Posted on 04/07/2006 11:09:26 AM PDT by george76
Are their journalists embedded with Al Qeada getting the cut?
And some might think I'm joking but I'm not. Frontline did a report on "The Insurgency" and interviewed such journalists.
It is junk.
I do not even see Time or Newsweek any more.
Time-Warner? They publish DC Comics and Mad Magazine, right?
Maybe they need to stick to funnybooks, they certainly don't have what it takes to report news.
Scary thing is that most libraries (including schools) get this magazine and it becomes "research material" for young minds full of mush writing about current events and recent history.
Rush actually used that word on his show today when talking about Time laying people off.
Think of the forests that could be saved if Time-LIfE stopped publishing.
Works for me... :-)
Artist: The Chambers Brothers
Song: Time Has Come Today
Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They say we don't listen anyway
Time has come today
(Hey)
Oh
The rules have changed today (Hey)
I have no place to stay (Hey)
I'm thinking about the subway (Hey)
My love has flown away (Hey)
My tears have come and gone (Hey)
Oh my Lord, I have to roam (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)
Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by the tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)
(Time)
Now the time has come (Time)
There are things to realize (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time [x11]
Oh
Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)
(Time)
Now the time has come (Time)
There are things to realize (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time [x4]
Yeah
When the Berlin Wall came down, some guards lost their jobs.
Perhaps a new marketing approach is needed for MSM. A few suggestions from a news consumer might be helpful:
state fact not opinion within "news stories" (including sports pages)
save editorializing for that department, do not reprint DNC talking points as factual representations of historical events
get that 'foreign correspondent' desk going again, but this time assign them to American small towns & cities - because flyover country is a foreign concept to MSM.
In essence try giving facts and truth within a story. Who knows the MSM may save a job or two with this new concept.
Then came movies, Radio and TV. There were new things to take up the former reading time. So first the smaller cities and finally the bigger ones became one newspaper towns. At the same time the number of magazines declined. There was a time (pardon the pun) when Look, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post had large circulations.
Eighteen years ago Talk Radio hit the scene as the Reagan appointed FCC removed the regulations making political talk radio illegal. That made the way for Rush and other talk shows that gave the right a voice and reduced the time people spent reading news and listening to main stream media news and commentary.
In the last decade the Internet has competed for a reader's time. And the print media as well as the major networks have lost audience.
We are almost back to the days before Radio.. when the media consisted of both left and right biased outlets. The days of the left only outlets are nearly gone.
It is interesting to note that during the days when both left and right wing newspapers existed in most markets, the Republicans dominated politics. From its birth in the 1860s until the 1930s Republicans mostly dominated national politics. Then came the move to a media that was biased to the left. During that period the Democrats mostly held sway in national politics.
Now we are getting back to a media where both the left and the right positions are available to all those who are interested. Once again Republicans have become the dominate party in national affairs.
That should tell the Democrats something.. but I doubt if they get the message.
Unfortunately, that's a sample of the character of far too many people who frequent FR these days.
Like in most cases there will be people who had no input into some of the anti-American activities that will lose their job and that is a shame. Time Inc was one of my most corrupt customers when I worked for one of their suppliers. In Dallas TX one of their vendors had a female customer service rep. whose sole job was to fully service one Time's big shots. By fully service you know what I mean.
If they live in New York City, they're probably liberal even if they are the business end.
"Floyd Rules!"
Yes they do ...
Maybe a better song for the Time mag. folks would be:
If you didn't care what happened to me,
and I didn't care for you,
we would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain,
occasionally glancing up through the rain
wondering which of the buggers to blame
and watching for pigs on the wing.
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