I also read the ten-month-old copy of Newsweek or Time when I'm stuck in my boss's outer office waiting for him to get his head out of his a-- long enough to once again point my department off in another completely intellectually retarded direction.

Sorry...now back to my Monster search...

MS,

There might be a job opening on Monster.com. He hasn't a clue on how to appeal to wider audience? I agree with you, Matthew. Meacham needs a balanced staff and should realize the importance of good journalism.

Syrius

As a weekly, Newsweek can't compete on the timeliness of news. 

What it coud do, what it tries to do, is provide in-depth analysis of stories and events beyond the headlines. But because it's so obviously slanted in most of its coverage it's lost all credibility and alienated much of it's potential audience

I finally got tired of the bias and weekly snarky "down arrow" for anything and anyone conservative and cancelled my subscription years ago.

I actually think Meachum is a pretty good writer and thinker, which makes his overt biases even more  annoying.

He went to the trouble to create a blog on the Washington Post called "OnFaith" and almost all the commentators are athiests! I think the poor guy is just our of touch with how America really feels. "I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon", etc.

If you are a liberal publication, you will only have the possibility of capturing a share of the liberal publication buying market. I don't know the actual numbers but whatever % of the population who buy weekly "news" magazines, the liberal leaning are split between Time and Newsweek. At best that means that those two pubs have to split 50% of the weekly market. I'd be willing to bet that the "weekly" market is very small and shrinking. Unless they each open up their editorial minds and bring in a wider ideological pool of journalists and editors, they are each destined to go away.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

Here's a perfect example of bias at Time. This morning's on-line version had an article about the economy, and a poll that was done, and here are two of their sentences:

"The subject of leaving Iraq shows a sharp partisan divide — 65 percent of Democrats think it would help the economy a lot, but only 18 percent of Republicans think so. Just 29 percent of people think putting more money in the hands of the poor would help a great deal in fixing the country's economic problems. "

So, there's a big divide between Dims and Repubs -- as usual. But look at the low number of people who think giving rebates to the poor is helpful. Isn't that a remarkable statement?

But guess what the headline is: "Poll: To Fix Economy, Get Out of Iraq". The fact is, the Dim vs. Repubs numbers don't support this conclusion. But, it's the headline.

Any wonder Time and Newsweek are viewed as left-wing, biased rags? They can't even get the story straight when the numbers are published for all to see!

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Well Mr. Sheffield...

You summed it all up...I can't think of a thing to add...well I could when it comes to Meacham, the job he is doing and has done with his leftist rag, better left unsaid.

Liberals are always stuck in the same past. They think Iraq was Vietnam and think sitting like a prima dona in an office with a title means you are someone.

I once had Joseph Farah lecture me on my blog that my writing style was not correct. I correct him that my writing style reflected a new generation of communication which is compressed and comes to the point quicker.
Last night I bounced over to some Russian paper online and was reading it and was puzzled as the thing read EXACTLY like the New York Times in structure.

THAT is the problem with Newsweek and Time for starters. They are still speaking in a language developed in 1850 and are the same types resisting changing from clay tablets to paper.

One gains readers by printing what the reader wants in information. No one wants to read that the United States sucks, President Bush is a mental retard and Americans are all fat, stupid and fat and stupid. Sure that gets Jeff Rense his pot of gold preying off of nimwits, but there is only so much hype even those Ron Paul ranters can take before they burn out and just give up screaming.

Newsweek needs to curb the print media to view it only as an outlet for ads and for promotion of it's online and video feeds.
Newsweek needs to hire sluggers and not the Koran is in the pooper propagandists. Think of it as HuffPo with glam people who actually have brains.
Newsweek needs to sex it up period. Kiran Chetry does not get her jobs and keep them by being frumper Couric. Jack up the skirts, put a smile on it, make America feel good and people will at least look at the pictures if they are not reading online or the mag.

I pointed this out to Newsbusters too in getting a Newsbusters babe contest for a promo........Rupert Murdoch can not be wrong and there is a reason FOX has legs to Tennessee and The Sun has Page 3 girls.
Newsweek does not have to get into porn, but it needs to put the cherry on top like all successful business news does. Do you think CBS has Lara Logan on because she has anything worth saying? Heck no she was a model with long legs and big boobs.......that is what CBS sells just like that old bag Leslie Stahl had skirts jacked to the nether regions when women had them at their ankles.

Editors are the last thing Newsweak needs. They need someone who understand marketing in America. You have to have a readership or audience to amount to something or else you are Bill Buckley waiting for Ronald Reagan to put your Conservative ideas in place.........Newsweak is not bright enough to foster those kinds of mental followings, so they have to start doing things correctly.

Oh and if Newsweek does the above in advice and does not pay me for this advice I will sue their liberal behinds as the internet is forever and recorded here..........because I had a national mag steal an entire formating idea when I was 28 from me when I was up for editor and I just let it slide.......not this time. Either pay me as an advisor or pay me for stealing my ideas.

This is business and it is time that libearl rag hire a Conservative business person to iron out the wrinkles.

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 "I've got four people in Baghdad who could be killed at any moment who are trying to tell the truth the best they can of that story."

Maybe if those folks got out of Baghdad and into the rest of Iraq  the stories may be different. Magazines like Newsweek are supposed to take a larger more dispassionate view of world affairs not the type of "Koran in the toilet" journalism they indulge in.

Sadly, at the risk of refighting a previous war, this hasn't changed since Vietnam when journalists were content to hang out at the Circle Sport in Saigon and chase the bar girls. Slim pickings in Baghdad though, no wonder he only has 4.

Nothing gets printed about the courage and resiliance of an Iraqi people who have never known real freedom and are asked to transform themselves from a feudal nation to a american style democracy in just a few short years. Nothing about a country in the making and the enormous strides  made by a military just learning how to be one. Only about the latest suicide bombing or the latest roadside explosion because they have the old newspaper motto that "if it bleeds it reads".  Newsweek and Time are just glossy coated rags, good for nothing but landfill.

Now ask me what I really think!!!