Posted on 11/28/2017 6:41:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Time Magazine has been the Bible for Democrats and Leftists for nearly a century.
Go to a library and pull some back issues from the FDR era. You’ll see it’s the same sycophantic rag it is today.
2nd worst. He’s really gonna soil his raiments when Time is sold to David Pecker (National Inquirer).
That's the key to the global warming marxists. It's not about science, or polar bears, or hurricanes, or spotted owls. It's about the ideology of heavy-handed, big, global government.
That is actually pretty typical of their business model.
Before an out right buy, they “dip their toes in”. Sometimes, many times, that is all the further it goes. If they like it, they will buy in more. If they don’t they may just let the loan get paid off.
But there will be influence on how the business is run. I would expect a few Koch alumni to start filtering into Time along the way. Again, they have a pretty sound model that I have seen applied to very diverse and different companies. It will help Time, and it is not political.
Ed
What it TIME now - about 12 pages ‘thick”?
“...In fact, any reputable climate scientist will tell you..”
This is the closest reference and it simply demeans any opposing scientific views.
Henry R Luce would almost certainly feel the same way about how you and your fellow LEFTists destroyed his Time-Life media enterprises!
Anybody who thinks the Kochs are Conservatives needs to check into a mental institution. I heard one of them say that they don’t much care for either Party, they are simply engaged because it helps their business interests. They are not a whole lot different than George Soros except that they aren’t Jewish.
Time, newsweek, are but two publications who advanced agendas instead of reporting the news.
Lib every damn thing doesn’t sell.
There’s nothing a liar hates more than the truth.
Liberals can not compete in the marketplace of ideas. They must dictate and control the minds of the masses. Their views demand total, dictatorial control. It is not simply that they get to have free speech, or even own the majority of outlets for free speech. It is that there must not be free speech for anyone else. There’s no room for dissent. Completely absent from this equation is the idea that people could possibly think for themselves.
Liberals do not come to their views through logic, reason, or rational thought. They emote their way through life. Global warming MUST be true and scientific because they FEEL that it is so. To them science is just yet another tool to use in their quest to control people.
Liberals are anti-choice when it comes to schools and media options.
Liberals are anti-science when it comes to defining human life and biological sex.
Thirteen years is your “Life’s work”? That’s pathetic.
stupid is as stupid does: the fools at huffpuff are overreacting. they should be celebrating the Koch brothers wasting two billion dollars on a failing, imploding print publishing “empire” that’s a mere skeleton of its former self.
The “flagship” publication, TIME Magazine, is a hollowed-out publication with both shrinking readership and shrinking page count. The brand itself is as worthless as LOOK Magazine, and any attempt to convert it to a “conservative” publication would have the same effect of trying to convert National Review to a Nuevo Workers Daily, namely utter disaster.
And the rest of the publications in the Time, Inc. stable are all pretty much in the same boat as Time Magazine.
Print publishing is dead and the only reason it’s still hanging on is that the 60-80 crowd that is still subscribing out of habit haven’t all died off yet. Anyone younger than 40 pretty much doesn’t read print at all for any reason.
And converting the brands from print to digital is nearly fruitless from a revenue standpoint since print ads bring in thousands per page, whereas digital ads brings in microcents per ad, assuming the ads aren’t behind a paywall to start with, in which case there’s no point in advertising at all.
For the first time ever.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
It'd be a dream come true if Koch brothers became 'hands on' owners of TIME. Of course editors and reporters have a long history of standing up to owners... Still, if anyone can turn TIME around it would be the Koch bothers. Hope they reject the quick sell/quick profit thing.
The Koch Brothers are down around number 60 or more in the list of biggest donors to political candidates. They aren’t even in the same league as the NEA, Steyer, Soros, etc.
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