Newsweek Rant

Okay, have you seen the new Newsweek magazine? Newsweek changed their format about 6 months ago.

I realized the other day that I have taken Newsweek magazine as a subscrber for 20 years! Am I really that old? I have subscribed to Newsweek longer than our nanny has been alive. Sheesh.

Now, I have loved Newsweek. Maybe even more than Costco. Maybe even more than Target. I have loved the magazine.

Sure, I didn't always agree with the magazine. Especially when I felt there was a little spin on something written in there. That bothered me. They had the back page for the editorials and I liked the editorials confined to that back page. That way, I could avoid reading them.

But, Newsweek changed. All the great photos, gone. All the excellent in-depth analysis of the news artcles, gone. All the interesting back stories that no one else was reporting, gone. All the interesting tidbits I hadn't heard from anyone else and no one else had heard them either so I looked really cool telling them, gone.

Newsweek now needs to change it's name to "Opinionweek." That's all it is.

Its crap.

All around me, people are throwing their opinion at me all day long. People are telling me on Facebook how horrible they think the earthquake in Haiti is. People are taking out billboards to tell me what they think of Obama. People are on television talking about what a creep Pat Robertson is after his recent comments. Frankly, I am tired of hearing what everyone thinks everywhere. What use is discussion with others when I already know all the opinions through TV, Twitter, Facebook, billboards, blogs (ha! like this one), and now the "news." What I loved about Newsweek is that they reported the news that was interesting with the details I didn't know from all the quick info outlets. Now, that's gone. I just get more people's opinions about things I already know.

I miss the old Newsweek. I miss reading the NEWS of the week and making my own opinions and then sharing them with others who could do more than quote the opinions of someone on TV.

So, goodbye Newsweek. You were one of my longest relationships, but you have let me down.