Time Magazine printing profanity

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I was in my doctor’s office and was reading the August 18, 2016 issue of Time. I saw profanity I could not post here. Another example of the media coarsening the culture, and providing reinforcement to a broader media culture that is pushing profanity in other ways.

So long, Time.

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edwest2 said:
I was in my doctor’s office and was reading the August 18, 2016 issue of Time. I saw profanity I could not post here. Another example of the media coarsening the culture, and providing reinforcement to a broader media culture that is pushing profanity in other ways.

So long, Time.

Ed
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Have t read this one for awhile. US news Report, Newsweek and others are doing the same so don’t subscribe to any, but as far as profanity goes, comments on Facebook and Tweets on Twitter are much worse than that.
 
My father had a subscription to time for over 30 years. One day he wrote them and told them to cancel his subscription, upset that their reporting had gotten so biased. (daddy LOVED the news)
The president of Time Inc. called him.
Asked why…my dad explained his reason, and the man said they were upset to lose such a loyal reader.
My dad told him to restore integrity to their reporting and he would have no problem being a reader for life.

End of phone call. I guess we know how it turned out. 😊
 
edwest2 said:
I was in my doctor’s office and was reading the August 18, 2016 issue of Time. I saw profanity I could not post here. Another example of the media coarsening the culture, and providing reinforcement to a broader media culture that is pushing profanity in other ways.

So long, Time.

Ed
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Really!? That is where you think Time has gone wrong!? They have been profane for years with the type of journalism they promote.

Time has been obsolete for a long time. Don’t really have a problem with profanity though.
 
utah_rose said:
Have t read this one for awhile. US news Report, Newsweek and others are doing the same so don’t subscribe to any, but as far as profanity goes, comments on Facebook and Tweets on Twitter are much worse than that.
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Newsweek doesn’t exist as a print magazine anymore, and as far as I can tell, Time is only read by people in waiting rooms. “News” magazine circulation is so poor that I don’t think they’re in any position to coarsen the culture, just reflect it. Agree that “social media” is becoming the great engine of cultural deterioration, and lowest common denominator thinking. That, and the Kardashians.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
Newsweek doesn’t exist as a print magazine anymore, and as far as I can tell, Time is only read by people in waiting rooms. “News” magazine circulation is so poor that I don’t think they’re in any position to coarsen the culture, just reflect it. Agree that “social media” is becoming the great engine of cultural deterioration, and lowest common denominator thinking. That, and the Kardashians.
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I agree that this is a reflection of the culture. Sad but true.
 
The Economist used several instances of the ‘f-bomb’ in its article on the Philippine caudillo recently.
 
MaryT777 said:
I agree that this is a reflection of the culture. Sad but true.
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Reflection of a culture so vulgar it’s unbelievable!
I have seen profanity on front covers of magazines! Things like “Bad@$$” and other supposedly “disguised” words censored with hashtags and all of that, and I just think… what have we come to! It’s awful, really. Also, I blame it on younger writers. Unfortunately, decent has died out. Make room for the vulgar sickies shoving their way in.
 
Define “Profanity”. St. Paul used the Greek equivalent of the S word in Philippians 3:8
 
edwest2 said:
I was in my doctor’s office and was reading the August 18, 2016 issue of Time. I saw profanity I could not post here. Another example of the media coarsening the culture, and providing reinforcement to a broader media culture that is pushing profanity in other ways.

So long, Time.

Ed
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Have you ever read a novel by the Roman Catholic priest, Father Greeley. Father Greeley has used the most filthy language imaginable in his novels, which BTW, were written some time ago.
 
Have you ever read the Bible in Greek? It definitely wasn’t “rubbish” that St. Paul considered all things…
 
edwest2 said:
I was in my doctor’s office and was reading the August 18, 2016 issue of Time. I saw profanity I could not post here. Another example of the media coarsening the culture, and providing reinforcement to a broader media culture that is pushing profanity in other ways.

So long, Time.

