NYT: THREATENED BY THE INTERNET, TIME MAGAZINE SLIMS DOWN (MEDIA DEATH WATCH)

Drudge Report ^ | 01.07.07 | CAWats

[SevenofNine]

Come think Time Magazine for the moment

We are FR we are Freeper we are Borg of the internet

Resistence is futile you would be assilmate

Yeah that make you think look what happen to Dan Rather

[monkapotamus]

[Darkwolf377]

I'm too young (41) to be nostalgic for the Saturday Evening Post, and the OLD New Yorker, but...I am. I have idle fantasies of idle Satruday afternoons-into-evenings reading thick magazines with long, well-researched, well-written articles, not the biased thin gruel magazines have these days.

I sometimes come across old "grown-up" magazines and wish I had such things to read now that I'm middle-aged.

[RobbyS]

How the world is changing.

[Plutarch]

Link to NYT Story:

Slimmer Time in the Age of the Internet

It has nothing to do with their rampaging NYT-style bias, oh no. You see it is the internet.

[RobbyS]

The Economist still has pretty good stuff.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Now it's just a weird seditious little pamphlet...
Apt, pithy and urbane. You should edit the whole roll.

[Buddy B]

More illustrations for those in the USA that have not learned to read. That's the way to go...just make it a "news" comic book.

[nutmeg]

ping!

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[Lancey Howard]

[WorkingClassFilth]

They already have a comic strip with a predictable leftist story line. The story line is coarse and blunt and the art is clumsy and grotesque. If I lived in NYC and five lines a night, I might think it's insightful and hip.

Too bad I live in the hinterlands. I find it painful and less than absorbent.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Oops. Should read: "If I lived in NYC and did five lines a night, I might think it's insightful and hip."

[BIGLOOK]

[tanuki]

That is so cool!

[Seaplaner]

Carr explains: 'A tremendous amount of effort has been expended on TIME's new Web site, which makes its debut Monday."

And this, dear friends, is the truly funny part.

Instead of refining their craft in print media (fairness and balance might help), Time chooses to compete in the blogosphere, where they have absolutely nothing to offer that isn't available at a trillion other sites.

Tenaciously clinging to the anchor of Marxist journalism, Time probably wonders why it is sinking so quickly into the sea of oblivion.

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[Petronski]

Kaput.


Very nice.

[Earthdweller]

"I still remember when Time was a slightly more conservative weekly compared to Newsweek."

"Now it's just a weird seditious little pamphlet...."

[cowtowney]

"I believe that getting the magazine on newsstands on Friday helps us set the news agenda," explained Richard Stengel, the managing editor.

"Set the agenda"?

Say what? First, somebody has to read it...then they have to respect it...then....oh never mind.

[Earthdweller]

Slimmer Time in the Age of the Internet

"It has nothing to do with their rampaging NYT-style bias, oh no. You see it is the internet."

[Eddie01]

...and isn't news with an agenda called marketing?