Posted on 04/17/2008 2:38:10 PM PDT by Rufus2007
For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion to push more global warming alarmism.
The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green the new red, white and blue.
Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a disgrace.
Its an absolute disgrace, Mates said. Whoever did it is going to hell. Thats a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessandmedia.org ...
I think since Ive been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things thats needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things, Stengel said. You cant always just say on the one hand, on the other and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. Were experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so.
I respect that. TIME is a publishing arm of the DNC and is proud to admit it.
If only the rest of the socialist Democrat “mainstream” newsrooms were as honest...
i am not debating man’s role in global warming, isn’t any... i am defending time’s freedom to put what they want on the cover... free speech and all...
interesting seeing those who complained about muslims getting hot and bothered about a mahamhead cartoon with a bomb, are reacting quite the same about a clever use of a historical picture...
teeman
Isn’t Gorbachev a member of the “Green” Party?
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