Newsweek site is a little dodgy... be careful out there

[Peacetrain]

I just followed a headline to the site, and my security app. stopped me.. saying it was not safe

Truthfully I used to love Newsweek when it was a magazine .. but as of late.. it seems to be more like a grocery store rag.

So I will not be looking at anymore Newsweek sites since they are questionable..

[JohnSJ]

1. Newsweek is not what it used to be

[Peacetrain]

2. Is it the same company that did the old Newsweek mag?? or did they get bought out by

the National Enquirer or something along that lines?? because it is not the same by any measure

[JHB]

16. Nope. The name and brand were bought up, it's all clickbait now

Some posts below have more

[kimbutgar]

3. My sister since she got a subscription to Newsweek in 1968 stopped her long time subscription

Because they were really pro TFG. I read a right wing person brought the magazine last year.

[dalton99a]

5. Yep, some Indian guy named Dev Pragad who aspires to be the next Rupert Murdoch

[PXR-5]

4. I like The Week!

My dad gave me a gift subscription, and I really like it.

You can also subscribe to all the news letters if you are not a subscriber.

[kimbutgar]

6. My sister stopped Newsweek and started subscribing to the Week

I used to subscribe but stopped because I was working ore and between work, cooking dinner and family obligations at night I didn’t have time to really enjoy it.

[Peacetrain]

7. I like the "Week" ..

[notinkansas]

8. Although it isn't up-to-the-minute news,

Mother Jones does in depth reporting. It's impressive.

[James48]

9. Not related to the old paper Newsweek magazine.

Somebody just took the name.

[FakeNoose]

10. It's so loaded with pop-up ads and not worth the time navigating around it

... because their articles are mostly crap. Even using an incognito window and adblockers don't help.

[Quixote1818]

11. Here is an article about what happened to them

https://dianeravitch.net/2020/10/25/the-new-republic-newsweek-has-turned-into-a-zombie-magazine/

[Peacetrain]

17. Thank you so much for that!!! It explains it all

[PXR-5]

12. I thought The Daily Beast was owned by Newsweek,

Here's that story, I found this interesting;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Beast

[Crunchy Frog]

13. I realized that there was something wrong with it

when it ran an article by Eastman arguing that Kamala Harris wasn't a natural born citizen and was ineligible to be VP.

I later learned about the "zombie magazine" phenomenon.

[Demovictory9]

14. Newsweek has gotten in the habit of reporting "news stories" from tik tok or reddit

not doing real journalism like NYT or LA times anymore but "...1 million have watched the tik tok video of woman throwing pie at mcdonalds..."

[rownesheck]

15. Maybe Newsweek

should change it's name to Newsweak.

B'dum tish!

I'll see myself out.