But what the hell is Howie Kurtz talking about?
In an article on the on-going belt-tightening at the big news weeklies, I find this graf …
The rival editors [of Time and Newsweek] are turning out weeklies that are smaller, more serious, more opinionated and, though they are loath to admit it, more liberal. They are pursuing a more elite audience, in print and on the Web, abandoning the old Henry Luce notion of catering to the masses. It is nothing less than a survival strategy.
The evidence of this is Joe Klein and Jon Alter. And the fact that Time just ran a column by Jeffrey Sachs. Even set aside the dubious case that the big weeklies have been liberal at any time in the recent past, the crisis of print journalism is making them more liberal?
