Posted on 11/05/2010 7:54:06 PM PDT by LdSentinal
U.S. News & World Report, once part of the triumvirate of newsweeklies but reduced now to a spare monthly, will print its last issue for subscribers in December.
Its news content will now exist exclusively and free on the Web, though the magazine will still publish eight single issues a year.
The move is the culmination of a long process inside U.S. News to gradually de-emphasize the printed magazine and shift focus to its highly influential and profitable rankings guides for institutions like colleges and hospitals.
U.S. News had been scaled back in stages as the economics of publishing each week became too challenging. It went from printing once a week to twice monthly in 2008. Just five months later, it switched to once a month. Now it will cease to exist as readers know it.
The decision signals a desire by U.S. News and its owner, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, to get out of the magazine subscription business. News — in the conventional who-what-when-where-why sense — will no longer be a part of U.S. News in print. All that will remain of the venerable magazine will be the guidebooks and single-topic issues that will be for sale only on newsstands.
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It’s a strange coincidence how all the news magazines made a hard turn to the left right before they failed. Wonder why that is?
Years ago US News was a powerhouse dealing in hard news reality. When it sold out to the liberals it became worthless.
I used to get either "Men's Health" or "Men's Fitness" magazine (can't remember which), until October, 2007 when they put Obambi's full-sized picture on the cover. I cancelled my subscription immediately, citing that I didn't want to buy a magazine that supports a socialist. They refunded the remainder of my subscription.
Car and Driver is on my watch list - I've been getting that magazine since 1977, but they changed management recently, and my favorite columnist, Patrick Bedard, is no longer with the magazine. If they start pushing green, then I'll withhold my green. :)
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