I subscribed to a special $1.99 for six issues of Time magazine. It was a total waste of money.
The first issue I reveived was a biased global warming send up. It was horrible. It was not hard news, it was opinion, meant to scare people and push a political agena I cancelled it. Look at the opening to the cover storty.
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
Subtle, huh?
Granted, some of the ideas they come up with to combat global warming, from using compact flourescent light bulbs to keeping your tires inflated for proper gas mileage are terrific ideas, but they are buried behind these political leaning stories.
And those stories, letters to the editor and 'opinion pieces' all have a political slant. some of the letters chosen for publication were downright hateful and disrespectful.
Time used to be relevant. With the advent of a 24-hour news cycle and from competition from more competent mags, Time revamped a month ago or so. There is a new format, new fonts, new features. But what is left is the same tired political agenda, and its readers are the same tired political hacks.
Gone is hard news; hello political magazine.
I find nothing wrong with political mags. There is a place in this workd for tomes like "The Nation", "The Weekly Standard" and "Reason". But don't try to mascarade "Time" as hard news anymore.
That aside, I do not even like the new format. The layout is cumbersome, the font is hard to read and hard on the eyes. There are also too many advertisements.
Time is past it's prime and, like an old sick dog, should just be put out of its misery.
If you think that "Time" is too big a name to go the way of the Dodo? (which went extinct way before global warming) look at what happened to "Life"
