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1 posted on 08/05/2013 4:01:43 PM PDT by Biggirl
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Although Ms. Brown does not utter the word “Talk,” her last print magazine, which ended in heartbreaking failure, she acknowledges that she missed the “rhythms” of long-form journalism and that she felt she could not do all the work she craved on the Web.

"missed the 'rhythms' of long-form journalism"??? WHAT sort of gobbledegook and double talk is that?
Put quite simply, Ms. Brown has her head up her ass.

2 posted on 08/05/2013 4:07:52 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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That's quite a record - a product that could take down both old media and new media.

5 posted on 08/05/2013 4:28:11 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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From the article:

When Jon Meacham, the magazine’s last editor under The Washington Post’s ownership, tried to turn Newsweek into an Economist-like ideas journal, the magazine’s decline accelerated. Between 2006 and 2010, the magazine’s total circulation shrank by half, to 1.6 million...

All the "ideas" in Meacham's "ideas journal" were hard-core liberalism. The Economist at least gives a nod to reality once in a while.

Of course, The New York Times is incapable of addressing this issue. For them, any idea worth having is by definition a liberal idea.

To paraphrase a key line in Blade Runner: "they don't know they're liberals."

Fish don't know water is wet. When you're swimming underwater, you can't experience the sensation of wetness.

Everyone at the New York Times is submerged in the water of the liberal media axis. To them, liberalism is just "what is," as Rush Limbaugh has explained so many times.

The fact that many people outside their little synthetic-reality bubble don't buy into it just doesn't compute for them.

And yet - ironically - they believe that they are more in tune with the common man than was - say - Andrew Breitbart. Or Bill Whittle.

6 posted on 08/05/2013 5:17:32 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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Tina Brown or Helen Gurley Brown-what difference does it make?

Are they not to indistinguishable British peas in a pod with Helen Gurley Brown having perhaps even fewer scruples but both represent what has gone wrong with American journalism and its pandering after the sensational and its exalting of the decadent. Worst of all, they deconstructed brick by brick the American culture which supports our constitutional system, according to the recipe of The Frankfurt School.


7 posted on 08/05/2013 5:23:19 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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Harman bought Newsweek for $1.00 a couple of years ago, so if it was sold for at least $2.00, that would be a 100% profit, so I don’t know what all the tears and teeth-gnashing are all about. Doubled their money in just two years. Looks like a pretty good business investment from where I sit, at least tongue-in-cheek-wise.


8 posted on 08/05/2013 6:35:03 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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BTW, I’m just loving watching all of these commie propaganda organs fade away. Sold twice now and having completely ceased paper publication, Newsweek now has no more gravitas than that it is a trademarked word of no particular value.

New York Times finally unloaded Boston Globe at about a billion percent loss a few days ago, and why, just today, Washington Post Inc. was forced to sell its flagship dead-tree publishing commie organ to a commie internet billionaire, who I hope will transform WaPo the way Tina Brown transformed Newsweek.


9 posted on 08/05/2013 6:45:21 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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