Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The newsweeklies haven’t been a factor for news in 30 years.

Time is the exception.

Newsweek sold out to right-wing loons years ago. It’s just a nameplate now masquerading as its former self.

US News and World Report just does rankings. And even those don’t have any real impact.

They absolutely do have real impact. Outsized impact.

Detrimental impact.

Anonymous wrote:The newsweeklies haven’t been a factor for news in 30 years.

Time is the exception.

Newsweek sold out to right-wing loons years ago. It’s just a nameplate now masquerading as its former self.

US News and World Report just does rankings. And even those don’t have any real impact.

They absolutely do have real impact. Outsized impact.

The newsweeklies haven’t been a factor for news in 30 years.

Time is the exception.

Newsweek sold out to right-wing loons years ago. It’s just a nameplate now masquerading as its former self.

US News and World Report just does rankings. And even those don’t have any real impact.

I check out USN & World Report and NICHE for initial reference as well as a few other major specific references.
Then go into more in depth research for each college

When I was in middle school, US News was a weekly magazine just like Time used to be.

Haven't they shifted completely to just ranking things? Do they even print a news magazine anymore?

No, but I read it for the world report.

Anonymous wrote:And because the metrics they use are the ones academia, collectively, have decided matter.

This is something that I think people really don't appreciate enough. If you think suburban wine moms in Westchester and Marin County and Fairfax are overly obsessive about the US News rankings, you should spend some time with professors and administrators at any of the top 50-or-so universities in the country.

Anonymous wrote:And because the metrics they use are the ones academia, collectively, have decided matter.

+1.

And because the metrics they use are the ones academia, collectively, have decided matter.

Because they were the first.

I do read US News and World Report for news.

Yea, OP, you're trying to troll. US News shifted its focus exclusively to rankings many years ago.

UVA is a top 25 school!

Didn't they stop being a news magazine years and years ago? I remember it being on the news stand with Time back when I was a kid and doing current events assignments. I don't think I've seen it as an actual magazine as an adult.

Who said it’s powerful?

I bet not many. so why is their college ranking so powerful?