STUNNING: Comparing U.S. & World Covers for TIME Magazine

[octoberlib]

Each week, TIME Magazine designs covers for four markets: the U.S., Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. Often, America's cover is quite, well – different. This week offers a stark example.

Witness:

Yes, what you see is TIME devoting its cover in international markets to a critical moment in Egypt's revolution – perhaps the most important global story this week – while offering Americans the chance to contemplate their collective navels (with a rather banal topic and supposition, to boot).
This is not an isolated incident, for perusing TIME's covers reveals countless examples of the publication tempting the world with critical events, ideas or figures, while dangling before Americans the chance to indulge in trite self-absorption.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/25/1039957/-STUNNING-Comparing-U-S-World-Covers-for-TIME-Magazine


Is it any wonder there are so many low information voters? This article is from 2011 but it's still relevant.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Stunning hypocrisy nt

[sendero]

2. Being that Time...

... is part and parcel of the "mainstream media" in this country, you can pretty much rule out any hint of integrity from the get go. No better or worse than Newsweek, CBS, FOX, you name it.

You are not going to get any real useful information or analysis from the mainstream media, period.

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. as I'm sure people know - CNN America is profoundly dumbed down compared to CNN International

As cultural inferior as we all know people of the Middle East to be - why are CNN and BBC's Middle Eastern versions fairly intelligent and reasonably sophisticated - while their versions made for the American public are at their very best a cross between the Weekly Reader and People Magazine?

[Supersedeas]

4. helping maintain US apathy 24/7

American journalism at its best

[Robb]

5. Why does Time Magazine not want Americans to know about

TINTIN??!?!?



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2384126

[Curmudgeoness]

6. I would like to blame Time and the MSM,

but I have a feeling that this is all about marketing and what sells the magazine. It could be that Americans are stupid because they are shallow and would not be tempted to buy the newsworthy cover. Many are uninformed on purpose.

[pscot]

7. Naval gazing

keep the sheep from looking up.

[1-Old-Man]

8. Looks to me like they accommodate the intelligence of the markets

Stupid people demand coverage they can understand ...

[Moonwalk]

9. Well, we Americans are delicate flowers. We have to be protected from ugly truths...

...don't ya know?

[oberliner]

10. The US and Europe/Asia/South Pacific Time magazines all had the same article about Egypt

Here it is:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2100102,00.html

It was a feature story in the US version with the anxiety cover.

Same information about Egypt was available to all readers of Time.

The author of the article was an American who is now a Washington Post bureau chief.

[George II]

11. "Often, America's cover is quite, well – different. This week offers a stark example."

"This week"? Is there a reason why you're posting a link to an article, and Time covers, from two years ago?

Those covers are from August and December 2011, and the Daily Kos article you're linking is from November 2011.

[KurtNYC]

12. Prediction: TIME will cease publication soon

They're down to 79,000 copies per week now. Down 50% in 10 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_magazine#Circulation