Time vs. Newsweek

[ken k]

Howdy fellow tubenetters,

So i have subscribed to Time magazine for a few years now and just received a gift subscription to Newsweek. I was surprised and a bit gald to see that difference in political (can I say that?) leaning of the two magazines.

I have always felt Time was a bit out on the left, but just figured it was the usual liberal media outlook on things and having not read other publications to compare, figured they were all pretty much the same. But after reading my first Newsweek, NW seems to lean more to the right.

Anyone else read these two mags and if so what is your impression of the two.

ken k

[MartyNeilan]

I was surprised and a bit gald ...

ken k

I am pleased that you are only a bit gald. If you were much more gald, I would be concerned.

The only magazine I read with any regularity is Keyboard, and I sometimes peek at my son's Game Informer.

Everything else is available online for free, so I see no need to A) spend the money and B) kill trees for something that will wind up in the trash within days.

The main reason I continue to purchase Keyboard is they have quite a bit of useful musical information and dictation that I have archived over the years, while throwing out the useless advertisments and glowing reviews of gear that is regarded as crap two years later. If I could ever find a Bass magazine that had more than 1 or 2 useful pages in it, I would probably do the same.

Now this one time, when I was younger, I went to this store, and I bought this magazine, and it had these pictures in it that you had to unfold...

[rocksanddirt]

I don't typically read either of those publications as they skew to much towards sensationalism in the reporting (imo).

[bearphonium]

"Back in the day" it seemed as if Time did "stories" and Newsweek did "news"; and my opinion mirrors yours, that Time was lefter than Newsweek. I have way cut down on my reading of magazines, except in doctor's offices.

[Mojo workin']

I haven't read either Time or Newsweek in some time. They both have always leaned too far left for me.

If you want leaning to the right from a news magazine, check out National Review. They are definitely to the right.

And if you want REALLY left, go with The Nation.

[LoyalTubist]

Time is readily available everywhere in Southeast Asia (including Vietnam and Laos). Newsweek is a bit hard to get, although I see very little difference in the politics between the two periodicals. Newsweek is published by the Washington Post. Time is published by Time-Life.

Not to get too political, but I prefer the U.S. News and World Report. You can only find it in countries where the Fox News Channel is available (which, unlike CNN, doesn't have localized versions).

[ken k]

I was surprised and a bit gald ...

ken k

I am pleased that you are only a bit gald. If you were much more gald, I would be concerned.

The only magazine I read with any regularity is Keyboard, and I sometimes peek at my son's Game Informer.

Everything else is available online for free, so I see no need to A) spend the money and B) kill trees for something that will wind up in the trash within days.

The main reason I continue to purchase Keyboard is they have quite a bit of useful musical information and dictation that I have archived over the years, while throwing out the useless advertisments and glowing reviews of gear that is regarded as crap two years later. If I could ever find a Bass magazine that had more than 1 or 2 useful pages in it, I would probably do the same.

Now this one time, when I was younger, I went to this store, and I bought this magazine, and it had these pictures in it that you had to unfold...

Yes I was so gald that i couldn't tyope correctly.....

ken "the world's worst proof reader" k

[steve_decker]

Howdy fellow tubenetters,



I have always felt Time was a bit out on the left... But after reading my first Newsweek, NW seems to lean more to the right.



ken k

Isn't that the same as the difference between a woman who is pregnant and one who is "kind-of pregnant"?

I simply partake in the media drivel that's out there by taking it with a grain of salt and getting a chuckle or two along the way.

In the meantime, I'm going to get in line for one of the thousands of new jobs created by THE stimulus plan. I wonder what kind of training I need to operate a money printing press...

[Rick Denney]

Yes, Newsweek is a little less left-leaning than Time. But it's still on the left end of the spectrum. (As a regular reader of the Washington Post Op-Ed page, I can assure one and all that it is not as liberal, by far, as the NY Times Op-Ed page, but that's not saying much).

U.S. News and World Report, is less left-leaning than either.

The Economist is more center-right. I think it's about the best new magazine in print.

There are no strongly conservative pure news magazines, though the National Review and the American Spectator are conservative opinion magazines, offering a nice contrast to the strongly liberal (and in some cases overtly socialist) New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Mother Jones, or New Yorker magazines.

Rick "who reads them all at one time or another" Denney

[MartyNeilan]

I rather enjoy the political views of The Bloke Daily

[TubaCoopa]

I can only speak for Time magazine, but I find the publication to be slightly leftish also. However, when taken article by article, the lean does vary. Sensationalism can also be a problem. (15 Obama covers? Really?)