TIME Magazine hasn’t been important for years. After all, Donald Trump managed to keep a fake TIME magazine cover featuring himself hanging on his golf course clubhouse walls for years — and nobody noticed. Who cares who is on the cover of TIME? It’s a bit like discovering that a retired actor, or politician, or writer is still alive — who knew?<\/p>\n
What do you know? From its heyday as one of the world’s most important news outlets, to the dysfunctional merger of TIME-Warner and AOL, to its quick-flip acquisition by an Iowa media company with no background in news to, now, its purchase by a tech billionaire who knows nothing whatever of publishing or news gathering. It’s sad, embarrassing, vaguely reminiscent of the heroic sled dog Balto’s eventual poor treatment in vaudeville.<\/p>\n
It’s time to stop milking the name and allow TIME Magazine to go off to a dignified retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TIME Magazine hasn’t been important for years. After all, Donald Trump managed to keep a fake TIME magazine cover featuring himself hanging on his golf course clubhouse walls for years — and nobody noticed. Who cares who is on the … Continue reading