Why does Time Magazine not want Americans to know about

[Robb]

... TINTIN??

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. The 1% love Family Circus and fear the internationally beloved TINTIN.

Or...does the "America's Silent Majority" story appear in the US issue as well as the others?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Only in the US one

and the cover was different too

[Robb]

4. It was in the US edition as well. And Joe Klein was all over the morning shows.

My point is it's probably misleading to draw a conclusion from a single week's covers. Witness:

[Blissful Monkey]

9. I agree that one week's cover does not a concern make.

However, there are several:



http://imgur.com/gallery/W2Y5u

[Quantess]

11. Very telling.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Blissful Monkey]

12. Thank you!

I found out about it through some Occupy friends.

[Robb]

14. That is a misleading representation, selecting only weeks

...where there is the same cover on the Europe, Asia and South Pacific editions. That is no more common than, say, Europe and South Pacific editions being the same.

[Blissful Monkey]

16. I see your point. I just happened upon the link from another blog site.

To be honest, I haven't considered TIME a serious, intelligent or influential magazine for many years. Regardless of their cover choices.

That being said, I don't think there is too great an effort from any mainstream publisher to get serious analysis of important issues to US consumers.

[Wind Dancer]

17. TIME has been doing that for years.

Great post and welcome to DU!

[sabrina 1]

23. Good post, thank you.

[Zorra]

27. That is disturbing. Thanks. Welcome to DU.

:hi:

[uppityperson]

3. That is just wrong. I love Tintin. Here's link to the story

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2097373,00.html

[likesmountains 52]

5. My 28 year old son and I are planning on seeing this the day it opens here.

He could not get enough of Tintin when he was a kid.

[SidDithers]

6. I'm a huge Simon Pegg fan...

but has Tintin ever really caught on in North America?

Still going to go see it, tho :)

Sid

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. I'm not entirely sure most people in the U.S. know who Tintin is.

I learned about Tintin when I moved abroad and met a Belgian guy. Prior to that, I had no clue.

[WinkyDink]

21. "most"? How about almost ZERO??! The character simply is IRRELEVANT to American culture.

And I've been more than a few times to France and Belgium.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Its release date is Dec. 21. I'm going to go see 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' that day!

Daniel Craig plays Mikael Blomkvist! I cannot wait to see this U.S. version! It should be excellent. :)

Who or what is TinTin? I have never heard of him/it/her/them.

[treestar]

10. Are the contents different or just the cover?

It may say more about what attracts readers in the different areas.

[hedgetrimmer]

18. No! google time magazine europe and you will ...

have different covers that when clicked on will allow you to see the articles from the different regions.

[MilesColtrane]

13. Well played, sir.

:applause:

[Scurrilous]

15. LOL

:thumbsup:

[Bonobo]

19. I love reactionary passive aggressive OPs. Well done, sir! nt

[Robb]

22. I prefer reactionary, passive-aggressive replies.

Although only slightly.

[Bonobo]

24. Neither are as good as mods violating the spirit of the rules.

Such as not continuing past threads.

[Robb]

25. The rule is against continuing *locked* threads, actually.

But thanks for giving me an opportunity to remind people: if you see a rule violation, please don't assume someone else has hit alert. :patriot:

[Bonobo]

29. Anyway, in the spirit of continuing education, I thought this might help you out.

Since you seem not to understand the meaning of the word and probably thought it just had to do with "reacting" or something...



reactionary or reactionist (rɪˈækʃənərɪ, -ʃənrɪ)

— adj
1. of, relating to, or characterized by reaction, esp against radical political or social change

[Robb]

32. Wow, that's actually very interesting.

If perhaps unconsciously narrow.

While you've got the books open, can you look up "pedant" for me?

[Tobin S.]

26. Well Robb

Being a DU mod doesn't mean that you have to give up your autonomy, as far as this web site goes. But I guess all of us here are supposed to be supporting the Democratic party per the DU rules. That makes it difficult for me to support this site. But I have a lot of friends here who are liberals and I will always stand by them in solidarity.

[WinkyDink]

20. Because the character isn't remotely interesting to Baby Boomers and much less so to kids?

TinTin is, in a word, BORING.

[eShirl]

30. Besides, who would want to go to a Steven Spielberg/ Peter Jackson movie

[eShirl]

28. Just saw the trailer today and it looks AMAZING.

I didn't realize until about 20 seconds in that it's an animated movie.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_adventures_of_tintin/trailers/

[mick063]

31. This guy explains why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF1Ixo_faas&feature=related


So after watching that.......

The big question is if the CEO's, hedge fund managers, and bankers can make peace with a nuclear Pakistan.

I'm sure they will want at least a "WW2" type effort from their citizens if not.

[LoZoccolo]

33. Tintin is not popular here.

Occupy Wall Street, however did occur here.

I don't think that you necessarily have to accuse Time of not wanting people to know about Occupy Wall Street to accuse them of intentionally avoiding it on their cover. There could also be the motive to avoid controversial topics for fear of alienating a segment of their audience, a problem we've seen with other topics in the news. Or just that fear of being accused of being "liberal".

[LoZoccolo]

34. I just realized my mistake.

The Time cover is not of Occupy Wall Street.