Newsweek

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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.

Product Description

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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• Format: Magazine
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Publisher: Newsweek/ Daily Beast Company
• ASIN: B000EMFWA2
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (172 customer reviews)
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59 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No match for the Beastmaster, alas, February 17, 2011

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Maxtone Witherball - See all my reviews

This review is from: Newsweek (1-year auto-renewal) (Magazine)

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.

310 of 361 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars News? Heck, it's indistinguishable from People Magazine!, March 10, 2003

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Daniel L Edelen (Mt. Orab, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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My wife and I are longtime subscribers to Newsweek, but no more. We are finally letting our subscription lapse.

Here's why:

1)...It's hard to escape the slew of here-today-gone-tomorrow "celebrities" that seem to increasingly grace the pages of Newsweek. In just the last couple months, P. Diddy has had at least four articles written about him. ... Is this news?

2) All ads, all the time! Even the "news" articles are ads. One entire issue was dedicated to the Playstation 2. Recently they jettisoned a couple news articles to include reviews of high-end cars, wine, and other jealousy-inducing items. You would assume from the tone of so many Newsweek tech articles lately that unless one buys the latest battery-powered gizmo, life on earth as we know it would cease. Better treasure your last breath - and how convenient this transition since several times this year the magazine has been overwhelmed by healthy lifestyle inserts that appear to be part of the magazine. But a closer examination reveals them to be nothing more than massive ads for drugs and health-related products. Very deceptive, since there is no empirical evidence included to counter the claims being made in the article-like inserts. Simply appalling.

3) Pop culture run amok. Any aspirations Newsweek ever had to being a top news journal have been jettisoned. Instead we are greeted with a lowbrow look at "What's Cool" rather than "What's Newsworthy". When everything is relevant, nothing is.

4) Lowering of journalistic quality. Where have the editorial works by the movers and shakers that shape the future (and accurately recall the past) gone to? You used to be able to read an article or editorial by someone like Solzhenitsyn or Kissinger, but now you are more like to get an article by J. Lo or Aguilera....P>...P>6) Target audience dumb-down. It seems the target audience for the magazine consists of teenage girls who follow hip-hop and their video game-playing boyfriends. Does someone need to educate that group? Certainly. But with everyone rushing in to fill that market niche, isn't there anything left for adults? Even a casual read of featured writers like Anna Quindlen reveals a complete lack of logic on the pages of the magazine. No wonder the current generation lacks discernment.

In short, find something else to keep you abreast of the real news. Newsweek's day has come and gone.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It is a shadow of its former self, February 11, 2010

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csmo (Puget Sound) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Newsweek (Magazine)

I have subscribed to Newsweek since 1968. For years it was a useful summary of the week's important events with thoughtful editorials and a few final pages of "fluff". But, it has seriously deteriorated in its content, size, and readability.
A nostalgic side of me wants to renew my subscription (with hopes that it will recover), but I am letting my subscription lapse after 41+ years...