NEWsweek (get it?)
David Carr has an article today’s New York Time analyzing Newsweek’s redesign. My Dad, because he is old and gets up early like a freak, has already written a great summary for the laymen:
As become customary for Big Media reporters, Carr said the problem with the re-design is that it doesn’t account for the Internet, which has made the newsweekly obsolete, along with the newspaper, and for all I know, the filling station.
Big Media look out for each other. Carr felt obliged to write his real message between the lines of his article. Any alert or even one-third alert reader got Carr’s subtext, namely, “this product is Christ-awful and Meacham is the champion ass of journalism.”
During the article Carr holds The Economist up as the holy grail of weekly newsmagazines and print journalism in general. It is one of the few dead tree outlets that is booming. Carr mentions the image-concious nature of Economist readers while my Dad argues that the Economist is simply a great magazine that dares to be worth the money you pay for it. I side with pops on this one.
What’s next for Newsweek? Find out after the jump.