All the salient points have been made about Newsweek’s demise. The bigger question is what exactly the field of print media is offering its ever-more-emphatically straying readers. What we’re getting for the most part is shoddy as well as downright biased and corrupt political reporting and painfully meager, restricted, and generic cultural offerings.
It’s NOT just the new technologies–it’s the utter vacuity of product that print media is offering.