That's what I said about midway through the Clinton Administration.
Newsweek used to be fairly conservative, but I'm old enough to remember when Time was staunchly anti-Communist.
I asked for, and got, a subscription to Newsweek when I was in high school (early '70's). Back then it was thoughtful and fairly dense (I also had subscriptions to Science and Scientific American). Newsweek was kind of like an American version of The Economist.
Of course, they went wild during Watergate, which broke wide open my senior year in high school. IIRC, they did more than 50 cover stories on the scandal. Every baby boomer probably remembers their cover that had Nixon's face formed out of magnetic recording tape, with two reels for the eyes.
Every branch of the MSM got so full of itself after Watergate. They had brought down a United States President, and they were beside themselves with pride and pleasure. In hindsight, there was probably no publication that took their role in Watergate more seriously than Newsweek, which was essentially the national edition of The Washington Post (although that connection was unknown to me at the time; I wasn't in the habit of reading the masthead, and the names Ben Bradlee and Kathrine Graham meant nothing to me).
My parents subscribe to it, and I see it in doctor's and dentist's offices. As has been observed by others, it's unbelivable how shrunken it is. It's just a pamphlet now, like something they hand to you as you're going into Sam's Club. A playground for some aging hacks who have never gotten over their glory years, and keep at it to maintain the illusion that they're still glamorous, witty, and influential.
I'd say it's sad, but they are so infuriating that it's hard not to gloat.
So I'm going with gloat. Gloat gloat gloat!
It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.
Some might say that Nixon's smiling somewhere, but I don't know about that.
Well, come to think of it, maybe I do.