Whatever your notion of religion in the public square, the fact is that the U.S. remains a country with far-majority Christian religious identification.
You'd think Meacham would respond to declining business by shoring up Newsweek's objective news reporting and curtailing a bit of the excessive editorializing Newsweek frequently indulges in.
Newsweek's strategy in the midst of all its financial decline is to double and triple the amount of editorializing, cast aside all semblance of "news" in favor of long, liberal essays by self-impressed Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and his international editor Fareed Zakaria. Is that really a business solution, or is it the captains performing violin solos on the deck of the Titanic?Meacham seems not to be content playing his Left Wing violin for the enjoyment of Liberals. Rather he appears determined to chase down those who least appreciate his music.
As Bozell notes, it's difficult to see how ridiculing the religion of so many of its readers is an effective strategy for winning any of them back:
One has to wonder whether Newsweek's financial gurus really think it's a smart business strategy to greet the Easter season with funerals for "Christian America," and greet the Christmas season by making the "religious case for gay marriage"? (That's not to mention all the reverent Obama worship in between.)As illogical as insulting your customers may seem, I think Newsweek -- like the other fast-fading MSM news organizations -- sees the New Media 'writing on the wall' and understands its days are numbered. And yet as their circulation and revenue sink further south, they are choosing to go down 'all guns blazing' rather than peacefully fade into the dustbin of media history.
As Bob McCarty points out over at NowPublic, maybe the media should ruminate over the "End of Objective Journalism".
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