Posted on 04/18/2019 9:44:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
The left mourns the loss of a magazine like the loss of a friend: "We had so much quality time together!" "You understood me!" The motivation to save these outlets is both political and cultural -- if one is allowed to die off, the rest will follow, along with their influence.
Enter, TIME magazine. Bleeding circulation for years, unable to translate its print appeal to an Internet age, TIME has gone from a circulation of nearly 20 million worldwide to a few million, primarily web-based. The only thing really keeping it going is its two flagships: the "Person of the Year" issue and its "100 Most Influential" issue. The latter was released with P.R. worthy of a queen's state visit on Wednesday.
Aside from the obvious "influential" folks (Bill Barr, Bob Mueller, and President Trump), TIME included a few other curious choices, like Justice Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford. About her, guest profiler Kamala Harris wrote, "Her story, spoken while holding back tears, shook Washington and the country ... Through her courage, she forced the country to reckon with an issue that has too often been ignored and kept in the dark."
Totally political. What Blasey Ford did and said last October was accuse a man of sexual misconduct 30 years prior with zero corroboration. And remember, she initially sent an anonymous note accusing Kavanaugh, which was then leaked to the Washington Post. Most importantly, this "icon" (at least according to TIME) failed to derail the nomination. How is that so "influential"?
And then you have another TIME influencer, Taylor Swift. She continues to be an entertainment juggernaut, but her big move this past year was to throw in with the Democrats and endorse Marsha Blackburn's Senate opponent in Tennessee. Blackburn decided to "shake it off" and won.
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They will cling to it bitterly......................
Even though they acted stupidly.
How is a news reader like Gayle King influential?
How much did this Nothing-Burger cost ME, Joe Taxpayer7777?
Some folks need to go to prison for treason and/or sedition.
Maybe they meant they have influenza?
Why doesn’t Chris Wallace apply for a job at CNN or MSNBC? I listen to him and I swear he is amongst the Anti Trump crowd. What is he doing on Fox and why does fox give him so much Air Time?
If only “TIME” was up for anti-Trump Republicans as well.
Little more than *crickets* from the GOP since Barr’s presser.
It seems odd that a publication with a long standing name and reputation doesn’t go into survival mode and stop it’s slide to the political fringes, and instead just seems to get over a certain hump and fully embrace it.
You’d think that they’d realize that they at least need to put up the pretense of being not having political subjectivity, and leave the niche sensationalism to the less prestigious titles and institutions, but it seems that during the evolution of an organization, there is no way to surgery on a cancer that would render the organism tattered and gutted as a result.
“I listen to him and I swear he is amongst the Anti Trump crowd”
Yeah, he most definitely is. Last I knew, his Sunday morning talking heads show was one of the worst rated. I don’t see him going anywhere soon. He seems to be idolized by many of the FNC hosts because he’s such a “legendary” interviewer.
He’s in the tank for the left, and always will be. I would encourage everyone
Do any of the few so called Slime subscribers actually pay for this slime?
Trump will lose the election in 2020 because 14 states are now committing their electoral votes to the majority winner. That will be the dimocrat because they cheat, steal, lie, corrupt, etc. This gives that slug 189 votes even before the election. Same tactic got Hitlery the nomination against Sanders. I think we are lost, I may move to Venezuela.
His old man was a a huge leftist and he is an example of the seed didn’t fall far from the tree. He is an embarrassment to Fox.
It doesn’t go into effect until they get 270.
Obviously, you haven’t been listening to CNN..../s
You do not understand the process.
Go here
Chris Wallace is the same smirking , snarky arrogant Leftist sh!t his old man was.
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