৩০ আগস্ট, ২০১০

"We have the nirvana that people are looking for."

Says Rick Stengel, the managing editor of Time Magazine.

Eh... I think I'll look for the nirvana that you can't look for. That seems more nirvana-y. 

২৪টি মন্তব্য:

Clyde বলেছেন...

Nah, Kurt Cobain's been dead for years.

Unknown বলেছেন...

They have the nirvana they've been looking for, everybody else is stuck between levels 4 and 8 of The Inferno.

I'm Full of Soup বলেছেন...

From Howie Kurtz' story:

"And Stengel, a speechwriter for Bill Bradley's presidential campaign, has no prominent conservative to balance liberal columnist Joe Klein."

Too funny Howie - as if Joe Klein is all the liberal they got.

blake বলেছেন...

Well, since Nirvana is a state of non-existence, I suppose that's apt.

নামহীন বলেছেন...

"After being locked for decades in a Coke-Pepsi race, Time and Newsweek both decided to downsize."

Yes, they just woke up one day and decided to slash their revenue.

They wanted to focus more on the quality of the dollars people gave them, not the quantity.

Paddy O বলেছেন...

That's not the nirvana we've been looking for.

*waves fingers*

We can go about our business.

Move along.

David বলেছেন...

"Rick Stengel may have his shoulder in a sling . . . "

Guy can't tell his ass from his shoulder, right?

নামহীন বলেছেন...

Let me be the first to say it:

Their appeal is now more ... selective.

Wince বলেছেন...

Boy, they've got some nirvana.

joewxman বলেছেন...

thin may be in...but in time's case its so sad to watch someone who is no longer relevant scream loudly to get attention above the crowd. And who but the equally irrelavant washington post to call attention to this. One dead tree talks to another.

I'm Full of Soup বলেছেন...

Joe:

That's a good one. Made me think ...If one dead tree business talks about another dead tree business, does anyone hear it?


wv = bries [what Julian Assange uses to pickup chicks]

Opus One Media বলেছেন...

obviously just one of many.....

নামহীন বলেছেন...

"hit the zeitgeist"

That's just sad. It's like your Dad wearing bellbottoms.

traditionalguy বলেছেন...

Time needs to start its own Swimsuit Edition. The Momma Grizzlies can appear in bikinis to better gauge their 2012 erection, I mean election, power.

KCFleming বলেছেন...

How sad to see a magazine rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Someone please stop TIME before it publishes again.

They shoot horses, don't they?

SteveR বলেছেন...

If Joe Klein is there. its not Nirvana.

Known Unknown বলেছেন...

And Newsweek on the Kindle is still as shitty as the Newsweek on the newsstand.

No wonder it sold for a dollar.

Hagar বলেছেন...

I finally let my Time subscription lapse in 1993, and I was 5 years late then.

jungatheart বলেছেন...

'And Newsweek on the Kindle is still as shitty as the Newsweek on the newsstand.'

In other news, Kindle is down to 139 smackers.

Menahem Globus বলেছেন...

Reminded me of this in more ways than one: http://www.babelgum.com/6000742/the-onion-time-announces-new-version-magazine-aimed-adults.html

Trooper York বলেছেন...

Casey Stengel would be a better editor.

And he has been dead for forty years.

BJM বলেছেন...

Obviously, Stengel slept through English grammar.

Uh-oh...he throws in an Althouse bête noir as well: "since we were in short pants,"

Paul Kirchner বলেছেন...

Time adopted what Stengel calls "reported analysis," stories with a clear point of view -- often left of center -- that were rooted in shoe-leather work. Newsweek, which moved more sharply left, bet the ranch last year on more opinionated essays and columns -- and lost.

But evidently "left" is still the way to go, circulation be damned.

Methadras বলেছেন...

This would be awesome if someone did this ala Obi Wan Kenobi, "These aren't the Nirvana's you are looking for."