people from there? Or are you just stereotyping and making prejudicial comments about a generalized group of people, the sort of you decry when applied to conservatives?

I grew up on the Upper West Side. My parents did. So did my grandparents. The Upper West Side is ethnically diverse, populated with very conservative Jews, and was home to a number of people who died in 9/11. If you don’t like identity politics, don’t play them yourself.

National politicians on the right get up at national conventions and decry “Hollywood values” and are applauded. What would happen if a Democratic politician got up at a national convention and mocked “Texas values” or “Georgia values”? He or she would be vilified, and people on this site would scream.

It used to be “New York values” was code for “liberal Jews.” Is that what you’re getting at here, Eric? If you want to use New York, and the World Trade Center, as a rallying cry, then have some respect for the people who live there.

And the Titanic was owned by the White Star Line, which failed and was bought out, and eventually killed off entirely.

Is there a lesson here? [/snark]

I was reading over here a bit, followed a link to Politico (Obey dropping out!), and started reading over there a bit. What did I find?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0510/WaPo_to_sell_Newsweek.html

Apparently WaPo prefers to MAKE money, and Newsweek doesn’t cut it. Didn’t read the whole thing but thought I’d mention it, heh.

NOT!!!

but it’s always good to see the Precambrians in the news media continue their spiral downwards.

She’s like those punching bags we had when we were kids that when you knocked them over, they popped right back up. She may well end up being the only one standing.

I’m with the majority who don’t want her to enter the presidential race, and the same majority who really like her doing what she is doing right now, tweaking the noses of the leftists.

“In a statement, Graham said the magazine “might be a better fit elsewhere” given the current climate. ”

That way it would fit in the bottom of cages better.

I do not think I can recall the last time I looked at any of the dead tree media. I forgot they still existed.

It seems to be a common feeling amongst the liberal MSM that there are enough liberals out there to support media that will cater to there beliefs.
So Air America tried it and died. The NY Times is going down the drain.
Broadcast TV viewership is declining. On cable news Fox is spanking them hard. MSNBC is going down. Big star, A movies are losing out.
Poll after poll shows the majority of people don’t like the leftist media.
But they keep trying the same old same old.

Wa Po will sell off Newsweak but whole will buy Wa Poo?

Meacham is a genuine pompous ass. His bizarre religious column with Sally Quinn has really been a strange venture. Every so often it is nice to see someone fail. I hate to say that but …oh well.

Newsweek should just die off. No one should try to save it. The big media should get a lot smaller because it is too insulated and knows nothing about how the public feels on major issues.

Back in the 1990s, the lefty pundit Alexander Cockburn wrote this about the Clinton/Lewinsky press coverage:

“Did the pundits make fools of themselves? Yes, indeed. They made incredible, unforgivable misjudgments about public opinion. This is because most of the pundits clustered in the studios of the networks, MSNBC and PBS are stupid, largely right-wing people who talk only to each other, read only each other and in consequence have very little contact with external reality. They should all be fired. ”

Love the “largely right-wing people” comment about MSNBC!

Also he wrote:

“There is, these days, not much actual reporting in mainstream, corporate journalism. Within the circumference of the entire media-industrial complex, the space given over to unearthing of facts is minuscule in comparison to the opinion-mongering facilities, gigantic smokehouses of punditry the size of a thousand football fields. ”

There are too many isolated, ignorant “media people” (Frank Rich, anyone?) who comment on the Tea Parties, immigration, etc, without leaving the comfort of their offices and TV studios. Newsweek has been part of this problem.

I don’t trust any journalists who think that the space between the Hudson River and San Bernardino is called The Wilderness.

Perhaps Jon Meacham might find a more receptive readership and feel more comfortable if he moved his operation to Venezuela or Cuba. He might even take President Obama with him. Good riddance to Newsweek!

Ok ‘muggedbyreality’ and all of your brethren. We get it. You can’t win the argument. You never could win the argument. You’re afraid to debate the issues. You have no facts on your side and Yes, we know, you really are the smartest guy in the room it’s just that we’re so busy clinging to our God and our guns that we don’t appreciate your stellar intellect so, you call us names.

So let me be absolutely clear, are you ready, got you pencil and paper to take notes? and I know you can’t see it, but I’m typing really slowly and speaking loudly to myself as I type.

I know exact who I am!!! And when you call me and MY brethren names, I know exactly who you are!!!

I will continue to pray for you.