As a past reader and fan of Newsweek, I wasn't in the least surprised to hear the announcement that its owner, the Washington Post Company had put this once great magazine up for sale. In fact, my actual response was a grin and a muttered, "About time!" Back in my flying every week days, Newsweek was my constant companion, always a copy in my briefcase usually nestled in there with Time. I bought both at newsstand price almost every week for more than twenty years.

However, the last few of those twenty years, I began to realize that, as with the evening network news reports, Newsweek was no longer providing timely, well-written, news summaries, it was providing me with liberal Democrat Party talking points disguised as news coverage. I found myself becoming more disenchanted with the magazine's left-leaning content and less inclined to buy it at the airport newsstands. As Newsweek leaned further left and became an in-house Democrat organ, I leaned further away and went from buying it weekly to perhaps a monthly purchase if there was a particular item I wanted to read, and finally to nothing at all.

I have never understood how companies that want to do business with the entire country seem to think it's perfectly acceptable to insult more than half of their potential viewers/readership who lean conservative by slanting their material to reflect only the political views of the leftist minority of one political party. I think any true businessman will tell you this is not a sound marketing concept unless you actually desire to target only a niche market.

Just to further demonstrate how clueless he is, Jon Meacham, soon-to-be out-of-work editor, was on the Jon Stewart show where he arrogantly boasted,

"I do not believe that Newsweek is the only Catcher in the Rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them," Meacham said. "And I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff."