[The editor of Newsweek]… ignored the truth that the old newsmagazine editors lived by: journalists who write to satisfy people like themselves will soon run out of readers. The magazine that lies dying in Don Graham\u2019s arms violated this rule week by week.<\/p>\n
To cite one obvious example: newsweeklies annually marked Christian holidays with a cover story on a religious theme, always respectful and sometimes celebratory in tone. I\u2019m sure it was a strain, an exercise in self-denial; few journalists are religious in any conventional sense. The new Newsweek, by contrast, published holiday issues that any good secular journalist would like to read. One issue near Christmas offered a long and fallacious cover story on \u201cThe Religious Case for Gay Marriage.\u201d\u009d Easter came and the magazine feted \u201cThe End of Christian America.\u201d\u009d Pieces like this weren\u2019t so much a challenge to traditionally religious readers as a declaration of war. Why not just put a bullet in the Easter Bunny while you\u2019re at it?<\/p>\n