Letters to the Editor
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no surprise
this is no surprise.
Time Magazine has always been an almost totally useless right-wing rag. I've been around a half-century, and the thing has always been Readers' Digest as news-magazine. Like I say, useless. Time makes Salon look like The Atlantic, and I mean that as a compliment.. Salon is, of course, a lot more fun to read than the Atlantic.. -g-
The fact that they would hire Kristol to do anything, let alone write a column, just confirms what has always been true about Time. It says nothing about Kristol we don't already know.
I wish I knew whether the people who run MSM like Time really are just intensely ignorant sluts, or are deeply cynical smart people. Probably some of both.
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Sad but not surprising.
I would say I'm suprised, but I've read too much about China and the Luces.
t.
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What's the problem
with failing up? Bush has been doing it for decades.
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failing up or
dumbing up
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How about a Shar of IRAQ, you know how they need more Helicopters, Humvees and Tanks...maybe Aircraft...
and perhaps we could make their Armed Forces second only to the Shar of Iran, who had the THIRD most weapOned Armed Forces ater we put him in charge, UNTIL he was dethrone.
AFTER ALL---- there is MONEY to be made in this FIASCO, more by coming out tha by going in..
Malarkey needs more of everything so Allowe to do for him, heck Sadaaam gor chemicals fromus, why not more for Iraq now?
IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY NOW
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And Andrew Sullivan is on their website!
Yet another self-appointed pundit who's been wrong on just about everything for as long as he's been writing. The fact that he's wrong about a few less things nowadays isn't even to his credit as he had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the real world over the course of half a decade -- and then he changed his mind to the small extent he did only because his heroes tried to enshrine their hatred of him into the Constitution a few too many times!
No left-wing pundit would have an ounce of credibility if they arrived at an obviously wrong conclusion even once. So how many times does a right-wing pundit have to be demonstrably wrong before their opinions are no longer published? However many times that is, apparently none of them have reached that number yet.
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East Coast Creeps
This ding-dong Kristol is invulnerable, because he once was accepted into the inner circle. He has no shame, apparently. I believe, maybe he used to have shame. I met his sister once, long ago, and she was nice.
Does he take drugs?
But he is a dip. Get a grip, dip! See yourself. Understand your mistakes. No wisdom, just status? That is not what you really want.
Rethink, and apologize, and try to make amends. Or just roll up and retire.
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Cool.
Now Joe Klien can have someone to trade "brillant" insights based on sub par ideas and mediocre writing talents.
MAD magazine examines content of schlock much better than TIME.
Man of the Year? Alfred E. Neuman."What, me worry?"
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Agreed, no surprise
In my stint in journalism I noticed that the people who rose the farthest were not the ones who were knowledgeable or capable, but all too often the ones with the biggest egos and the most time devoted to slavishly schmoozing the higher-ups. It's a rather political business, perhaps because the measure of success in journlaism ("he captured the heart of the story!") is so subjective.
I've often thought that upon graduating from college, I could have gone to Washington and started copying and distributing a four-page handout newsleter with a pompous title such as "The Reality Report." I would only have had to make up opinions and conjectures to fill its columns. And within a few years I would have been invited on a yak show. If I had been belligerent enough, or pompous enough, well, I could be writing that column for Time Magazine.
By the way, I'm still rolling my eyes over the recent cover of Time, about the ISG, that stated "Why Bush Will Listen."
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Right On, chas.
100+%
Right the fuck on.
Something deeply, deeply disturbing has happened in journalism these past couple of decades. My theory is that it also has to do with the way journalism is taught. I'm sure as hell glad that that wasn't my major. Who the hell, in their right mind, would want to work with these people?
I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.
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Controversy Sells
Welcome to the multi-national conglomerate controlled media. Welcome to the application of cutthroat, growth obsessed corporate governance to journalism. Facts aren't facts unless they are politically and socially inert- otherwise they are just 'speculation', easily dismissed at the first sign of discomfort from advertisers, owners, or government officials. Anti-trust laws what? Independant journalism who? That's all just hooey- the bottom line is still the bottome line, after all.