Newsweek

Anybody who talks to me on a regular basis knows that I have some serious issues with the new re-designed and re-imagined Newsweek. Serious issues. Their decision to target the "elite" and make the conversation instead of reporting it seems just a tad pretentious to me. And the fact that it now has a blatent liberal agenda (don't try to argue this one) and doesn't admit it just ticks me off. Have a liberal agenda, but at least admit it.

But this week takes the cake. I find it rather ironic that the issue of the magazine that landed in my mailbox the Monday after I was fired was their "The Recession is Over" issue. It's not. I'm here to tell you that even if the economists have decided that the economy has stopped shrinking...people are still hurting. Maybe most of those people are those evil blue collar Republicans who live in the middle of the country (the people that Newsweek's publishers don't want to target); but even some of their "elite" readers are hurting.

Even their follow-up story on Obama mentioning the article talks about their lofty plans:

"Here at NEWSWEEK, we like to think that we help set the

agenda for the national conversation."

Really, Newsweek? Really? Whatever happened to being journalists? To reporting what is happening? Maybe that's why you've had to completely re-design your lay-out to try and get readership up: because you are so busy setting the agenda for the national conversation that you've forgotten that part of setting the agenda is reporting what is actually happening instead of "writing the first draft of the president's speeches."

Maybe try for a little bit of journalism and you won't need to rely on plugs from the Commander in Chief to sell copies of your magazine.

*Note: I only receive Newsweek via a free subscription through my parents' paid subscription. We're about to decide as a family to cancel said subscription.