Letters to the Editor
thelastnamechosen
Published Letters: 283
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Minerals and precious meddle
[Read the article: Time magazine's FISA fiasco shows how Beltway reporters mislead the country]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Before the internet, it was almost impossible to see the text of bills before they were voted upon and it was very labor and time intensive to even see the text of the law itself. One of the benefits the media provided was access to the raw material of our laws in a timely manner. Part of the media's power came from distilling (read moonshine) that information for public consumption.
The internet now gives us instant access to those raw materials and asks the question--what role is left for the priest now that we can read the bible? Klein is left serving wine and crackers to a congregation he holds in contempt while the collection plate returns with more copper than gold.
God bless the second coming of the printing press.
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On the government's view of data mining--
You don't drown the girl to test the witch, you test the witch to drown the girl.
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Amazing
[Read the article: Joe Klein digs Time's hole deeper still]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right.
There are so many things wrong with this, but I am fascinated with the "who's right" part. It is not a matter finding the truth, but which side is right. It is not a matter of starting with information and trying to reach the truth through reason, it is a matter of justifying spoon fed conclusions after the fact.
Glenn, carve this turkey to the bone.
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Still Amazed
[Read the article: Joe Klein digs Time's hole deeper still]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...nor legal background...
Besides trying to give some plausible excuse for his own ignorance, the message here is clear--
This, dear reader, is above your pay grade and security clearance. SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP! The news-weekly is not an invitation to political debate, but a fashion statement to socially distinguish you from the reality TV crowd. It is to sit on your coffee table and to provide vapid lines for cocktail chatter that begin--"There was an interesting article in Time that said..."
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A panther’s and eagle’s bliss
[Read the article: Joe Klein digs Time's hole deeper still]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sometimes a cigar is just a metaphor for a snake. Sometimes a metaphor is just a metaphor even if it lacks surgical precision, which is not a call for the 'stab in the back' that is unnecessary surgery, which is not a call for the violence of cutlery, which is not a commentary on the morality of eating meat, which is not a reference to oral sex...
Sometimes it is better to listen in metaphor.
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Glenn
[Read the article: Joe Klein digs Time's hole deeper still]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I want to echo what other comments have said about TIME/WARNER's possible conflict of interest regarding the promotion of telecom immunity and specifically regarding their cable based VOIP.
Time needs to state categorically on the record whether their corporate parent will benefit from this legislation.
I wonder if Klein had the professionalism to ask his boss this question before he began writing on the subject.
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Sources
[Read the article: Demand answers from Time magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Aside from laziness or the desire to eliminate accountability, why would any of the sources that Klein used in his piece need to be anonymous?
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Words of wisdom
[Read the article: Demand answers from Time magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and if that consent is not based on reliable information and on our best effort to ferret out the truth, then our democracy is on shaky ground. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816, "it expects what never was and never will be."
Richard Stengel, Managing Editor
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1538643-2,00.html
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Correction
[Read the article: Demand answers from Time magazine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Time needs to post that correction to their website now.
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Ineffincredible
[Read the article: Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]God forbid we ever find ourselves in a situation where both the democrats and the republicans are wrong. We could be in big trouble.
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A correction the the correction
[Read the article: Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shouldn't it read...
A single person who self identifies as a Republican believes the bill can be interpreted that way, but a single person who self identifies as a Democrat doesn't.
Are we really to believe that Time magazine polled the congress or the whole country based upon political party identification and is using this polling data to determine the truth of the matter?
Did they use any other criteria besides self identification to determine if the two people they are using as a proxy for "Democrats" and "Republicans" are really what they say they are?
Shouldn't Time magazine name the two individuals that now speak for the parties as a whole, so that we can know exactly whose words to hang on for any future truth seeking?
So many questions.
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Who is buying what from whom?
[Read the article: Everything that is rancid and corrupt with modern journalism: The Nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Holly, your post got me thinking.
It has been said that consumers are what the media sells as product to the advertisers. Ultimately, the situation is somewhat balanced by the need to keep viewers or readers around to actually sell to the advertisers.
It is situations like this that make you wonder if the advertisers are not the true buyers of what Time magazine is selling. Is government patronage outbidding the corporate advertisers at TIME/WARNER?
How much is amnesty, media consolidation and rigged spectrum auctions actually worth in dollars?
Anyhoo, if Time brought Stengel on board to launch them into the internet age, he is doing a heck of a job.
Then again, ego is a hell of a drug, and it also explains Klein and Stengel's behavior pretty well.
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cestmoi123
[Read the article: Bad stenographers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Publicly-held entities (like Time Warner and Salon) don't have that option - their management has a fiduciary responsibility to maximize enterprise value.
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A publicly-held entity has a legal obligation to maximize the value of the enterprise within the bounds of the law. Any other consideration is entirely inappropriate.
I keep hearing this repeated but it is wrong.
A corporation has an obligation to their corporate charter. It is possible for a corporate charter to say that profit is not a consideration at all.
Because many corporate charters place profits as the highest goal, you may see it as a distinction without a difference, but outside of representations made in a corporate charter there is no legal obligation to maximize profits or enterprise value.