Mc Journalism...
Posted on 09/04/2006 9:12:01 AM PDT by abb
For most of the 20th century, under the influence of its founder, Henry R. Luce, Time magazine spoke in a single authoritative voice that reflected the world back to its readers.
Now Richard Stengel, the new managing editor of Time, wants to change the metaphor.
“We’ve traditionally been a mirror, and to me, we more and more have to be a lamp,” Mr. Stengel said, invoking the title of the study of Romantic literature by M. H. Abrams. “As a lamp, you’re shining a light on something.”
Mr. Stengel’s plan is to fill the pages of Time with more essays and news analysis, give the magazine a sharper point of view and draw more brand-name journalists into the fold. If this sounds familiar, it may be that Mr. Stengel wants Time to be little more like its chief rival, Newsweek, which already has a star roster of essayists like George Will, Anna Quindlen and Fareed Zakaria.
So far, Mr. Stengel has drawn attention to the magazine by hiring Ana Marie Cox, a writer known less for her journalistic chops than for her previous job writing heavily opinionated posts on the gossip blog Wonkette. He has also highlighted articles that are largely reported essays, like the cover story about the Middle East in the July 31 issue, “The Way Out,” by Michael Elliott. “It’s about having an idea that is different,” Mr. Stengel said. “I want to have people talk about what we’re writing about.”
As Mr. Stengel tries to shake up Time, Newsweek is undergoing a shake-up of its own. Tomorrow, the magazine is expected to confirm reports that its managing editor and heir apparent, Jon Meacham, will succeed the magazine’s longtime editor, Mark Whitaker.
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In other words, less news and more bullsh**. The exact opposite of what they need to be doing to survive.
Liberals....always searching for new ways to pose as journalists.
It never seems to occur to these people that these publications already had an obvious point of view. Their first hire was Wonkette, and for balance they will hire Al Franken or Michael Moore. This will cover what the editors consider mainstream.
Actually, this is the right approach. A weekly news magazine is even more of a dinosaur than a daily newspaper these days, since electronic media pretty much makes all news "old" as soon as it is printed.
I read publications like Newsweak and watched programs like "Meet the depressed" because I liked to keep up with the world. Then I found the Washington Times, Conservative Review and the Weekly Standard and then I found the internet. Now I don't need them or their lies and skewed politics anymore.
Time and Newsweek are nothing but Democrat rags. They both are going nowhere, no matter what they do. If they want a hint, the word is objectivity and fairness in presenting differing views. They will never do it. Like CNN and MSNBC, etc. they are just liberal, left-wing, Democrat scum and vermin shrills.
Time and Newsweek are nothing but Democrat rags. They both are going nowhere, no matter what they do. If they want a hint, the word is objectivity and fairness in presenting differing views. They will never do it. Like CNN and MSNBC, etc. they are just liberal, left-wing, Democrat scum and vermin shrills.
In other words, they want to make it worse than it already is.
You could also say that, for the first time, they are being honest about editorializing.
TRANSLATION: We'll tell you where to look.
Changing from "Meaningless" to "Complete Non-entity".
I couldn't pick em out in a line up.
Its been years since Time was a "newsweekly". Now, more than ever before, they should just re-label it an opinion journal.
Mc Journalism...
That'll work.
English Translation: They are going to stop even pretending that they are not biased and start running Moveon.org press releases unedited.
More snarling-down-the-nose, smartypants agendnalism!
That'll sell!
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