Ed
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Makes you wonder whose money is propping up this liberal rubbish that is drowning in red ink…
 
pianistclare said:
My father had a subscription to time for over 30 years. One day he wrote them and told them to cancel his subscription, upset that their reporting had gotten so biased. (daddy LOVED the news)
The president of Time Inc. called him.
Asked why…my dad explained his reason, and the man said they were upset to lose such a loyal reader.
My dad told him to restore integrity to their reporting and he would have no problem being a reader for life.

End of phone call. I guess we know how it turned out. 😊
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Time used to be a great read. Insightful, but now…

Ed
 
Hoosier_Daddy said:
Can you give me a timeframe in which you think time was insightful and a great read?
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I’m not the person to whom you directed the question, but I do have an observation in response: I saved copies of Time for the weeks following St. John XXIII’s death in 1963, and also for the weeks following JFK’s death later that year. I recently found them and spent some time going over them. In comparison with the last couple of copies of Time that I recently read (dentist’s office), it was like the difference between a college textbook (1963), versus something for attention-span-challenged junior high kids (2016). Articles much shorter, little analysis, party-line influenced, lots of splashy graphics, clearly influenced by digital formatting, reading level clearly “dumbed down.” Fewer columnists. Much less analysis. So somewhere in that timespan, Time - along with much of print media - clearly devolved.
 
edwest2 said:
I’ll have to drop The Economist as well.

Surprising about this pub. My husband used to subscribe to it years ago, but it was very expensive. I think most or the print news industry is failing. Most people go online now. Not saying that all of that is always true though.

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Tarpeian_Rock said:
I’m not the person to whom you directed the question, but I do have an observation in response: I saved copies of Time for the weeks following St. John XXIII’s death in 1963, and also for the weeks following JFK’s death later that year. I recently found them and spent some time going over them. In comparison with the last couple of copies of Time that I recently read (dentist’s office), it was like the difference between a college textbook (1963), versus something for attention-span-challenged junior high kids (2016). Articles much shorter, little analysis, party-line influenced, lots of splashy graphics, clearly influenced by digital formatting, reading level clearly “dumbed down.” Fewer columnists. Much less analysis. So somewhere in that timespan, Time - along with much of print media - clearly devolved.
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The bottom line is news has become “infotainment.” Walter Cronkite, a former mainstay of TV news, referred to the tabloidization of the media in an interview on the Larry King Show not that long ago.

The media is degrading on purpose - for a purpose. News has been replaced by fragments and slogans. Based on my research, it’s primary purpose now is issue advocacy. It promotes what its owners want promoted and ignores or is insensitive to other things. And years ago, when laws were in place that allowed large corporations to only own a limited amount of media entities: newspapers, magazines, books and other information resources - powerful people changed things. Only six global corporations control the media now.

The media is, with the occasional “nice” story, now the new voice of those who have propaganda to sell. Because, after all, “they” would never lie to us. Sorry, folks. But propaganda is not something that just happens in other countries.

Ed
 
edwest2 said:
The bottom line is news has become “infotainment.” Walter Cronkite, a former mainstay of TV news, referred to the tabloidization of the media in an interview on the Larry King Show not that long ago.

The media is degrading on purpose - for a purpose. News has been replaced by fragments and slogans. Based on my research, it’s primary purpose now is issue advocacy. It promotes what its owners want promoted and ignores or is insensitive to other things. And years ago, when laws were in place that allowed large corporations to only own a limited amount of media entities: newspapers, magazines, books and other information resources - powerful people changed things. Only six global corporations control the media now.

The media is, with the occasional “nice” story, now the new voice of those who have propaganda to sell. Because, after all, “they” would never lie to us. Sorry, folks. But propaganda is not something that just happens in other countries.

Ed
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Yes, they literally control what is news and what is not…that is an incredibly powerful position to be in, IMO, its one way our Govt has found to ‘get around’ some of the nations founding principles. If you control the media, given enough time, they can shape and change the country to whatever they desire.
 
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