Posted on 01/20/2009 2:28:36 PM PST by tom h
NEW YORK -- When Rick Stengel joined Time in 1981, every story in progress filled a thick binder -- the reporter's version, the editor's rewritten version, the top editors' version, the fact-checked version -- that would be unimaginable in today's cut-to-the-bone corporate culture.
Many of the recently laid-off staffers, Stengel says, "were people whose jobs really didn't exist anymore."
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Morale in both shops has been devastated as staffers complain about a blurred identity, lack of direction, management snafus and outsourcing to big-name writers that has left them wondering if reporters still have much of a role.
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Time has reduced the circulation guaranteed to advertisers from 4.1 million to 3.25 million. Newsweek has cut back from 3.1 million to 2.6 million and is mulling further reductions. U.S. News & World Report essentially left the field this month, becoming a Web site with monthly editions on consumer issues. ...
Both magazines have moved away from the health and pop culture covers that were so prevalent in the past.
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The magazines are facing the same problems as every other part of the news business: declining revenues, shrinking audiences and a speeded-up digital culture that makes them seem slow. ...
The cutbacks are taking their toll in more ways than one. As several key women have left Time, nearly all the top editors are now male, prompting considerable internal grumbling. Stengel acknowledges the criticism, saying, "I would love to rectify that."
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
He referred to it as a "sacred oath," by the way. Let's see what happens when it's revealed that he is not a natural born citizen. How sacred does he really consider that oath?
Just hold on a little bit longer, your government bailout is on the way.
Wow...the Post actually admitting Time and Newsweek (owned by the Post) are liberal rags.
Nothing special. It’s like one mental patient calling another mental patient insane.
Off topic a little but anyone else notice this site being slow to respond today? Must be overload. Hope it picks up tomorrow. Taking about 3 times as long to post.
Down to 4 pages now?
I was offered TIME for a year at $7.50 and said no. If they offered it to me for free I’d also say no. Why would I need to support a rag that specializes in hating people like myyself?
What if we find out he’s not even a US citizen at all? What then?
They never straddled the center, unless one thinks that the Clintons are right of center.
I used to at least browse these mags every week and occasionally buy them. I rarely bother now -- they're basically slightly more conservative than the neo-Stalinist "The Nation". Other than Newsweek's cover story on William F Buckley's death, I haven't had any desire to buy a copy in years.
Happy Days!
Time just had its 17th (SEVENTEENTH) heroic cover of Obama.
Seriously, who the hell reads these old news dead tree magazine? Buh bye.
Times, Newsweek etc. factchecking? What in hell is that? We don’ need no steeenking fact checking! Opinion (liberal at that) is all we need or deserve!
So many people watching streaming video today is jamming up the net. It’s on some tech IRC chat boards and a couple folks have real-time traffic monitoring going. The traffic is really high right now. Probably a lot of blog andf forum traffic going too.
If there was anyone who still did so beforehand, when a publication prints an essay entitled “How To Fix The World,” then it obviously can’t be taken seriously.
Time and Newsweek can go out of business, for all I care.
Uh huh. 90% liberal and 100% elitist. Those of us who go to church instead, disdain newspapers for bias, and can't afford hardcover books are, presumably, the lumpenproletariat crying out for guidance. I wish this clown luck with his market share - he's going to need it.
Stengel, who worked for Bill Bradley's Democratic presidential campaign, says he has tried conservative columnists -- including Bill Kristol, who left -- but has not come up with a star.
Meaning that yeah, the mag is 100% liberal but those conservatives just aren't bankable. Fact is he could find better columnists than his on nearly every FR thread. He just isn't looking very hard.
“Time just had its 17th (SEVENTEENTH) heroic cover of Obama.”
Neewsweek is no better. Recently, while waiting for my dentist appointment to start, I thumbed through a few issues. 5 of the six covers sitting in front of me had Obama on the cover, and the sixth had Michelle. I know Obama is big news to everyone, conservative and lib alike. but these people really live in their own little world. There’s no way even an admittedly partisan mag like National Review would bother putting, I don’t know, Bush or Palin on its cover more than a few times a year.
IF we find out he isn't a U.S. citizen then I would have to think that would be considered fraud.
But what do I know.
Never fear. With a know-nothing Democrat in the White House, professional lying is a short-term growth industry.
He has a passport so we know he’s a citizen.
The issue is not dead, you know. The SCOTUS sent the latest lawsuit back to the Federal District court, rather than dismissing it, which means that it might have merit, but that the District Court needs to rule on it, yea or nay.
Yes, this is passing the buck but the last review was merely a week ago and the response, if the SCOTUS forbade Obama from taking the oath today without a BC, would have been nuclear. Imagine riots in the streets 50 times worse than anything ever happening before. Imagine embassies in Africa and Europe being burned down.
It might actually be a good thing to let the matter work its way up through the courts, slowly getting more publicity, even from the MSM, until the nation collectively asks the basic question of Obama — just produce the birth certificate!
Three outcomes, then. First, he’s been holding it back all this time so as to destroy the opponents pursuing the matter. Low probability. Second, his Hawaiian friends falsify a BC. It would be easy to validate this. Third, he comes clean about the circumstances of his birth. Then, there is a hue and cry for him to resign, or perhaps the SCOTUS orders that he is not President. There will be a huge reaction, but by this time (June? later?) much of the nation will accept the fact that he is a liar and a deceiver, much better than they would have late last week.
All we can do is hope, my friend, that Berg does not give up.
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