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** In a fictional example, on ''[[30 Rock]]'', Jack Donaghy once commented that ''Jet'' was originally a magazine for airplane owners, and wonders how the editors could have made that drastic a change.
* ''Newsweek'', once situated just behind ''Time'' as one of America's most respected newsmagazines, has fallen far from its once-lofty perch, causing detractors to nickname it "News''weak''". The decay began once the Washington Post Company (which owned ''Newsweek'' from 1961 until 2010) bought ''[http://www.slate.com/ Slate]'' from Microsoft in 2004, with staff writers like Daniel Gross and Dahlia Lithwick brought over from the site and the magazine starting to take on its style. Coverage drastically shifted away from firsthand and secondhand information gathering and towards opinion pieces, prompting one letter in the Feedback column to ask, "Where's the news?"
: After a few years of rapidly shrinking circulation, combined with growing indifference for news magazines in general, ''Newsweek'' was sold to the 90-year-old founder of a speaker company, who paid a pittance of $1 plus debt for the title. Soon after, it merged with ''The Daily Beast'', the current pet project of bouncer-around and failed CNBC talk show host Tina Brown, which is considered [[
: Since then, it's devoted covers to stuff like the trashy erotica novel ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey]]'', [[Fan Service]]-y pictures of [[Sarah Palin]] in [http://www.yenra.com/wiki/images/Sarah-palin-newsweek-cover.jpg form-fitting workout gear], and sensationalistic headlines asking [https://web.archive.org/web/20120525105458/http://www.akawilliam.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/newsweek_racist_baby-226x300.jpg "is your baby racist?"] They've also run [http://www.newsweek.com/id/236999 an inflammatory article] claiming that openly gay actors like [[Will and Grace|Sean Hayes]] and [[Glee|Jonathan Groff]] come off as self-hating, artificial and too gay in straight roles, which sparked massive backlash from Ryan Murphy, [[Kristin Chenoweth]] and other supporters of the LGBT community.
** The Magazine Decay of both ''[[Time Magazine|Time]]'' and ''[[Newsweek]]'' is made all the more ironic with the success in the past two decades of ''[[The Economist]]'', which so far [[Averted Trope|averts]] this trope pretty hard.
* ''[http://www.listener.co.nz The New Zealand Listener]'', since Pamela Stirling took over as editor in 2004. Its focus on serious current affairs was diluted in favour of an increased consumerist-lifestyle approach.
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