Newsweek, we're done

[starlady]

We get Newsweek for free because we put our WHYY pledge on a credit card and it's much easier to just take the free subscription that gets you than try to argue with the volunteer to decline the damn thing. I was flipping through the current issue last night and two things jumped out at me: 

1. Nikki Haley is described, in the sub-heading of the cover story, as "articulate." 
2. The context for a quotation from one of Iceland's cabinet ministers explaining the popular response to the Prime Minister's marrying her girlfriend last week (he said the country has a passion for social justice) is phrased in terms of the Icelandic public's "lack of outrage." 

If this is the liberal CW, I despair.

Comments

[wintercreek]

Oh, I totally agree. We get Newsweek because Mr. Creek has a free subscription, and he reads it. I do not read it, and sometimes complain loudly about various things including their weirdly over-dramatic covers ("Is your baby racist?" and so on) and the fact that they gave Karl Rove a column. /o\

[starlady]

I suspect it's always been this way and it just took me this long to notice (I've been reading it since...1998? Sixth grade, anyway).

I really doubt the magazine is going to survive, honestly, but sadly it's not because of this sort of thing.