EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Newsweek Editors Blast Exec to His Face: ‘What You’re Doing Is Bulls**t. You Don’t Understand Journalism.’
It’s a nice echo of the quote then-editor Jon Meacham gave to then-Post media columnist Howard Kurtz in 2008, when the Washington Post first decided to radicalize the publication and shrink its subscriber base, at the beginning of the magazine’s journey to its now-cadaverous state:
Jon Meacham admits it is hard to explain, even to his own people, why chopping Newsweek’s circulation in half is a good thing.
“It’s hugely counterintuitive,” the magazine’s editor says. “The staff doesn’t understand it.”
Some things never change.