I am sure that Time enjoys the luxury of rewrite as you go journalism that the internet offers. Unfortunately for Time they cannot rewrite their magazine once it is printed – I had a dental appointment today and having to wait for 30 minutes and read the likes of Time, Newsweek and People in the waiting area is much more painful than ANYTHING that the Dentist can dish out. Reading past issues is also quite revealing.
It is always amusing to read old issues and see how freakin out of touch Time et al really is. The most profound in my memory was Nov 2002. I found myself sitting in the dentists office reading the Time issue that was printed the weekend before. This was the weekend when the war in Afghanistan completely turned in favor of the good guys, or in Times opinion the bad guys – USA. Unfortunately for Time it takes 36 hours to print and mail. So here I was reading this magazine with articles that read like this – “Rumsfelds plan will never work – we will need 200,000+ troops on the ground to topple the Taliban.” Of course there was the wacko liberal mantra – “there will be tens of thousands of body bags..” “There is a rift between Rumsfeld and Powell – the tension is preventing victory..” “Too many bombs, not enough bombs, too many troops- not enough troops.” There were quotes from many of the wimp ars politicians denouncing the war and Bush and Rumsfeld. These were the same politicians that once the war in Iraq began would say things like – I supported the war in Afghanistan – but this…. Well – by Monday all major cities in Afghanistan had fallen. OOPPPPSS – One would think that the dinasaur media types like Time, NYT and Newsweek would apologize???????????? Hardly.

iam7545 on December 18, 2006 at 7:01 PM

HE IS

iam7545 on December 18, 2006 at 11:03 PM