"It is not an editorial problem,” Fareed Zakaria, a former editor of Newsweek International,
told the
Times last week, for an article about
Newsweek's decision to abandon print and go all-digital. “It is a larger business problem.” I'd argue it's both. I subscribed to the venerable newsweekly in March, curious about what new editor Tina Brown had done to revive the moribund property. My first issue was the talked-about
Mad Men issue, with its
retro ads and art design—which I liked! And I was impressed by the
expose about aging Boeing jets. But my opinion of the magazine soon soured. Here's five examples of why—and I won't even mention the
asparagus fellatio cover,
Obama with a rainbow halo, or
MUSLIM RAGE.
