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How Is It 'News' for Time to Hype 'Extreme Militias' In the Last Weeks of a Campaign?
newsbusters.org ^ | October 11, 2010 | Tim Graham

Posted on 10/11/2010 11:31:01 AM PDT by matt1234

Time magazine's news judgment is truly puzzling. With just weeks to go before a crucial midterm election, their cover story package is ten pages stuffed with “The Secret World of Extreme Militias.” Voters are poised to sweep a pile of Democrats out of office from coast to coast, and they're camped in Zanesville, Ohio with a right-wing militia that claims 300 members as the nation's number one news story? (Katie Couric tweeted on Wednesday that she was eagerly reading it.)

Time editor Richard Stengel announced they gave new hire Barton Gellman six months in the field chasing the whisper of a possibility that some new Timothy McVeigh might emerge and vindicate this bizarre investment of effort. Just weeks after they asked on the cover if America was Islamophobic, it's clear that once again, Obama's sinking popularity reveals an ugly America that can't accept the gift they elected.

While Gellman opened with the usual hackneyed portrait of a Midwestern militia on wacky military exercises against an undefined enemy, it's clear that their deep anxiety over Obama is the main thread. A militia resurgence “now is widely seen among government and academic experts as a reaction to the tectonic shifts in American politics that allowed a black man with a foreign-sounding name and a Muslim-born father to reach the White House.”

If this all sounds like rehashed talking points from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, you would be correct. “Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist, and religious animus,” Gellman insisted.

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To: matt1234

They have straw men. I know people who think these goobers are ready to take over.


61 posted on 10/12/2010 5:04:16 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: matt1234


62 posted on 10/12/2010 6:56:23 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: freedomwarrior998

lighten up and act like a gentleman


63 posted on 10/12/2010 7:34:28 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: SunkenCiv
Time magazine's news judgment is truly puzzling.
Wait, since when has Time magazine had anything to do with news?

An even better question...When has Time magazine had anything to do with judgment?
64 posted on 10/13/2010 2:20:29 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: matt1234
... from 1995 ...

TIME likes to do hit pieces on any group that is perceived to be "right wing."


65 posted on 10/13/2010 7:53:43 AM PDT by smokingfrog (Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
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To: mrmeyer

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1995/1101950731_400.jpg


66 posted on 10/13/2010 8:00:28 AM PDT by smokingfrog (Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
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To: sportutegrl

“Extreme militias were in front of the polling places in the Philly area and go by the name Black Panther.”

Haven’t read much in “Time” about THAT./s;)


67 posted on 10/13/2010 9:03:14 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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