{"id":74574,"date":"2012-10-19T00:11:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18818"},"modified":"2012-10-19T00:11:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:11:30","slug":"newsweek-formed-me-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/19\/newsweek-formed-me-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek formed me (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/18\/newsweek-will-cease-print-publication-at-end-of-year\/\"><em>Newsweek<\/em> is ending its print<\/a> edition. This was long in the coming. What I find interesting is that apparently its circulation peaked in 1991, at 3.3 million. It declined to 3.1 million in 2007, and literally cratered over the past 5 years to 1.5 million! Thinking back to my own past I remember my interest in <em>Newsweek<\/em>&#8216;s cartoons, as well as the in-class discussion triggered by the latest issue of <em>Time<\/em>. There was a time when these were relevant publications. But that ended in 1995, with the rise of the internet. For years the weeklies still maintained the illusion of relevance, but I think they were living on borrowed time. People went through the motions because they always had. After all, the cover of <em>Time\u00a0<\/em>was important, everyone knew it. Until no one did. The collapse in circulation is just a reflection of the fact that this emperor had long ago shed its clothes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/QSejb_Y5NOY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that Newsweek is ending its print edition. This was long in the coming. What I find interesting is that apparently its circulation peaked in 1991, at 3.3 million. It declined to 3.1 million in 2007, and literally cratered over the past 5 years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74574"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74676,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74574\/revisions\/74676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}