Noemie Emery: When did Newsweek stop doing news?

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How do you solve a problem like Newsweek? Who knows?

Back in May, bleeding money, it decided to slice its base rate in half, stop being a newsmagazine run for the general public and try being, well, “a serious magazine” for an “elite” (i.e., liberal) audience that had a more refined eye than the general public, switching, in their favorite metaphor, from the beer track to wine.

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