Comments on: Time hires The Note creator Mark Halperin.

By: MediaBloodhound

MediaBloodhound — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:18:12 +0000

Incredible. Yet par for the course. And hey, don’t forget that other titan of journalistic ethics who also recently joined Time – former New Republic editor Peter Beinart, one of the subjects of Moyers’ “Selling the War” documentary.

Here’s the great journalist defending how he came to make such bold statements as, “We need a little bit of logistical support, but we don’t need the moral support of anyone, because we’re on the side of the angels in this”:

PETER BEINART: I don’t think that I presented myself as a Middle East expert per se. I was a political journalist. I was a– a columnist writing about all kinds of things. Someone in my– in my position is not a Middle East expert in the way that somebody who studies this at a university is, or even at a think tank. But I consumed that stuff.

I was relying on people who did that kind of reporting and people who had been in the government who had– who had access to classified material for their assessment.

P.S.
Shining Light, good for you!!

By: tom baker

tom baker — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:28:06 +0000

So Time is now only 15 years behind the times, as opposed to 20-30, so I guess that puts them right in the vanguard of the msm by today’s low, low standards.

By: Shining Light

Shining Light — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:44:26 +0000

We’re letting our Time subscription expire this summer – with sadness for what was, and we depended upon. They will be told WHY.

I will not continue to pay for such as Kristol & Halperin to come into our house. (Our house & land is a Bush Free Zone.)

By not offering objective, in-depth, curiosity based reporting, Time is preparing it’s own funeral. They want to cut news positions, these latest moves under the new editors will do it; as true reporters, if not laid off, will leave out of disgust.

We have turned to sites such as TP, as we have not found reliable news elsewhere.

Journalism schools should stop cranking out graduates – there are no places of employment left.

-Shining Light (Subscriber since 1967-growing up in a household which subscribed since before WW II.)

By: PrahaPartizan

PrahaPartizan — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:43:18 +0000

Why should this be any surprise? Just look at what’s happened to CNN over the last six years. What’s the common connection between Time and CNN? Why, their ownership is the same – TIME Warner. So, what’s the surprise. They’re just making sure that one of the boys is landing in the promised sinecure.

By: Cali4nian

Cali4nian — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:38:57 +0000

Looks like the Time is right. Ouch.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:15:48 +0000

Does TP block reference to Z I O N I S T S? Seems they are the brains behind Neo Conservatism and the Invasion of Iraq. Also seems they are the brains behind the worst of the White House propaganda spin.

By: emobiles

emobiles — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:09:55 +0000

Are Zionist Neo-Conservatives running the propaganda machine?

By: Shirley Ugest

Shirley Ugest — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:07:27 +0000

The Zionist Neo-Conservatives are running the armed madhouse.

By: ggibson

ggibson — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:18:24 +0000

We must all educate our children about the ways of this world… if we leave it to the media our children will be turned into rightwingers.

By: Liberty Lover

Liberty Lover — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:45:34 +0000

“Time” to cancel my subscription.

By: slappymagoo

slappymagoo — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:33:37 +0000

My parakeet has been constipated ever since I started lining his cage with Time magazine. This’ll probably kill ‘em.

By: gummitch

gummitch — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:30:10 +0000

I know neocons who consider Time magazine the epitome of left-wing thought . . . which just demonstrates how far to the Right they are.

By: powkat

powkat — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:19:01 +0000

Whoe even reads Time or Newsweek anymore? They are overpriced (even with the ’special offers’ they keep sending) and not worth reading. All the columnists I used to like have gone on-line, and there is very little news – it’s all pop culture and social theory. The only thing worth reading is Anna Quindlin every other week, and I can do that at the library or on-line.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:16:06 +0000

I haven’t read Time in years, so it will be easy to continue with that.

By: kelso

kelso — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:00:15 +0000

Time Magazine: The rag that brought you such person’s of the year as: GW ‘00 and ‘04, Guliani ‘01, Newt ‘95, Sadat ‘77, Stalin ‘39 & ‘42, and Hitler ‘38.

There have been a few other worthless human pieces of shite as well, but they weren’t despicable enough to make person of the year.

By: bwbushh8ter

bwbushh8ter — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:57:48 +0000

How much time does Time magazine have left anyway? These Internet tubes seem to be taking away from all the old school publications, leaving only 70 year old, O’Rielly loving white men to read toilet paper like Time magazine.

By: theswan

theswan — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:48:22 +0000

Print: The way of the dinosaur, written by dinasaurs.

By: Reich Winger's NightMare

Reich Winger's NightMare — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:44:48 +0000

I do hope Time and their corporate conglomeration parent enjoys their trip to the dark side. I long ago gave up on the tradition media as sources of real news. They are beyond irrelevant to folks who know how to think for themselves.

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:39:23 +0000

Time magazine has decided to commit suicide with the Bush Regime. Very very sad!

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:37:32 +0000

After watching Bill Moyer’s “Buying the War” — I realize now that the intrepid reporters (the deep throats) are being put out to pasture : now it’s the age of the paid pundits. Pseudo-journalism, if you will.

Liberal media, my ass.