So This Is How Newsweek Dies… With Thunderous Applause

Newsweek magazine has announced it will no longer exist in print form.

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, AND THEY’LL COME OUT FOR IT IN DROVES: The infamous quip often attributed to Red Skelton when asked about the enormous turnout at despised Hollywood mogul Harry Cohn’s funeral is apropos today as well: “So This Is How Newsweek Dies… With Thunderous Applause.”

Although, I’m not sure if the “We Are All Socialists Now” cover was the moment of Newsweek’s slow descent into death; there were plenty of warning signs leading up to it.

Witness the moment of Newsweek’s slow descent into death…

 Newsweek goes hard left in late 2008... Newsweek lost almost $30 million in 2009...Newsweek staff lost new offices in early 2010...Evan Thomas of Newsweek declares the President “Sort of God” in mid-2009...Newsweek seemingly puts Obama on its cover every week — OK, to be fair, every other week – during the 2008 election cycle and early 2009...By the early summer of 2010, “Washington Post Co. Seeking to Unload Money-losing Newsweek.”

In related news, National Review’s print magazine is alive and well.
Here’s why…