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applegrove

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Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:29 AM Jan 2025

Time Staffers Freaking Out [View all]

Time Staffers Freaking Out

January 7, 2025 at 9:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/07/time-staffers-freaking-out/

"SNIP............

Time magazine staffers “have grown increasingly unhappy” about owner Marc Benioff’s “public embrace of the incoming president,” the San Francisco Standard reports.

Said one former staffer: “When you’re inside, it’s pretty clear that … their subscription model is in complete shambles. And one thing that is very clear is that it’s no longer a journalism outlet. It’s just sort of a glorified corporate brochure.”

.............SNIP"

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Time Staffers Freaking Out [View all] applegrove Jan 2025 OP
"Sort of a glorified corporate brochure" sop Jan 2025 #1
I read it too. applegrove Jan 2025 #2
I subscribed to Newsweek in the 2000s. It had some good writers and information. Then it changed hands a few times and.. themaguffin Jan 2025 #3
Unfortunately, that describes about 90% (or more) of mainstream media right now. nt CousinIT Jan 2025 #7
THIS malaise Jan 2025 #12
Much of media today is glorified Republican propaganda. Lonestarblue Jan 2025 #4
Time was founded by Henry Luce, who was a sort of Rupert Murdoch of his day Prairie Gates Jan 2025 #5
Luce may have used multi syllable words... Hugin Jan 2025 #6
Luce was very well-educated and started out as a "newsman" to some degree Prairie Gates Jan 2025 #8
Luce headlined "Who lost China?" during Truman admin. Grins Jan 2025 #19
Good grief, Time and Newsweek turned a long time ago! ananda Jan 2025 #9
People don't know what being left Farmer-Rick Jan 2025 #20
You got that right! ananda Jan 2025 #21
Luce corruption evident from November 22, 1963 Kid Berwyn Jan 2025 #10
So . . . AverageOldGuy Jan 2025 #11
Yes. Kid Berwyn Jan 2025 #16
There is no room for journalism going forward quakerboy Jan 2025 #13
"Glorified corp brochure." Along with Newsweek, USA today, and all of the m$m. PortTack Jan 2025 #14
"...A glorified corporate brochure"...they got that right! I remember... keep_left Jan 2025 #15
Nothing is safe from these fucking assholes! Initech Jan 2025 #17
Thank god for The New Yorker! bif Jan 2025 #18
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