Why The Fuck did Time Magazine put Beck on the Cover?

[brettdale]

Why The Fuck did Time Magazine put Beck on the Cover?

[Ian David]

1. Same reason they put Hitler on the cover.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6eonppuEMEo/SWC6Vd8Y6PI/AAAAAAAAE-I/S-p4hUDNQCA/s400/Adolph+Hitler,+Man+of+the+Year+Jan.+2,+1939.jpg

[kelly1mm]

13. + 1. Time often puts people in the news on the cover. Like it of not,

Glen Beck is in the news and being talked about all over the US. Just look at how many threads are here on DU about Beck.

[malletgirl02]

2. Time

I was actually thinking about getting a subscription to Time, but I'm definitely not after them putting Beck on the cover. How am I supposed to take that magazine seriously?

[IDemo]

3. Person of the Weak?

[Fridays Child]

10. Heh.

Good one! :thumbsup:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. so we could go throw darts at it.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Because America is all about coddling bigots and idiots.

[DainBramaged]

6. They figured a few hundred thousand Freepers would buy it for the bathroom

instead of Playboy.........

[vixengrl]

7. When we got this week's Time in the mail, my husband pulled

the cover off before handing the magazine to me.

"I don't want to look at that guy's face," he said.

[Treo]

8. To make money? NT

[appamado amata padam]

9. "I'm a loser, Baby...

...so why don't you kill me?"

[madeline_con]

11. The article shows Beck as an insincere Barum style huckster.

From the Time article:

As melodrama, it's thumping good stuff. But as politics, it's sort of a train wreck — at once powerful, spellbinding and uncontrolled. Like William Jennings Bryan whipping up populist Democrats over moneyed interests or the John Birch Society brooding over fluoride, Beck mines the timeless theme of the corrupt Them thwarting a virtuous Us. This flexible narrative often contains genuinely uncomfortable truths. Some days "they" are the unconfirmed policy "czars" whom Beck fears Obama is using to subvert constitutional government — and he has some radical-sounding sound bites to back it up. Some days "they" are the network of leftist community organizers known as ACORN — and his indictment of the group is looking stronger every day. But he also spins yarns of less substance. He tells his viewers that Obama's volunteerism efforts are really an attempt to create a "civilian national-security force that is just as strong, just as powerful as the military." While scourging Obama and the Democratic Congress, Beck takes pains to say that the ranks of the nation's would-be oppressors know no party.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1924348-3,00.html
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From a critique of the author:


Time Magazine Loves Glenn Beck (Again)
Posted by Charles Kaiser on Friday, September 18, 2009

You see, even though Von Drehle’s piece was–ostensibly–a profile of a media figure–von Drehele is not interested in writing “media journalism,” the kind in which you actually try to evaulate the person you’re writing about.

Von Drehle’s total lack of interest in actual facts is briskly displayed in the very first paragraph of his profile, describing the tea party in Washington last weekend, which was largely the result of Beck’s six-month-long on-air organizing effort for what he called his “9/12 project.”

“If you get your information from liberal sources, the crowd numbered about 70,000, many of them greedy racists,” Von Drehle wrote. “If you get your information from conservative sources, the crowd was hundreds of thousands strong, perhaps as many as a million, and the tenor was peaceful and patriotic.”

Members of the Washington, D.C., Fire Department will no doubt be delighted to be identified as a “liberal source,” since they originated the crowd estimate of 70,000 people. As for the higher crowd estimates, the biggest one, of 1.2 million, was simply invented by Matt Kibbe, president of Freedom Works, one of the protest’s main organizers. Kibbe announced from the stage that ABC News had reported the 1.2 million figure. This led to an e-mail to news outlets from ABC, very shortly thereafter, pointing out that the network had never done any such thing–but instead had relied on those “liberal” firemen who offered the lower 60,000 to 70,000 figure. But you would never know any of that from reading Time.

http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/blog/time-magazine-loves-glenn-beck-again

[underpants]

14. 1. get to a mic and announce it 2. let anyone who dare say different be seen as a nay-sayer

This is straight from Edward Barnays


10 minutes well spent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLFMIdMv2c

[Gabi Hayes]

17. Bernays, Freud's nephew. check this:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bender2.html

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized… "

So opens Propaganda (1928), one of several strikingly frank analyses of western social psychology written by Edward Bernays. This nephew of Sigmund Freud founded the public relations industry in the United States.

Mr. Bernays lived a fascinating life. He first got involved in high stakes politics when he "warmed up" the dour Calvin Coolidge by arranging the first presidential celebrity photo op in 1928. For the private sector, Bernays engineered a most notorious publicity stunt for the American Tobacco Company, by single-handedly neutralizing the taboo against women smoking in public. He organized a "Torches of Freedom" march down Broadway by ten smoking debutantes during the 1929 Easter Parade. With the help of feminists – some of whom understood the "right to smoke" as libratory – Bernays expertly publicized this spectacle, thus setting in motion the expected stir on op-ed pages across the land.

For Bernays, truth in public affairs did not exist per se. Rather, truth was the product of the "public relations counsel" forging prevailing "public opinion." It should be said that he readily recognized the ethical implications of his work, as witnessed in his later anti-smoking advocacy, after the dangers of cigarettes became known in the late-1950s. He could also be, in his own curious way, a humanitarian – as reflected in his work promoting the NAACP and anti-syphilis public education.

For Bernays, however, the necessity of controlling the public mind was a crucially important matter confronting the better element, a group in which he clearly included himself. In his first work, the hugely influential Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923), Bernays noted that the establishment of public education and the gradual extension of the right to vote caused consternation among western elites. The use of public relations techniques, then, was a way for the minority to "so mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction."

[noise]

12. Because he is the arbiter of patriotism

If Glenn Beck thinks torture is patriotic, then by god torture is the right thing to do.

Beck is right at home with the TIME magazine pseudo patriotic BS. It's just a game. Who cares about the dead. The murdered. The tortured. The persecuted. The pissed off unemployed, ignorant people Beck exploits. It's just a game.

[TexasObserver]

15. He has a following, and they'll all Buy this TIME mag off the rack.

[busybl]

16. cuz MJ is dead?

[Kablooie]

18. Hey, lot's of people talk about here online so he's become influential.

[Rex]

19. Because they love sticking huge assholes on their cover as well

as true heroes and heroins. Beck deserves to be there, just like his idol Hitler.