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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSTUNNING: Comparing U.S. & World Covers for TIME Magazine
Witness:
This is not an isolated incident, for perusing TIME's covers reveals countless examples of the publication tempting the world with critical events, ideas or figures, while dangling before Americans the chance to indulge in trite self-absorption.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/25/1039957/-STUNNING-Comparing-U-S-World-Covers-for-TIME-Magazine
Is it any wonder there are so many low information voters? This article is from 2011 but it's still relevant.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts)... is part and parcel of the "mainstream media" in this country, you can pretty much rule out any hint of integrity from the get go. No better or worse than Newsweek, CBS, FOX, you name it.
You are not going to get any real useful information or analysis from the mainstream media, period.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)As cultural inferior as we all know people of the Middle East to be - why are CNN and BBC's Middle Eastern versions fairly intelligent and reasonably sophisticated - while their versions made for the American public are at their very best a cross between the Weekly Reader and People Magazine?
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)American journalism at its best
Robb
(39,665 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)but I have a feeling that this is all about marketing and what sells the magazine. It could be that Americans are stupid because they are shallow and would not be tempted to buy the newsworthy cover. Many are uninformed on purpose.
pscot
(21,023 posts)keep the sheep from looking up.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)Stupid people demand coverage they can understand ...
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...don't ya know?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Here it is:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2100102,00.html
It was a feature story in the US version with the anxiety cover.
Same information about Egypt was available to all readers of Time.
The author of the article was an American who is now a Washington Post bureau chief.
George II
(67,782 posts)"This week"? Is there a reason why you're posting a link to an article, and Time covers, from two years ago?
Those covers are from August and December 2011, and the Daily Kos article you're linking is from November 2011.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)They're down to 79,000 copies per week now. Down 50% in 10 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_magazine#Circulation