TIME Magazine's U.S. & World Covers This Week Offer Stunning Contrast

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/02/1259682/-TIME-Magazine-s-U-S-World-Covers-This-Week-Offer-Stunning-Contrast




Yes, what you see is TIME devoting its cover in international markets to a critical moment in world diplomacy – one of the most important diplomatic moments in a decade – while offering Americans a rather banal topic about which the gun lobby is certainly cheering.

As I've noted before, TIME has a history of tempting the world with critical events, ideas or figures, while dangling before Americans the chance to indulge in trite self-absorption or topics of questionable importance.

[a kennedy]

1. and that's why no one cares about the printed magazine anymore except People.

[Orrex]

2. People don't care about the printed magazines anymore either.

Oh, wait.