Tag Archives: Time Magazine

TIME Names Advocate’s June Issue As A Top Ten Cover For 2009

TIME Magazine has named the Advocate’s June 7th issue as one of the ten best magazine covers of 2009. This clever and hilarious cover either consciously or unconsciously pays homage to the famous painting The Scream by Edvard Munch. The article it sells is about how the recession has affected the porn industry — hard times indeed! The photo suggests, …

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The Decade From Hell

Dubya, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, Wall Street. TIME Magazine gets it right when they call the aughties “the decade from hell.” Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World …

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Time-Warner Selling Time Inc

One of Time-Warner’s biggest shareholders has revealed that the company is planning to spin off its namesake magazine publishing unit. “Time Warner just spun off their cable division, they are going to sell their print division, they are going to spin off AOL and they’re just going to be Warner Brothers, HBO and the Turner Networks,” said Crawford, managing director …

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Jon Stewart – Most Trusted Newscaster

A TIME Magazine poll shows that Jon Stewart is America’s most-trusted newscaster, now that Walter Cronkite has died. Personally, I’d put him neck-and-neck with Rachel Maddow. Brian Williams comes in second, winning the retiree-heavy states of Arizona and Florida.

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The World’s Most Influential Person…

…is Christopher Poole, aka “Moot”, the 21 year-old founder of 4chan.org, the bulletin board home of hackers worldwide. This according to TIME Magazine, who swears that their online poll was totally not hacked by 4chan. Yeah. Christopher Poole received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack …

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TIME Hates Facebook’s 25 Things Meme

In another one of those items that Gawker always derides as “trend pieces”, TIME Magazine’s Claire Suddath takes on the latest Facebook meme, that “25 Things About Me” bit that so many of you have done. And she hates it. Facebook’s “25 Things About Me” meme seems harmless enough; people write 25 facts about themselves and post them on their …

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TIME’s Person Of The Year Selection Causes Millions To Say “Well, Duh”

Seriously, who else could it have been? From the story: [I]f he has shown anything this year, Obama has made it clear that he knows how to write new playbooks and do things in new ways. Which is a compelling quality right now. His arrival on the scene feels like a step into the next century — his genome is …

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Tainted Gov

The most accidentally funny headline of the day comes from TIME Magazine. (Via – Wonkette)

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Time Magazine Calls It For Obama

Time Magazine has called the nomination race for Barack Obama, but hedges their headline with “Really, we’re pretty sure his time.” I’ve only got the cover so far and can’t find the supporting story on their site. Meanwhile, Hillary’s campaign manager is quoted today as saying, “I don’t see it going to the convention. I think the superdelegates are going …

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Vladmir Putin: Person Of The Year 2007

Russia president Vladimir Putin has been named Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year. Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech. He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen …

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Time Magazine:
Top Ten Awkward Moments Of 2007

10. Facebook profile reveals Giuliani’s daughter supports Obama. 9. Miss South Carolina talks about geography. 8. Sally Field gets bleeped during the Emmys. 7. Rosie calls out Elizabeth on The View. 6. Britney Spears sleep-clomps the MTV Awards. 5. Sen. David Vitter’s name found on DC Madam’s list. 4. David Hasselhoff’s daughter films him hammered. 3. Alec Baldwin rips into …

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Time’s 5 Worst Websites

Time Magazine has listed their Top 5 Worst Websites of 2007, so chosen because of cluttered homepages, clunky interfaces, slow loading time, and intrusive advertising. Time’s shitlist: 1. eHarmony2. Evite3. Meez4. MySpace5. Second Life Their Top 50 Best Sites list includes LastFM (love it!), StumbleUpon (meh), Twitter (yawn), YouTube (indispensable) and about 46 other sites I’ve never heard of.

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Rosie Makes Time’s Top 100

Rosie O’Donnell has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. I’d been more impressed if the list didn’t include such opinion makers and shakers as Kate Blanchett and Justin Timberlake. But still, we have an out, angry, politically active gay person on the list and that makes me happy.

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