Growing up, my grandparents and parents all read Newsweek. So I read Newsweek, and picked up my own subscription when I graduated from college in the early 90s.
By the mid ‘90s, I noticed I was frequently getting interested in a Time magazine article when I saw issues in doctors’ offices, coffeeshops, etc., so I decided to pick up a subscription to Time as well.
When Newsweek went out of print (to digital-only) in 2012, I dropped my subscription to that, but kept my subscription to Time going, and I actually still have a subscription to Time.
I’ve noticed in recent years, though, that I don’t read it like I used to. I now get most of my news from online subscriptions to the New York Times and the Washington Post. In fact, many of my issues of Time now seem to pile up unread until I toss them into the recycling bin.
I subscribe and have off and on for years. I had both Time and Newsweek for a while.
Now I find it less important than it was in the 90s when I first started reading it. There will be entire issues where it’s old news before I even receive it (my mail is inconsistent, and that does not help), much less get around to reading it. So I prefer the in-depth pieces that are timely news much more.
I think I’m supposed to get it Friday. But sometimes it doesn’t come till Monday, Tuesday if it’s a three-day weekend. If I’m still working on last week’s issue or another magazine, I might not get to it until the next new one comes. It’s kind of frustrating, but not necessarily Time’s fault, assuming they print and mail it out on time. And I guess I could read a digital subscription.
Sometimes I just flip through the pages going “old news, old news, review for a play in a city I don’t even live in, old news.” Sometimes I read every single word of every article. It’s a lot more hit and miss than it used to be.
Again, so what? The Republican Establishment mostly hated Nixon in the early 60s. Luce was speaking their language.
Or is your problem that you do not believe that the Republican Establishment was lukewarm for Nixon in 1960? If that’s the case, look into it. They tried to dump him as VP in 1956. Eisenhower couldn’t stand him. He only got the nomination in 1960 for exactly the same reason George H. W. Bush did in 1988: the president he sat under. Every sane Republican hated Nixon throughout his career; he was that kind of guy. By 1972 they had all been kicked out of the party. You can’t possibly compare the two eras.
Like spoons I grew up reading it in a household that subscribed; a few days ago when a documentary on the Manson murders was showing, I remembered reading about it with horror and fascination in Time when I was 9. As teens, my sister and I would be told to read certain articles, but when a 1979 cover story about gay couples appeared, my father forbade us to read it–so of course we did.
As an older teen I started to enjoy the essays on the last page, especially by Lance Morrow and Roger Rosenblatt. I must have been around 22 when a couple of Rosenblatt’s essays moved me to write him a letter of appreciation, and he wrote back with a friendly reply–I’m still pleased at the memory.
Nowadays the only place I see it is in the doctor’s office and, like Mean Mr. Mustard I find it skeletal, a shadow of its former self. chappachula, interesting story about McCain; it makes me realize that as a young person I saw it as a window into the adult world.