Not His Day

From an article in today's Wall Street Journal on the fate of Newsweek, where over 100 editors and journalists (20 percent of staff) just took buyouts:

At a recent speech at Columbia University, (Newsweek editor Jon) Meacham delivered a blistering response after he asked who reads Newsweek and none of the 100-odd students in attendance raised their hands.

"It's an incredible frustration that I've got some of the most decent, hard-working, honest, passionate, straight-shooting, non-ideological people who just want to tell the damn truth, and how to get this past this image that we're just middlebrow, you know, a magazine that your grandparents get, or something, that's the challenge," Mr. Meacham said. "And I just don't know how to do it, so if you've got any ideas, tell me."