My generous nature has bestowed upon me a year's subscription to Newsweek magazine; or in other words, Chicago Public Radio gifted me the subscription in thanks for my monetary support.
I've been the ungrateful recipient of this subscription once before under the exact same circumstances. I found the magazine insulting for the amount of fluff and its high school level writing style.
This time around the magazine has devolved even further. Every single article, column, page is consumed with statistics to the point of meaninglessness. Every point made in the magazine begs a question. It's a mere headache to read.
There's a piece in the current edition about Immigration and how some Somalians saved a dying Maine mill town. What the article doesn't explain is exactly what these new immigrants are doing there. There's talk of new Halal grocery stores, African clothing stores and things like that. But a community doesn't survive on providing the basics - there has to be some other means of employment to keep those retail stores going. Did the Somalians take over the mill? I guess I'd just rather read an in depth article than a one page wonder story.
Anyway I'm addicted to reading magazines that show up in the house, so I'm troubled as to what I should do at this point to avoid a weekly headache. I might have to get a puppy or a bird.
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i think thats the way all newsweek subscriptions are acquired now a days. we got ours the same way. we we're still waiting for a cover that doesnt have obama on it. even with fairly unrelated headlines they seem to always figure out how to put obama on the front. it's just weird.
Here you go.
Beautiful. I remember the article. Not only is the New Yorker article three years old, Newsweek borrowed the same photo --so they ran a three year old photograph...again I give you, the weak in news.
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