Time magazine jumps biggest shark ever
I guess since Don Rumsfeld won't get to guest-edit at the Los Angeles Times, maybe the folks at Time magazine brought him on.
Because there is no way to explain how this happened:
It's kind of hard to see in the screenshot above, but the US cover story for the new issue of Time is why the Bible should be taught in public schools.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world gets a cover story about the strength of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Un-be-lievable.
I mean really, I know I complain constantly about the media, but the Los Angeles Times and Time magazine are two of the premier brands in the industry. They have tremendous power, even in the age of the Internet. And obviously both are being run by corporate muckety-mucks who don't have the sense God gave Adam, so to speak.
I don't know how you clean out the cesspool of ignorance and stupidy that seems to exist at Time-Warner and Tribune Media, but this is approaching Fox Noise territory. 'Cause what Time Magazine did with its covers is absurd on a grand scale. And yes, the First Amendment offers protection to the stupid, so Time magazine has a legal right to put out the most unintentionally ironic set of covers in the history of magazine publishing. And everyone else in the media has a First Amendment right to call them on it.
Okay, I have to go find a way to get my jaw back off the floor now.
(Props to Daily Kos diarist debel u for the catch.)
Because there is no way to explain how this happened:
It's kind of hard to see in the screenshot above, but the US cover story for the new issue of Time is why the Bible should be taught in public schools.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world gets a cover story about the strength of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Un-be-lievable.
I mean really, I know I complain constantly about the media, but the Los Angeles Times and Time magazine are two of the premier brands in the industry. They have tremendous power, even in the age of the Internet. And obviously both are being run by corporate muckety-mucks who don't have the sense God gave Adam, so to speak.
I don't know how you clean out the cesspool of ignorance and stupidy that seems to exist at Time-Warner and Tribune Media, but this is approaching Fox Noise territory. 'Cause what Time Magazine did with its covers is absurd on a grand scale. And yes, the First Amendment offers protection to the stupid, so Time magazine has a legal right to put out the most unintentionally ironic set of covers in the history of magazine publishing. And everyone else in the media has a First Amendment right to call them on it.
Okay, I have to go find a way to get my jaw back off the floor now.
(Props to Daily Kos diarist debel u for the catch.)
