Newsweek formed me (sort of)

You know that Newsweek is ending its print edition. This was long in the coming. What I find interesting is that apparently its circulation peaked in 1991, at 3.3 million. It declined to 3.1 million in 2007, and literally cratered over the past 5 years to 1.5 million! Thinking back to my own past I remember my interest in Newsweek's cartoons, as well as the in-class discussion triggered by the latest issue of Time. There was a time when these were relevant publications. But that ended in 1995, with the rise of the internet. For years the weeklies still maintained the illusion of relevance, but I think they were living on borrowed time. People went through the motions because they always had. After all, the cover of Time was important, everyone knew it. Until no one did. The collapse in circulation is just a reflection of the fact that this emperor had long ago shed its clothes.