Magazine conference gets political

[UpInArms]

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BCAE6D136%2DE16C%2D44E1%2DBA87%2D9FF344137C67%7D&siteid=mktw

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS.MW) -- The Magazine Publishers of America annual meeting just got political.

The trade association is seeking to impose an "off the record" arrangement with reporters when Time magazine Managing Editor James Kelly interviews former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday morning. This means that the journalists on the scene, if they have agreed to the terms, wouldn't be able to report on Clinton's remarks.

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The presidential campaign intruded further when it was discovered that Vice President Dick Cheney, like Clinton, was staying overnight Monday at the Boca Raton Resort and Club, the same venue where conference was taking place.

The hotel guests who returned to the hotel after dinner on Monday night faced the prospect of having rental cars searched thoroughly by police and security personnel of all stripes -- as well as the surreal spectacle of having bomb-sniffing dogs helping to complete what agents on the scene called a "sweep" of the vehicles.

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[MasonJar]

1. I don't believe anything that Time says.

[UpInArms]

2. I agree, MasonJar, we cancelled our subscription

to Time several months back.

Every week when it arrived in my mailbox, I became furious at the spin that they put on everything.

:puke:

[Voltaire99]

3. Time is utterly useless. Instead, get Harper's Magazine.

You'll love it.

[Voltaire99]

4. Clinton praises both Bushes at conference

Unlike Jimmy Carter, Clinton hasn't found his tongue, apparently. Pity; we won't get anywhere being nice about these fascists.


From the CBS piece:

"Clinton had kind words for President George Herbert Walker Bush, whom he defeated in 1992, and measured praise for the doggedness and common sense of his son, President George W. Bush -- though he did lament that Bush backers have turned the election campaign into a "culture war" in which one might think guns, gay marriage and partial-birth abortions were the only issues of import."

[progressivebydesign]

5. WHY does Cheney... happen to be there??? party crasher! n/t