Podhertz was right. Newsweek deliberately tried to sell itself as a high-end liberal magazine while still claiming to be objective. That's what killed the magazine in the end. If it wanted to be the print version of the Huffington Post, why not come out and be honest? The problem is that there are too many of these snobby magazines in addition to the liberal blogs on the internet. Newsweek was simply chasing after a smaller audience.
Good riddance to this waste of paper. I cancelled my subscription back in 1993 when it was the rag was totally in the tank for Clinton.
What killed the rag, er mag was that no one wanted to buy their brand of dog food.
I canceled my subscription to Good Housekeeping (of all things!!!) at about the same time for the same reason. Why a non-news magazine would change their character so noticeably because of who was in the White House was beyond me. I quickly got tired of all the fawning over the Clintons.