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The Real Reason Us News Is Going Monthly

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Nov 16 2008 7:19pm EDT

The REAL Reason 'U.S. News' Is Going Monthly

It might be because of columnist and Sarah Palin apologist Michael Barone -- at least in the mind of Frank Rich.

Barone writes for U.S. News & World Report, where his 2008 analyses included keepers like "Just Call Her Sarah 'Delano' Palin." Just call it coincidence, but on Election Day, word spread that the once-weekly U.S. News was downsizing to a monthly -- a step closer to the fate of Literary Digest, the weekly magazine that vanished two years after its straw poll predicted an Alf Landon landslide over Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936.
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