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I canceled mine too!
Its not that great of a magazine - articles are not interesting, generally speaking - plus the whole made up story, resulting in the killing of 17 people. I canceled my subscription (I had a 5 year) and got my check back of $108. Goodbye Weeknews... I mean Newsweek...

An anti-american liberal elite publication
The people who publish this magazine should be in jail.The
elite liberals behind this magazine have admitted to publishing
false stories about our troops in cuba doing bad things to
arab books.The editors (to the top) need
to go in the same way that all the people at CBS had to go when
they published false stories about our president and tried to
throw the election to the liberals.

The important mission of bringing freedom and american values
to afghanistan is one we cannot allow anti-american liberal
publications to sabotage.Authors like David Horowitz have
explained how liberals are the silent footsoldiers of terror
in partnership with the terrorists (see his book: unholy
allance: radical islam and the american left).The connections
between the liberal elite media and the american left are
already well known.

The only good thing to come out of all this is that afghanistan
showed how far they have come in learning freedom.The
terrorists attempted to take over the government and they were
stopped in their tracks by Afghans who love their country and
love freedom.

This needs to be investigated by congress and the justice
department.Our leaders need to dig into the connections
between the elite media, liberal front organizations and
the terrorists in afghanistan.The propoganda in newsweek
and the attempt to overthrow freedom in Afghanistan were far
too well coordinated to be coincidence.

Freedom of the press is exatly that:freedom.Our constitution
and founding fathers never intended for freedom to turn into
a government-backed right to lie in a magazine about US troops
and to give aid to the enemies of freedom in afghanistan.Our
leaders must stop this treasonous nonsense now.

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Subscribed for a year...very disappointed
I got a free subscription to ET by using my frequent flier miles.When I read through my first issue, I was more than a little disappointed.The cover stories often dealt with movies that wouldn't open for a year, and were mostly hype to begin with.A few of the cover stories I remember (The Village, Van Helsing) covered two of the worst movies of the year, certainly not worthy of a cover story.The weekly reviews of the movies were pretty good, but the music reviews were terrible.I have quite an extensive music collection and familiarity, however, the albums reviewed were often from artists I'd never heard of while larger, more established artists were completely ignored.This is simply unacceptable.ET should be focused on the mainstream.Let Rolling Stone and other "music" magazines focus on the obscure bands.The articles and interviews in ET are terrible at best.Often, a "feature" interview consists of a celebrity rambling on about something stupid.And the filler material in the first half of the magazine (The Hot List, etc.) isn't fit for tabloids.In the year that I subscribed to the magazine, I can only think of one or two good articles that I read in the magazine. The addition of Stephen King as a columnnist helped, but even his columns seemed off-base most of the time, like he didn't have the guidance of an editor, but was simply given an open forum instead.ET is very disappointing.They simply ride each fad or popular celebrity until it stops moving, and then hop on to the next one.The magazine is hardly journalism.It's more like a high school gossip forum of sorts, where people talk about people rather than ideas and artistic achievements.Sad.

The Best Entertainment Magazine Out There
If you're looking for a magazine that focuses on all aspects of the entertainment industry, look no further than this magazine.

I signed up for Entertainment Weekly as a charter subscriber back in 1990. I was looking for an alternative to Rolling Stone, something that focused exclusively on entertainment, and I found it with this magazine. I was hooked from the first issue and I've been a subscriber ever since.The funny thing is that I tend to keep my past issues. And as you can guess, on a weekly basis, they tend to take up space quickly!But I actually do find myself going back and referring to past issues.

Each issue is broken down into specific sections: Television, DVDs, Movies, Music, Books, etc., with fairly good commentary in each section. They rate the items reviewed on a grading scale of A to F, and often provide excellent, well thought out reviews. Yes, you're going to get latest fads (the Britney's and the Usher's) on the cover - but you'll also see established performers like Harrison Ford, Kenneth Branagh, Thomas Wolfe, and Tom Hanks on the cover as well. They cover the good, the bad, and everything else in between.If it's entertainment oriented, you'll find it here.

