What, for example, is this graphic on the letters page? Why, for that matter, is there still a letters page? It's the first page of content you come to. Five one-paragraph comments on the issue published two weeks ago--room for little more than a thumbs up or down. On the Internet, thousands of people have their say immediately and at length. And then a self-parody: "Your thoughts on swine flu" -the cover story two weeks ago--"in six words." Hali McGrath of Berkeley, California, submitted, "Blah, blah, swine flu, blah blah." And Newsweek published it.
My mother has subscribed to Newsweek I think my entire life. I don't recall ever reading anything enlightening, and the thumbs up thumbs down bull shit simply infuriated me. I think Newsweek must exist on mom-inertia.
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