Hard to believe they sold Newsweek for a dollar recently…

Updated on June 30, 2011 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

By which I mean, of course, they sold ownership of the magazine for a dollar (and assumption of the periodical’s debt). Anyway, to save money this summer they’re printing more biweekly issues of the newsweekly–er, wait…–so because of that they have a huge backlog of TRULY AMAZING AND RELEVANT MATERIAL.

For instance, the current double issue which features a cover story by publisher Tina Brown examining “Diana at 50 If She Were Here Now.” Wow, that makes you think, doesn’t it?

I have to admit, I have long maintained a certain level of animosity towards peoples’ continued and completely unjustified interest in one of the 20th century’s great non-entities. Even aside from that, though, really, this is the sort of material Newsweek is relying on in its patently doomed attempts to stay afloat?  Good grief.

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  • roger h

    one part of the article suggest she would be sleeping with a Pakistani General.

    Come on Miss Brown, we could do better than that if we were making stuff up.

  • Ericb

    I’m surprised that an Elvis-like cult never developed around her, you know, when people’s infatuation becomes so extreme that it’s more like UFOs and Bigfoot than the usual celebrity worship.

  • Reed

    They could change the name to Bi Weekly News. It would allow them to pick up an entirely different readership demographic.

  • John Campbell

    I thought I had something worth inputting but I realized Ken and Reed had already punched the shark perfectly!

  • David Fullam

    I’ll occasionally look at a Newsweek at the Dr.s’ office. It’s way past time they changed the name to Gossip Week. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

  • Reed

    John, you are my new hero. No one punches the shark like you do!

  • Rock Baker

    Next Issue: What New Dance Steps Walter Cronkite Would Be Learning if he were Alive and 20 Years Old?

  • Marsden

    Did anyone see the Mr. T cartoon where he actually punched a shark? There’s a great review over at agony booth.

    Ken! I’m glad you’re back, please get better and enjoy the weekend. I’m hoping you can do an article about Legends of the Superheroes as a cap off to your wonder Superfriends reviews.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_the_Superheroes

    I thought I imagined seeing these until I saw this article. It’s amaazing what sticks in your memory seeing something only once over 30 years ago, kind of like the Star Wars Holiday Special.

  • Petoht

    It might say something about me, but my first thought wasn’t about how ghoulish this is, or how it’s utter tripe, but that the cover image has one of the worst photoshops I’ve ever seen in my life. I mean, seriously, how do you get away with that? That’s almost as bad as if they had just taped a picture of her face on the cover.

  • P Stroud

    The traditional media notices that the tar pits are soft and sticky.