Does anyone else get the feeling that TIME magazine is moving to the right?

[Kablooie]

More and more I seem to be reading about Republican and religious issues in Time.
Also their content seems to be getting lighter and emptier.
The new layout also pushes huge cartoony titles pictures and text at the expense
of content.

I always considered Time to be a fairly neutral digest of news from the week with a
few slightly in depth articles.

Now it seems to be becoming a tract written for the right wing illiterati.

Anyone else sensing this?

[uppityperson]

1. I don't see how they could move much further right

They have been this way for a long time. Perhaps they finally have dropped any sort of "let's pretend we are centralist" stuff.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. So by my calculation that would have to mean

that they are now either totalitarian fascist or have circled right around to totalitarian communist, as there wasn't any other room on the right for them to move to.

[Cha]

3. Are you kidding me?

I dropped time years ago because all I saw was cover up reporting about the bushit regime.

I'm always Shocked I tell you when I read something factual in newsweak or time.

[Bluebear]

4. Sensing? I cancelled my subscription years ago.

After a slew of stories about the Virgin Mary, miracles, etc.

[youngdem]

5. I guess you haven't been reading it long

It has been a wing-nut publication justifying torture, illegal war and lying steadfastly for the entirety of the Bush administration and for years previous, all while pretending to be a neutral media outlet. If they moved any further to the right, they would have to merge with The National Review.

[Kablooie]

6. What's decent alternative in your opinion?

Something that gives a digest of the news, not in depth articles?

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Utne Reader

For more depth, the Progressive, the Nation. Hell, Vanity Fair does a better job than Time.

[donheld]

11. Rolling Stone has done some amazing reporting lately

Actually for quite awhile.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Yes. The RFK Jr story & others.

[kath]

17. The British press does a MUCH better job than ours.

BBC, Guardian, and Observer - online.

[SOS]

7. Founded by an enthusiastic Fascist

"America needs at this moment a moral leader, a national moral leader. The outstanding national moral leader of the world today is Mussolini."
-Henry Luce, 1928

"A state reborn by virtue of Fascist symbols, Fascist rank and hence Fascist enterprise."
Henry Luce on Italy under Mussolini, Nov. 28, 1930

"The moral force of Fascism, appearing in totally different forms in different nations, may be the inspiration for the next general march of mankind."
-Henry Luce, April 19, 1934

Luce switched from Fascism to the Republican Party after Pearl Harbor.
He edited Time until 1964.

Time has been right-wing since it's first days as a fascist publication.

On edit:
Richard D. Parsons, Time/Warner CEO, is a Bush supporter.

[blm]

16. Hugh Sidey helped Bush1 for DECADES - always covering up his crimes of office.

The Bushes ended up hosting the Hugh Sidey Scholarship after he died - a little something for the future fascist propagandist of choice.


Sidey's death announcement. Note the bit by Matt Cooper (another BFEE protector



Hugh Sidey, who covered the White House and the American Presidency for TIME for close to half a century, died Monday night in Paris of a heart attack. He was 78. Born and raised in Iowa, Sidey came to understand the presidents of the last 48 years as well as anyone. He was with Kennedy in Dallas and Nixon in China. He was the iconic insider, staying close to many presidents even after they left the White House, becoming great friends with Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush.

A fourth-generation journalist and son of a country editor in Greenfield, Iowa, Sidey never became a prisoner of the Beltway. He'd often go home to Iowa to listen and learn what Americans were thinking. He was among the first print journalists on regular television, appearing on the late Agronsky & Company. As he scaled back his work for TIME, he continued to be deeply involved in the life of the White House. He was active in the White House Historical Association and co-wrote a book, The Presidents of the United States of America, that is a good history of the men and the office.

Though retired, Sidey continued to work for TIME, and had been on assignment for the magazine as recently as last week.


Sidey Remembered by Colleagues and Friends


Matthew Cooper
TIME White House Correspondent

The Hugh Sidey I knew at TIME was endlessly genial. He'd come by the Washington bureau long after his "retirement," always dapper in coat and tie, to see "what's happening." "How are we doing?" he'd ask, actually wanting to know about those of us still in the trenches and to get caught up on the latest gossip. He'd always have plenty of it himself, often providing delicious tidbits that had eluded those of us covering the Oval Office. When I had questions about the Bush White House, I'd often run them by Hugh and I'd find he'd have nuggets like how the 41st president loved to email friends racy jokes and how father and son had stopped talking about the war. Indeed, Hugh was the first to flag for me how deep the rift over Iraq was between allies of the father and son presidents. He also understood the Reagan family dynamic better than anyone. And he was always endlessly supportive to those of us who followed him, offering advice and counsel and encouragement. When I faced a possible prison sentence last summer for not testifying in the CIA leak case— I eventually did talk to the Fitzgerald grand jury—I had some close friends write letters to the judge, asking for mercy. The first person I thought of to testify for my character was the most respected man I knew, Hugh Sidey.

[blm]

8. TIME has been RW for decades - old and dear friends of Poppy Bush controlled

that rag for many years.

[Double T]

9. Time has been right. You are NOW saying Time has gone NEOCON right..

I ended my subscription long ago for Time's RW positions.

[devilgrrl]

12. Yes, about 20+ years ago

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[GeorgeGist]

13. TIME is moving foward ...

to irrelevance. Which suits most of it's writers ambitions just dandy.

[foreigncorrespondent]

14. From what I remember...

...it has always had a right lean in it.

[KT2000]

18. They really came out

of the closet when Reagan was elected.