Populist magazine The Week has sprung up with a circulation of 500,000 — no small feat in a climate where newsweeklies like Time and Newsweek continue to see their numbers slide. Haven’t picked The Week up recently? You’ll appreciate its “front of the book of the Economist” approach, where the week’s biggest news items from around the world get summarized into bite size pieces, leaving you significantly more worldly after flipping through its pages. Perhaps you also forgot who’s running the magazine: Felix Dennis, of that little magazine that refused to grow up, Maxim.
So how come this magazine is such a breakout hit, while its brethren are fighting for oxygen? Because Dennis & Co. have thrown journalistic principles in the crapper!
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