Posted on 10/14/2020 6:13:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Time magazine is a pale shadow of its former self, which might explain why it seems to hate the masses. After all, it spent most of 2016 packaging its ugly anti-Trump rants in between nasty anti-Trump covers. Remember the cover where Donald Trump's orange face melted into a puddle -- because he was going to lose the election? Hence the ongoing rage.
In the Oct. 19 edition -- with a quaint cover image of a menacing cloud of coronavirus being pumped out of some kind of smokestacks on the White House roof -- Time promoted an article headlined "Age of Unlogic: The disorienting experience of interviewing voters who can choose their own reality."
Liberal journalists congratulate themselves for being on Team Reality and never seem to care that a big chunk of the public has decided they're egotistical jerks.
The author is Charlotte Alter, daughter of old Newsweek scribe Jonathan Alter, who wrote two books glorifying former President Barack Obama, one hilariously titled "The Center Holds." Charlotte, 30, is a Time "senior correspondent" who demonstrated her affection for the average American voter with this tweet on Sept. 3: "You think voter logic is like: A - B - C - D. IN ACTUALITY, voter logic is more like: A - Purple - Banana - 18."
Let's insert that into the sales pamphlet to get new Time subscriptions. No wonder when you do a Google search for "Time magazine circulation," one of the questions people also ask is "When did Time magazine stop printing?" It hasn't ... yet.
In her September squall of tweets, the Time writer vented to her fellow liberals that she had spent three days talking to voters in Kenosha and Racine, Wisconsin. "There's this mentality on Twitter that's like 'THIS one huge scandal will sink Trump with THIS group of voters' and I can conclusively report that this is bulls---," she said.
Some of this frustration came through in the magazine. "(A)lmost nobody seemed to be talking about" the furious headlines that dealt with the "news about Trump reportedly calling fallen soldiers 'losers' and 'suckers'; news about the death toll from COVID-19 passing 200,000; news of Trump's admitting to journalist Bob Woodward on tape that he had intentionally downplayed the virus."
Guess what. People who aren't die-hard Democrats easily sense that this is badly disguised campaign advertising. When they dismiss it, Time says they are guilty of "unlogic," which Alter defines as "reason distorted by suspicion and misinformation, an Orwellian state of mind that arranges itself around convenient fictions rather than established facts."
But an anonymously sourced claim that Trump maligned fallen soldiers is not an "established fact." The idea that Trump's attempt to avoid echoing the media's corona-panic killed people is not an "established fact." Journalists often mistake their own opinions -- like there's no way Trump can win, or there's no way we could locate an isolated sliver of good news about the coronavirus -- for "established facts."
In her September squall of tweets, the Time writer vented to her fellow liberals that she had spent three days talking to voters in Kenosha and Racine, Wisconsin. "There's this mentality on Twitter that's like 'THIS one huge scandal will sink Trump with THIS group of voters' and I can conclusively report that this is bulls---," she said.
Some of this frustration came through in the magazine. "(A)lmost nobody seemed to be talking about" the furious headlines that dealt with the "news about Trump reportedly calling fallen soldiers 'losers' and 'suckers'; news about the death toll from COVID-19 passing 200,000; news of Trump's admitting to journalist Bob Woodward on tape that he had intentionally downplayed the virus."
Guess what. People who aren't die-hard Democrats easily sense that this is badly disguised campaign advertising. When they dismiss it, Time says they are guilty of "unlogic," which Alter defines as "reason distorted by suspicion and misinformation, an Orwellian state of mind that arranges itself around convenient fictions rather than established facts."
But an anonymously sourced claim that Trump maligned fallen soldiers is not an "established fact." The idea that Trump's attempt to avoid echoing the media's corona-panic killed people is not an "established fact." Journalists often mistake their own opinions -- like there's no way Trump can win, or there's no way we could locate an isolated sliver of good news about the coronavirus -- for "established facts."
With apologies to Sandy Koufax, who was Jewish and quite devout, and would not pitch in a World Series game that fell on Yom Kippur.
Different times...
I love Time Magazine.
Their reputation for accurate and fair reporting was cemented back in 2016 when they dazzled me with their brilliant analysis:
https://time.com/4546942/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-lead-poll/
Not!
In 1978, I was informed by an elder electronics genius, that ‘Time magazine is a Communist rag.’
It’s nice to know that he is right!
Her dear old pa was a spearcatcher for Team Clinton during the impeachment wars.
He was one of the worst offenders.
Department of Redundancy Department much???
At least you no longer are forced to view Time Magazine’s direct rival, Newsweek Magazine, in the grocery checkout as the latter HAS CEASED physical printing. Having made an educated decision DECADES ago that both of these pulp magazines had gone from hard news to pop culture, opinion and politics, I have only seen occasional covers.
What I do know is that Henry Luce, the founder of the Time-Life printing empire in the 1920s, is likely spinning at a high RPM over the current state of his progeny. His rule was no overt political / opinion reporting, he wanted hard facts only.
Postmodernism is one of the main worldviews of lefturd loonism. Postmodernism declares that reality is unknowable, and so there is no objective truth. This means that lefturd loons can make up and choose their own reality to match their agenda.So the author is just a loon who is projecting her own metaphysics and epistemology onto Trump voters.
Who buys Time magazine except for dentists and doctors to put in their waiting-areas for people to read?
Liberal journalists can’t stand knowing they no longer have the power to control elections with lies BS half truths.
The great thing about Trump he has exposed every one of the rats.
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