I wouldn’t think Time Inc. would even have a Christmas party. I’d expect something more like a Winter Fiesta or maybe a Snow Festival.
If Fortune and Money had to lay people off, THAT would be ironic.
And it would make me wonder why the hell I was subscribing.
Geez, if they had fired 650 people then they could have afforded a very nice Christmas party. What is wrong with Time? (smile)
Awwww... brings tears to my eyes...
Meanwhile, at least 20 editorial people were axed yesterday by Rick Tetzeli, the managing editor of Entertainment Weekly.
another tear...
"Elsewhere, the company said it was axing 92 people from the circulation and consumer-marketing departments."
Tears are really flowing now...
And pigs fly.
Schadenfreude!
The question Time should ask...is where are the readers? Where are the subscriptions? Where are the broadbased supporters of Time?
The answer is that they have been draining out this crowd magazine for twenty years. Up until 2000...I might have read at least a dozen issues a year. In the past five years....I’ve picked up one issue at the dentist and thats it. No one really cares to read a very slanted view of the world. Toss in the fact that eighty percent of the magazine is already old news by the time it comes out....makes this a joke for a magazine.
If they want five suggestions to fix it, then fine: (1) move the magazine out of NY City and put it in Nashville, TN...to slash salaries of employees by fifty percent. (2) Pick out a Republican and Democrat senator each week and give them a tough subject to argue key points on...with no slant by the writers of the magazine. (3) Half of the entire magazine ought to be “heartland” material and talk about topics that regular people face...rather than go to the middle of Africa to discuss tribal feuds (let the National Geographic folks do what they should cover, not global warming in every single issue). (4) Hire journalist graduates from real universities in America, not Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Colombia. And (5) Accept the fact that a good forty-five percent of America just doesn’t appreciate the Obama administration, so offer a honest critique and slap occasionally.
A story like this brings warmth to the heart.
I expect we’ll see Christmas, Easter and any other religious holiday thrown off the calander as Democrats make the rediculous charge that a national holiday celbrating Christ is a ‘religious endorsement by the government’.
Canb’t happen? Really? It’s perfectly legal for a govenrment official to express their religious beliefs in public, but the ACLU is hard at work trying to strip officials of that constitutionally protected right.
What’s wrong with Festivus, that’s more in keeping with Time’s worldview than Christmas.
Time Magazine has long since forfeited any credibility. Time is reduced to serving up endless journalistic Lewinskis to the democrat party.
Even democrats can’t tolerate this type of over-the-top bias.
Time is unreadable. Seriously, when was the last time you or anyone you know ever read this rag?
It is “Time” to shut the doors and close down permanently.
Just read the infamous “obama issue” of Time (I get it free).
It was full of so much ga-ga for Obama it was beyond unbelievable.
I’m going to save the issue to refer back to when the disappointment and historical perspective hits.
Of course, by then Time itself will be defunct, and a part of history.
They should try at SKI magazine and National Geographics. I just renewed both subscriptions Friday.
I’m sure it won’t matter as they already had their Obama party already.
Maybe it’s just a new policy of having only one ‘messiah’ party a year.
You know, the whole thing about stepping up to be fired got me thinking.
When the libs are put on the line to either keep their job or be let go for the rest of the group, if they are such selfless, altruistic people, why don’t they have droves and droves of people asking to be let go? Why aren’t they all throwing themselves on the unemployment grenade?
Because when their ass is on the line, we find out what kind of people they are. They aren’t superhuman, superior-moraled people as they have made you believe. They are just plain, normal people with a strong (and I would say massive) self-interest streak.
Shake out all the Slimes and Newsweak subscription litter cards and drop in the mail for proce$$ing. Send a message and clean up the planet.
And was about as accurate as Time.