[Cronos]

Old article, but interesting

[Niuhuru]

“the older and serious brother of People magazine”

Indeed. Along with Newsweek.

All those stupid celebs like Angelina are considered among the most influential people in the world shows where Time magazine’s priorities are.

[Deetes]

It’s 10:06 Alaskan time .

[truthguy]

Yes it's an old article but revelent. Both Time and Newsweek (some say Newsweak) are dinosaurs. I doubt either will be in business in 5 years. The people in charge will blame the Internet but I think it's greater than that. I think it's content.

Both of these weekly magazines have terrible and biased reporting. Their editorials are also terrible. I'll admit to reading them because we get them at work. I wouldn't buy either one even if they charged 25 cent a copy (if that was possible). They are essentially extensions of the Democratic Party. They (the reporters and editors) are typical upper West Side or Beltway liberals and are insulated and isolated in the little world they live in. They are ideologues so they will have no problem driving the company into bankruptcy. That's less important than towing the liberal/leftist line. I'll be glad when they both go out of business.

[sinanju]

You have to read the whole thing to find the kicker.

Basically 90% of the text is a conservative-themed lead up to the statement that:

“The hope is that the next person in the White House after 2008 will be more inclined to work together with the rest of the world in trying to defuse global military tensions, especially in the Middle East and continue the process of economic globalization.

But the growing anti-globalization sentiment and anti-immigration mood in the United States in the form of political pressure in support of protectionism and isolationism suggest that the adjusting of US interests and policies to the changing realities of weakening American economic and military power will not be easy.”

Our economic problems and the fact that Wall Street is no longer the financial center of the universe is precisely because WE are no longer following the liberal economic model. As for our military commitments, they are another matter entirely.

Very sneaky.

[the invisib1e hand]

wait, i don't get it. because time sucks, America is losing it's power? America's power is defined by it's elite media?

well, perhaps so. Maybe, though, America's citizens will wake the hell up and be America's citizens, like the founders intended for them to be.

[Niuhuru]

Maybe if we didn’t tear down our business people and encourage celebs to get involved in foreign policy we wouldn’t be in this fix. I don’t think the Chinese elite turn to Jet Li for advice on how to deal with Taiwan.

If they did though, I would be sure to listen... :)

[swarthyguy]

Going thru the attic a while back, I came across some copies of Time, one a 1976 BiCentennial issue.

Amazing to see the dumbdown process, I guess it’s written at below the tenth grade level now, I forget the exact standards they used then.

However, in information content, it mirrored the Economist.

Now, it’s simply a People with a couple of articles about foreign events. They have had good articles about Iraq and stuff, but in terms of the old Gold Standard of informing you about the general state of the world, a miserable failure.