New Times Magazine, 1973-1979.

New Times magazine was founded and published out of New York by George A. Hirsch, a Princeton-Harvard man who got his start in journalism at Time-Life International. Hirsch also published "New York" magazine and "The Runner." New Times held its own during that brief window of serious journalism in America between Watergate and the Reagan years. At this time there were several Congressional committees investigating sinister CIA misdeeds, revelations of political spying against 1960s activists by the police, military, and FBI, the final collapse of our Vietnam adventure, and a new JFK assassination investigation. All this was standard fare in the glossy pages of the biweekly New Times.

By 1980 the U.S. was helpless in Iran and the Soviets were all over Afghanistan. Our defense build-up was underway and the media pundits were weary of 1970s revelations. New Times apparently realized that truth no longer attracted advertising, and preferred to fold rather than trim their budget. Other magazines such as Penthouse and Playboy, which frequently ran serious investigative pieces during the 1970s, also began having second thoughts. (If you don't think this is a loss, then tune in the "information superhighway" of the future, with its 500 cable TV channels. It sounds nice until you realize that today's "infotainment" content will likely be diluted by a corresponding factor, turning our critical capacity into instant mush.)

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