Newsweek Drops Issue, Cites Poor Ad Sales

Newspeak ^ | 7/27/2005 | Editors

[NixonsAngryGhost]

Newsweek Drops Issue, Cites Poor Ad Sales

Due to low ad pages during late summer, Newsweek is trimming the number of issues it publishes by one, opting for a double issue dated Aug. 29-Sept. 5, Mediaweek reports.

Through July 19, Newsweek's ad pages have fallen 15.6 percent this year, to 970. It's not alone. A lack of spending in the technology and automotive sectors has hurt the whole newsweekly category with ad pages falling 10.5 percent, to 6,332 through July 19.

[NixonsAngryGhost]

@@ew You Fineman and Isikoff. This aint some Soviet country The market rules.

[MikefromOhio]

[LibFreeOrDie]

How about they drop all 52 issues?

[Paleo Conservative]

You misspelled Newsweak.

[Parley Baer]

I hope the trend continues. The LA Times is also having problems. Hollywood is way down on ticket sales. Life is good. Hehehehe.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Yeah, Baby! Read a book and liberate your mind. Read Newsweek and snap on the shackles.

[SamAdams76]

File under "Didn't Know It Was Still Around."

[Swanks]

Old Media's dead tree version of 'news' isnt fooling anyone. As evidenced by, no one's buying anymore.

[BoBToMatoE]

EXCELLENT!

I hope its because all the antiAmerican barf they have been writing lately.

I pray that both the advertisers and readership is getting fed up enough to just leave it there and let it whither. Sorta like PMSNBC.com. They have been/are much worse than CNN ever thought of.

[Carling]

To borrow a page

CW - Newsweek DOWN

CW - The Truth UP

[aculeus]

Good news. Just remember every minute spent on FR is a minute not spent reading Newsweek, Time, The Slimes, etc.

May they all die.

[PilloryHillary]

GOOD NEWS! They deserve it over at News Weak. That rag of a magazine isn't fit to line a bird cage.

[scott says]

WHERE Newsweek belongs...

[softwarecreator]

I hope the trend continues. The LA Times is also having problems. Hollywood is way down on ticket sales. Life is good. Hehehehe.

The thing is .... they list all kinds of reasons except the fact that the majority of Americans are SICK of this anti-American rhetoric and are silently boycotting.  Yet, how do they explain the fact that the ratings for FOXnews and Rush are doing well?

[Tribune7]

ping

[PGalt]

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's getting better all the time.

Getting so much better all the time

[SIDENET]

Great picture! It summed up almost exactly what I was thinking.

[Tribune7]

How about they drop all 52 issues?

I think that might be coming.

[MikefromOhio]

hehe

I wish I could find the audio although I do the impression pretty well too :)

[al baby]

Thats as funny as the one about where does a boat go when its sick



To the Dock

[maggief]

[topher]

Maybe we should find out who is buying ads in Newsweek and promote boycotts -- to show our support for Our Troops!

[NewMediaFan]

Next stop for Newsweek:

The Museum of Oddities

[gonzo]

"...GOOD NEWS! They deserve it over at News Weak. That rag of a magazine isn't fit to line a bird cage..."

That would be redundant! How much shiite can you put on a page?...............FRegards

[Enterprise]

I have a great idea to help. Just cut Fineman and Isikoff's pay!

[CFC__VRWC]

Only 51 more issues to go!

[Conservative Firster]

FLASH: 'GRETA' TOP OF CABLE NEWS RACE
NITE OF TUES, JULY 27, 2005

FOXNEWS GRETA 2,997,000 [VIEWERS]
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,705,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY/COMES 2,415,000

CNN LARRY KING 765,000
CNNHN NANCY GRACE 752,000
CNN PAULA ZAHN 623,000
CNN AARON BROWN 577,000

(Note: MSNBC partners with Newsweek)

MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 462,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 318,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 192,000
MSNBC TUCKER 178,000

[Blogatron]

Poof! The end of August 2005 just went down the memory hole. Double plus gone.

[hinckley buzzard]

I notice US News and World Report has gotten pretty slender lately also. Haven't actually seen a current Time in months.

[upchuck]

There are time when I think maybe, just maybe, the pendulum is beginning, ever so slightly, to swing the other way.

This is encouraging news.

[GoBucks2002]

Yet, how do they explain the fact that the ratings for FOXnews and Rush are doing well?

Simple: we are nothing but mind-numbed robots too intellectually inferior to understand the nuances of the genius John Kerry.

[newzjunkey]

Boo-hoo. I feel for 'em but can't seem to reach them.

Newsweek LIED, people DIED. Is that a flushing sound I hear?

[martin_fierro]

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[SIDENET]

Due to low ad pages during late summer

Yes, but what are the "low ad pages" due to? Let's not BS ourselves now, Newsweak.

Through July 19, Newsweek's ad pages have fallen 15.6 percent this year

That's pretty darn bad. I hope you go under, suckers.

love,

SIDENET

[ForGod'sSake]

And the hits just keep on comin'!

[Political Junkie Too]

The next step is a joint TIME/Newsweek issue.

-PJ

[ForGod'sSake]

A double ping for everyone. I should have made a last minute check before posting mine.

[SIDENET]

I notice US News and World Report has gotten pretty slender lately also. Haven't actually seen a current Time in months.

I do believe that Karl Rove is on the current cover of Time. LOL!

ROOOOOOOOOOOVE!!!

[StoneGiant]

Perhaps there's a reason for the drop in sales?

[Mad Mammoth]

The LA Times is also having problems.

Yeah, and the best news out in La-La-Land is that the LA Times is dropping that puke Michael Kinsley from the head editorial position (although Mikey will stay on board like the good leftist he is)

I still maintain that there is something very screwed up in this universe when a good, decent patriotic journalist like Michael Kelly has to die in the sands of Iraq while imbedded with U.S. troops, while a far-left whining POS like Kinsley continues to breathe oxygen.

It's true: Life Ain't Fair.

[Tacis]

Newsweek could really improve it's public image by simply prohibiting Eleanor Clift from telling any one, any time that she was a Newsweek employee!!

[ForGod'sSake]

The next step is a joint TIME/Newsweek issue.

Add USN&WR for a hat trick?

[hole_n_one]

ha ha

[builder]

Just the beginning of the end.

[blam]

"I notice US News and World Report has gotten pretty slender lately also. Haven't actually seen a current Time in months."

USN&WR at one time was a very good magazine...then, it was purchased by Mortimer Zuckerman. The rest is history.

[DoughtyOne]

SpewsBleak

[RayChuang88]

Hey Newsweek,

If you didn't do that issue that caused unnecessary riots in the Muslim world (among a lot of other miscues) you wouldn't be in the predicament you are in now. The two annual reports done by the Project for Excellence in Journalism show that Americans ARE rapidly tiring of the extreme liberal bias of the mainstream media and are going to alternate sources en masse.

In short, we have no sympathy for your problems and frankly, you need to

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I love watching them shrivel away!

[TonyRo76]

Newsreek Schadenfreude!

[sageb1]

"I notice US News and World Report has gotten pretty slender lately also. Haven't actually seen a current Time in months."

Actually, all printed news is having a major problem. I'd love to blame it on the liberal left media, and I'm sure that is a partial factor, but print publications cannot compete with the Internet.