But it also points to a larger crisis in journalism itself: The rise of the zombie publication, whose former legitimacy is used to launder extreme and conspiratorial ideas. There are the usual issues: a sharp decline in print subscribers, Google and Facebook, the difficulty of running a mass-market general interest news magazine in an age of hyperpartisanship. Its clickbait-heavy approach, aimed at gaming search engines, has declined since it was spun off from parent company IBT Media in But it remains a publication that privileges the interests of Google over those of its hypothetical readers.
It has attempted to rebuild some of its credibility post-IBT by partnering with the Poynter Institute, but it still has a distinctly seamy vibe. Meanwhile, the opinion section is brimming with right-wing columnists, who range from the barely credible to the foaming at the mouth. Farage and Gingrich are regulars, as is Alan Dershowitz.
We bitched a lot but loved the place. Journalists are sometimes compared to the horses in Black Beauty —all we want is a nice master, a little hay to lie down on, and a sugar cube once in a while. We got that and a lot more from Katharine Graham, now immortalized by Meryl Streep in the film The Post , who until her death in was the best proprietor imaginable.
While more publicly identified with The Washington Post , she would hold monthly editorial lunches at our plush headquarters at Madison Avenue and later W. Dinosaurs still roamed the media earth, and the Grahams were satisfied with modest profits at best.
And we were a distant number two, well ahead of U. Now that magazine is perilously thin and was recently sold. Last week, workers replaced the Time Inc sign outside its downtown Manhattan headquarters with Meredith, an Iowa-based company with little interest in news.
In the rest of the country, news-starved subscribers, unsatisfied by a limp local paper and a half hour of John Chancellor, ripped through every issue, happy to have a cogent way of catching up on everything they had missed during the previous week.
Of course technology—first television, then the internet—changed that habit. A tardy summary of the news was no longer as useful. And with the advent of a hour news cycle a decade ago, online newspapers, smaller magazines, and cable-news networks began to eat our analytical lunch.
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