३० ऑगस्ट, २०१०

"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. 

२४ टिप्पण्या:

Clyde म्हणाले...

Nah, Kurt Cobain's been dead for years.

Unknown म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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

अनामित म्हणाले...

"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 म्हणाले...

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

*waves fingers*

We can go about our business.

Move along.

David म्हणाले...

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

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

अनामित म्हणाले...

Let me be the first to say it:

Their appeal is now more ... selective.

Wince म्हणाले...

Boy, they've got some nirvana.

joewxman म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

obviously just one of many.....

Unknown म्हणाले...

"hit the zeitgeist"

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

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

If Joe Klein is there. its not Nirvana.

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

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

No wonder it sold for a dollar.

Hagar म्हणाले...

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

jungatheart म्हणाले...

'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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

Casey Stengel would be a better editor.

And he has been dead for forty years.

BJM म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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 म्हणाले...

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