Deep Impact

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1. “It was very clear that the internet was going to be a huge part of the future of media. But for most of the time I was there [at TIME], people treated it as a nuisance. It was a problem to be solved, not an opportunity.”

   – Albert Kim

2. Interesting. The glory days were misogynist and no one paid attention to the internet. Nothing to do with it being a special liberal rag tied to a special dial-up. No admissions of culpability with the exception of Albert Kim’s lament over paparazzi photos. He couldn’t see that People Magazine was a Tabloid.

   After interviewing all of these key players and finding nothing insightful, Sridhar Pappu and Jay Stowe vacantly publish without any sense of irony.

   Times anyone…. anyone?

3. When my Mom passed in 1995 she had in her basement over 25 years of every copy of Time magazine.
   After wood was added so it would burn It was a surprising pleasure to watch it all turn to ash in a pit.
   Why are smart guys like the Koch bros. getting involved in this?

4. I remember reading an article, in TIME magazine, many years ago saying the internet was just a passing fad. I also recall Dan Rather saying basically the same thing. And we all know who and what brought him down.

5. I have “0” Free Articles remaining. That has never stopped me from commenting before.

6. What a puff piece! No mention of the left wing bias driving readers away in droves. Just happy snapshots of when people actually believed them.

   1. Exactly.

      I had a subscription for a few years in the 90s until I realized that the magazine was nothing but a liberal mouthpiece. In the paraphrased words of Vladimir Lenin, “Into the dustbin of history with this rag.”

      No doubt the onset of the internet also played a big part in the demise.

      1. So true! It is difult to research when TIME undertook a left-wing tilt – since even the Wiki entry refusse to discus this. I grew up reading TIME, in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was a moderately concervative publication. I think to turn lefty when the Luce family sold the publication. By then I stopped reading it. Needless to not a word of this in the posted NYT article.

7. I enjoyed reading this for its confirmation of something learned as I age > We are all prisoners of our past. TIME people could not get an objective, insightful grasp on the digital era and how to deal with it as an opportunity instead of a problem. If we pay close attention we are now watching the current = old generation of elected politicians failing to get an objective, insightful grasp of ‘electoral politics’ in the Trump era and beyond. Old guard politicos are being replaced by a wave of techno-savvy communicators / persuaders like Trump. Canada’s Andrew Scheer is NOT one of them and Ontario’s Doug Ford is barely one of them, but closer to it than any other current Canadian politician. I’m enjoying the slow motion train wreck of an entire generation of pontificating political gasbags being replaced by crisp 140-character declarations made directly to me, unfiltered / untwisted by the media and unencumbered by a truck-load of ‘weasel words’.

8. The epitaph for Time magazine: “The Peasants were Revolting”.

9. It appears there was … A LOT … of drinking going on at TIME (and TIME-WARNER). That explains a lot.

10. What stood out to me in the article were the number of references to “fact checkers”. When you stop checking and reporting facts then all that is left is the opinion of the writer with all his political bias and social constructs.

    Quite obvious that ain’t what people want to pay money for.

11. A fitting eulogy for Time Mag:

    “Time, time time, see what’s become of me
    While I looked around for my possibilities

    I was so hard to please
    Don’t look around
    The leaves are brown
    And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

    Hear the Salvation Army band
    Down by the riverside’s, there’s bound to be a better ride
    Than what you’ve got planned

    Carry your cup in your hand
    And look around
    Leaves are brown, now
    And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.”

    Simon and Garfunkle: “Hazy Shade of Winter”