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2007-03-13 Home Front Economy

With Redesign of Time, Sentences Run Forward

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 IOW, go YOUTUBE + BLOGNEWS, etc. in America + West, save the paper editions for the Third World.
WORLDNEWS + NEWSMAX > AL GORE > TV WILL SAVE DEMOCRACY [and vice verseys].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-13 02:03|| 2007-03-13 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Declined the circulation of the magazine, as elsewhere went the readers.

Posted by Mike 2007-03-13 06:05|| 2007-03-13 06:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Now, will somebody fix the problems with The New Yorker?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-03-13 07:29|| 2007-03-13 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't even bother reading it any more... and I get it for free, through a co-worker. I swap my un-opened Guardian Weekly issues (it's a gift subscription from an old friend) for his issues of Time... which I don't even bother to read either. (Actually, I kinda wonder if my friend even reads the Guardian. He takes off the plastic cover, anyway.)
It just all seems like old news... I've already read about what's been going on, over and over. Reading Time or Newsweek just seems totally pointless, these days.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-03-13 07:56|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-03-13 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Reading Time or Newsweek just seems totally pointless, these days.

Yeah, everything worthwhile in them was in People the prior week.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-13 08:07|| 2007-03-13 08:07|| Front Page Top

#6 "Yeah, everything worthwhile in them was in People the prior week."
*chortle*
(That's gonna leave a mark, NS!)

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-03-13 08:43|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-03-13 08:43|| Front Page Top

#7 at least Denny's Saturday Bobbies would increase circulation - in parts

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-13 09:24|| 2007-03-13 09:24|| Front Page Top

#8 er.....Boobies

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-13 09:25|| 2007-03-13 09:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Their main problem? It's week old news. No matter what they do, that's not gonna change. I'm not gonna spend 3 bucks or whatever it is for their take on week old news.

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-13 10:59|| 2007-03-13 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Time needs to change its news philosophy in the direction of what is working in the media.

First and foremost, their "discovery to print" time has to be reduced to the bare bones.

Time has the old, bad habit of "over editing", having each article reviewed by countless individuals as a collective effort, which squeezes all the life out of it. Journalism by super committee. 1 reporter with 50 editors, instead of the other way around.

Time has also lost so much market share that for the time being, they need to reintroduce themselves to their target demographic. That is, Time needs to get itself into as many high school classes in the country as it can--as a working document.

It sounds like an odd suggestion, wanting your material to be taken and re-used by thousands of high school kids every day. To have these kids pour over every inch of your magazine looking for information they can re-write and turn into class projects.

And this does not mean "writing down" to high school level, but getting them current events data they can use.

The important part is getting the magazine into their hands and getting them to read it. The results will be seen just five years later when they still want to keep up with the news.

This list of changes goes on and on. But in that Time's other alternative is oblivion, what choice do they have? Given their track record, they will choose to give up.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-13 11:10|| 2007-03-13 11:10|| Front Page Top

#11 News reporting continues to move to electronic distribution. Print reporting will continue to decline and print publications will continue to move to providing analysis and opinions.

The market willing to pay for opinion and analysis is not large enough to support all the publications currently in existence, and the number of publications is shrinking. In a rational market the number would be plummeting, but many magazines and newspapers are being kept alive by wealthy patrons willing to spend their wealth on influence.

Posted by DoDo 2007-03-13 11:46|| 2007-03-13 11:46|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't know about other school kids, Anonymoose, but over the years when the trailing daughters have had current events or in-depth assignments, they've gone straight to Google and the internet. Shoot, they go to Dictionary.com to look up words, not the three paper dictionaries in the bookcase three feet to the left of the computer desk. I really don't think they'd be interested in a week-old Time magazine as a source, unless required by the teacher.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-13 15:15|| 2007-03-13 15:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Not to mention their extreme lefty slant on everything. I haven't bought a Time or Newsweek magazine in twenty years, never plan on buying either one again, and won't even read articles in Real Clear Politics that originate in Time or Newsweek. Their POV is lefty pablum for people with double-digit IQs or severe BDS.

When they both go out of business it will be a good day. It will be a better one when the NYT follows them.

Posted by Mac 2007-03-13 18:14|| 2007-03-13 18:14|| Front Page Top

#14 The move eliminated copies that were going to places like doctors offices where they were not necessarily wanted, and it reduced the rates that advertisers had to pay.

The only time I ever read it is when I'm stuck in a doctor's or dentist's office.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-03-13 18:33|| 2007-03-13 18:33|| Front Page Top

#15 You are so right EB6305. Problem is, the copy I pick up always seems to be full of ads for the 1998 Camry. Nice to see Billy is still POTUS.

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