I especially like their annual movie and TV perview issues. ou get a great comprehensive overview of the upcoming TV season as well as almost every movie due to hit the screen, month by month.

While I really like the magazine overall, there are a few items I wish would change. The layout has gotten a little sloppy and hard to read over the past two years. Lots of colors mixed with different texts make it hard to focus. Another item is that they occassionally revise their reviews. For instance, Britney Spears's "Crossroads" movie received a B+. Once it came out on DVD, they revised their rating to a C. At least they come clean and state why they changed the rating in the DVD review. The last thing I've noticed is that they've gotten a little soft as far as their reviews go. I think they may have grown to the point where they don't want to offend any celebrities, so their interviews take a softer edge.

With Entertainment Weekly, you get what the magazine's name promises: a quality product covering all media outlets, delivered on a weekly basis.Subscribe to it and you'll be in the know as far as entertainment is concerned.

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Where's The News?
When I initally subscribed to USN&WR, I found it to be a well-written news weekly. However, recently, the publishers/editors changed the format of the magazine. Rather than devoting the magazine to delivering news, they have made nearly every issues consist of a "special report" with news filling out what remains ofthe magazine.

These "special reports" range from ranking America's Best Hospitals to a report on ocean ecosystems. The chance that even the slimmest of majorities of these reports will hold your interest is slim. You'd be better off with a subscription to a traditional newspaper, like the Wall Street Journal.

The best in the U.S., but it can be better
This is the best weekly news magazine in the U.S., but only because the competition is so weak, and it could be so much better. First, it covers mostly headline stories; second, it emphasizes U.S. news and carries only token amounts of world news; third, it presents too many "special reports" and feature articles, at the expense of news reporting. On the plus side, the writing is generally clear, informative, and balanced. The only reason I subscribe to The Economist, rather than to U.S. News & World Report, is because I want to know what's going on in the whole world. If U.S. News can give just half of their attention to the other ninety-five percent of the world, I will switch subscriptions in a heartbeat.

The Best News Weekly, Period.
I received "U.S. News" as a gift subscription from a friend who knows me well. I was initially suspicious of a mainstream weekly news magazine, as most of them seem to be stilted leftist rags bent on exploiting suffering people to sell copies. I couldn't have been more wrong about "U.S. News". It is a treasure of unbiased, even-handed, and authoritative reporting and editorials. I had previously read "Newsweek" and "Time", and found them to be insufferably biased (especially "Time") and written at the level of a sixth grader in the case of "Time" or a ninth grader in the case of "Newsweek". Yes, each of those two occasionally produces informative and important articles, but with no regularity or predictability.

"U.S. News" is not glitzy or exciting to read, but what it lacks in glamour it makes up tenfold in quality, authoritative reporting of truly significant stories. It caters to an educated audience, but it is always careful to be concise, yet factually, logically, and analytically detailed in all content. Neither politically correct, nor offensive, the editorial tone is truly that of a tolerant, fair, and balanced publication, while simultaneously keeping highbrow pretensions in check (which is the biggest fault of "The Economist") and never condescending to the readers.

The editors of "U.S. News" do a fabulous job of honesty. Editor-In-Chief Mortimer Zuckerman frequently closes the magazine with the last page. Always balanced, his commentary is always well reasoned and worth reading even when you disagree with him. (For a perfect example of balance look to his editorial on Clinton's autobiography, "Life in the Rearview Mirror", July 12, 2004.) Michael Barone is another columnist always worth reading. His political and social commentaries are both insightful and thought-provoking. I am looking forward to reading his new book. Finally, my favorite of the routine contributors is John Leo. Leo's column, "On Society" is the best analysis of America with both faults and greatness deftly dealt with in some of the most beautiful prose ever written in an editorial column. I can't tell you how many of Leo's columns I have cut out, saved, and re-read over the years. He is a truly inspired thinker and writer.

Certainly there are faults in any magazine with the breadth and depth of coverage that "U.S. News" has, but all the same, it is the one source of news about current events that I find trustworthy above all others.

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