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.
Post #9: excellent analysis.
However, Time is run by uber-leftists who will reform NOTHING, util the day they shut down.
Your suggestions to save the magazine are both simple and logical and will therefor never see the light of day. I’m afraid committed Leftists will ride this puppy into the ground.
I believe that time lag, as much as bias, is the death knell of the weekly. Used to be, when something hit the headlines, you could expect to get a fuller more complete analysis of the issue in a few days when your Time or Newsweek came in the mail. Now, you can get that same (and better) level of analysis online right now and for free at a multitude of sites, and even on cable if you choose wisely.
With the vaunted "24 hour news cycle" there is no market for week old news. Life has passed these relics by. Too bad, so sad.