Newsweek is hardly left wing. I suppose any outlet that doesn't trumpet right wing propaganda according to the Fox and Limbaugh theme songs is considered left wing. Advertising has little do with the quality of a publication. Often intense advertising translates into the publication becoming a corporate sellout anyway. Newspaper and magazine subscriptions are unfortunately declining across the board. Americans are increasingly ignorant, illiterate, xenophobic and misinformed because many folks rarely read anything of value. If they do read it is tabloids or rapture books. It makes it all too easy for the likes of Bush & Cheney and their ilk to run roughshod over the constitution, laws and treaties, conduct an illegal war and rob the treasury without almost no scrutiny from mainstream media.