U.S. News & World Report lost me with the butt-ugly redesign that marked its shift from weekly to biweekly. It apparently lost most of its readers at it went totally online.

Now Newsweek follows with a similarly bad transition. It now looks like an advertising supplement to a real magazine one assumes it should be attached to. I simply do not get the new look or approach, and think it will fail. It reminds me too much of The New Republic, which just became a newsletter of columns and nothing else. Now Newsweek is about a three-minute scan for me. If there's anything good, someone will send a link to me anyway, so I can't see myself renewing.

Meanwhile, The Economist continues to rock. BusinessWeek still seems worthwhile. Time . . . well, it's still a news magazine at least.

I find myself slimming down . . . and increasingly relying on online sources.

Two things I will not give up in paper for now: NYT and WSJ. WaPo may go.