Posted: 5/4/2009 6:50:09 PM EDT
| I currently have subscription to time but my god it was months of pure worship of obama. Subsxription is almost up which is more conservative or is their one I'm missing? |
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Neither is close to conservative and both very liberal but it appears Newsweek in the midst of an even harder turn left and a remake in to a left wing editorial (opinion) magazine, which is what they basically have already been doing. And Newsweek has hinted it may drop print and go online only.
So of the two Time. |
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IIRC Newsweek ran something like 7 or 8 Obanger covers during the election (to 1 or 2 for McCain) I wouldn't buy either. Im so sick of seeing his ugly mug on the front of magazine covers I wanna puke all over the magazine racks at the supermarket. Ever notice how his ears stick out so far? |
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They're both bad. I saw a copy of Time in some waiting room for the first time in a few years the other day. It was pathetic. Mostly celebrity crap and entertainment, plus some Obama-worship on his first hundred days. The whole thing was a few pages long. I can't think of any reason I'd want to read even the shortened version.
Technology has passed them by. Their market niche has expired. |
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What about US News & World Report or National Review? I thought they were pro-conservative. National Review is a monthly political magazine. It's not in the same category as Time, Newsweek & US World Report. The Economist is probably the best newsweekly magazine, but they have their own tiresome biases. The Economist isn't aimed at the brain-dead like Time and Newsweek are though. |
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Time and Newsweek are both trash, utterly unworthy of being called journalism. They have practically no news content whatsoever, just nice slick photoessays with some blurbs of text to tell the reader what to think. Also headlines in a big font. It's like reading a kid's book IMHO.
I liked the Economist, but it's expensive. You get a lot of information about world affairs from the Economist that isn't found elsewhere so the price is worth it. There is more news in one weekly issue of the Economist that you will find in an entire quarter's worth of Time/Newsweek. I wouldn't call them conservative but they are very good reporters and you will have a lot to read. ETA: To me Time and Newsweek are indistinguishable as far as degree of leftism. I just don't have the patience to decide if one is only slightly less leftist than the other. |
Newsweek has gone so far left they make Bill Clinton look conservative. They're review of the Star Trek movie tried to compare Star Trek characters to Bush vs Obama. It basically turned into a Obama is great article , Bush is bad. Never really figured out if the movie is any good. I'm not renewing.
I'm of the train of thought that it's good to know how the other side thinks and what they're up to but there is absolutely no news value what so ever in Newsweek. The only redeeiming quality is the occsional George Will or Gingrich or Samuelson article. All the rest are extremely far left Zakaria, Quinlan, Zakaria being one of the worst. |
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It's sort of like askng, "would you rather be shot with 9mm or 40 cal?" Both choices suck. And you can't even use those glossy pages to line the birdcage or wipe your ass. I was thinking "who would you rather screw, hillary clinton or nancy pelosi" which is the same as being shot IMHO. |
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Quoted: I was thinking "who would you rather screw, hillary clinton or nancy pelosi" which is the same as being shot IMHO. |
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Hmmm. Which one, which one? Neither really as each one is pretty darn liberal on different subjects. I gave up on both in the late 1990s. I figured after 9/11 someone who wasn' ready to blame us might be able to right an article in there but they failed at that. Then the poorly written and researched Newsweek article that caused a wee bit of an overreaction by some ROPers. Hmm, neither. George Will usually has an article in Newsweek every few weeks but I'm not a huge George Will fan. |