Time's Cox Guffaws at Romney Gaffes, Ignores Obama's '10,000 People Di
Time.com Washington Editor Ana Marie Cox directed "Swampland" blog readers to a compendium of Mitt Romney gaffes in a post entitled "Gaffe-a-Minute Mitt," calling it "The missing sidebar to Karen's cover story on the Mittster." Cox was referring to Karen Tumulty's May 10 article, "What Romney Believes."The link takes the reader to a Cox-compiled "top ten" list of the former Massachusetts…
Time Magazine: 'Murdoch vs. Family-Owned Newspapers
Time magazine came out swinging last week against Rupert Murdoch for his offer to buy the Wall Street Journal. In an article titled "Murdoch vs. Family-Owned Newspapers", Time painted a picture of Murdoch as a "controversial genius" who used his company for power and profit, swooping in to take over a family business where the owners "have made use of dual-class stock structures that allow them…
Time's Bush-Excluding Top 100 Includes Staff-Written Puff Pieces for O
Time magazine's list of "The Most Influential People in the World," or the Time 100, has already earned controversy for implausibly leaving President Bush off the list. But in a magazine stuffed with valentines to important people written by their friends, admirers, and family members, Time's staff writers promoted Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as not only influential, but naturally moderate.…
Time Magazine’s ‘Top 100’ Most Influential List Snubs President
Is there any better indication of how biased a publication is than who it perceives to be the most influential people in the world?If such is indeed the case, Time magazine has given us quite a glimpse into its predilections with its annual “100 People Who Shape Our World” list.Most notably, although he is the most powerful man on the planet, and his nation is in the middle of a war on terror…
Joe Klein Slams Bush Carrier Landing, Says Rumsfeld Should Empty Bedpa
One great thing about liberal journalists blogging is that without the constraints of editorial oversight, they can let their hair down even more than usual, unleashing their biases as fast as their fingers fly over the keyboard.Time magazine's Joe Klein is no exception. The journalist and formerly anonymous author of "Primary Colors" shared with readers of the "Swampland" blog today his…
