It was actually worth paying for. And you couldn’t just go and access it online, because “online“ didn’t really exist. It wasn’t “a thing“. Not yet. If you wanted to carry around a copy of those articles in your pocket, you needed to buy a magazine. And people did exactly that. Newsweek, specifically, was in print for 80 years.
I do. Back in the 90s, I actually had a subscription to their thing they called a “magazine“. It was made of paper!
… And written by humans. Those were the days.
And people paid for it…
It was actually worth paying for. And you couldn’t just go and access it online, because “online“ didn’t really exist. It wasn’t “a thing“. Not yet. If you wanted to carry around a copy of those articles in your pocket, you needed to buy a magazine. And people did exactly that. Newsweek, specifically, was in print for 80 years.