Yeah. I saw that somewhere else a little while ago and I actually refused to believe that it could be real. I just assumed that the blogger had it wrong. How could they possibly be so lacking in the basic self-consciousness it would require to see the incredible ridiculousness of their "correction." I want to laugh but I can no longer find any humor in this crap at all.

Glen,

You wrote

It's not our false

Should it be "not our fault"

You don't need to post this comment.

My jaw is on the floor. Undoubtedly the most amazing thing I have read in my lifetime! How can anyone ever, ever, ever take Time Magazine seriously from this point forward.

They have truly jumped the shark. The magazine should be relegated to the little wood shack out back with the crescent moon carved in the door. That is now the only place that it will truly be useful. Move over Sears catalog, there's a new butt wiper in town!

Paragraph 6.

My roommate just shot me a funny look when I declared, seemingly out of the blue, "GREENWALD ANGRY!!!", which is derived from our common response to a Keith Olbermann "Special Commentary" ("OLBERMANN ANGRY!!!").

Have yourself a beer (or, because you are an unserious, out-of-touch East Coast liberal pansy, a glass of Merlot), you earned it!

This passed for satire not too long ago. Obviously its time for another 'blogger ethics panel' to correct the problem.

In the swirl of America, what are the number of people who read Glenn today? Jane Hamsher? Digby? How many know the story tonight?

Maybe a million, and many of those will forget soon. There are 340 million Americans, and this creature is sure he can ignore the netroots. They own the media, we are still very few, and obviously Time, Inc, doesn't think we represent a damn thing.

Ha. See you around, guys. We'll be back.

I can't decide if this is a case of a pressman hanging the "open all night" sign on his office door or if this is a case of a monkey constructing grammatically correct sentences. My guess is that it's a little of both.

Time has just had its Jason Blair moment with one of its senior columnists and failed miserably.

Wrong is wrong. I'm done.

That's why it's called "he-said/she-said journalism." They report the conflict, not the facts.

Time is killing their brand, such that it is. Even a wingnut with half a wit must be thinking to themselves, "jeez, I know they can lie for us better than that. They're incompetent!" Poor little Joe, that pasty white rear end of his must be red by now.

Which is to say, we don't take it seriously at all.

It's a propaganda machine for the right wing.

Thank you Glenn for helping make that clear.

Now we just need to make sure this bias is as clear

as Fox's bias.

I'm also aware that bias is not Glenn's point, but

making sure EVERYONE knows Time and Fox toe the

same party line, less will take Time seriously.

...has been astounding. but, as GG points out, it's a good thing--it illuminates the central problem with corporate media SO well.

"Republicans believe the bill can be interpreted that way, but Democrats don't."

Translation: JOE KLEIN IS A REPUBLICAN.

Have a nice day.

Oh no! In this golden age of journalism, The Onion is far more accurate, and relevant.

Now, anytime anyone repeats dreck from any of Time's columnists, we can simply point to your blogging over the last few days.

Time is Not Trustworthy. Period.

If you are a news organization, you don't allow these mistakes to go uncorrected. So they are not a news organization.

They are a propaganda outfit.

And we have, thanks to Glenn and Jane, exceptionally well documented evidence of that statement. Permanently etched into the tubes.

1 down, 99 to go?

So in other words, their "correction" is an assertion that the editors also "have neither the time nor the legal background to figure out who's right" about the material they are passing along as "news".

Do we need to know anything more about Time magazine?

I subscribe to Salon, contribute to FireDogLake, Digby, the Editors and other bloggers, and I wouldn't even bother to read Time magazine for free in the dentist's office.

Mass-media - for profit and corporately conglomerated - is simply not capable of real journalism. Rather than doing any reporting, it must be reported on - by the likes of you, Glenn, and Jane and Digby and Duncan Black and all the others out there who do it because they are compelled by the truth.

Those of us who care about the truth need to remember this, and need to support all of you as much as we can, and refuse to be a "market" for the convenient lies and half-truths the likes of Time magazine would peddle to us.

TIME proves it has the about as much relevance as Tom Friedman given recent history. Fashions change, perhaps journalism will as well. Just don't hold your breath in the meantime. Remember is wasn't long ago that David Gregory thought it amusing to do back-up for Karl Rove. These people sold us the class clown while they claimed to be serious. I don't think we can expect any change.

either 1. have a liberal bias, or 2. can be ignored to make a point, as long as it makes the dems look like wimps. Another 'news' outlet turned reality show.

I knew, sin duda, that things were much, much worse than even I had imagined them to be. I had inadvertantly deluded myself into believing they were painfully aware of how compromised they had become, but simply couldn't figure out what to do about it.

This was certainly true about some, particularly the old guard, such as Dan Rather. But we all know what happened to him... or do we?

Anyway, Colbert was so obviously, and wickedly funny that when he "bombed" the audience's "what's so funny?" response added a whole 'nother layer of meaning to the performance the likes of which interactive artist/performers of the 1960s like the Living Theater and Allan Kaprow could only dream of, since virtually all the world was able to participate, if only to raise their eyebrows and sneer, "Yeah, right!"

Now we find ourselves in the situation where everything that happens with the Versailles media can be credibly seen as an inadvertant homage to Colbert's schtick that night.

In fact, it's increasingly difficult to see anything the Versailles media does in any other light.