Category Archives: Time

The Palin Campaign in Mark Halperin's Head

Posted on 09/19/2011 by Peter Hart

Mark Halperin has a feature in Time magazine every week called "The Big Questions." For a process-obsessed campaign reporter, this means a weekly who's up, who's down scorecard, in an easy to followQ-&-A format. This week's questions: Is Sarah Palin … Continue reading →

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Is the Election Over Yet?

Posted on 09/16/2011 by Peter Hart

From Time magazine's Rick Perry cover story (9/26/11): When you look at Perry, it's easy to picture him in an old Western. His late arrival in the primary field in August certainly felt like that moment when the big stranger … Continue reading →

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Zakaria, Libya and Iraq: Don't Remember What I Wrote

Posted on 08/26/2011 by Peter Hart

Fareed Zakaria cheers the Libya War in Time magazine this week for not following the Iraq model: It has been prosecuted with the memory of the Iraq war firmly in mind. Only this time the approach has been to view … Continue reading →

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Where Does Press Set Bar for Bachmann?

Posted on 07/29/2011 by Peter Hart

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote a rather apoplectic column about presidential candidate Michele Bachmann this week, lamenting the fact that other GOP candidates aren't calling her out for being completely ill-prepared for the job: Bachmann does not deserve to … Continue reading →

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Time: The U.S. Audience Is Different

Posted on 07/25/2011 by Peter Hart

Every so often you're struck by something like this– a collection of covers for this week's Time:

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The Brave World of Boehner/Obama Bipartisanship

Posted on 07/15/2011 by Peter Hart

Media love the "middle" in politics–where leaders of the two major parties come together to find common ground, renew the national spirit and/or live up to the ideals of the Founders. Time magazine (7/14/11) has a soppy piece about Barack … Continue reading →

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Time Magazine Feeds the Bachmann-tum

Posted on 06/17/2011 by Peter Hart

The story of Michele Bachmann's surging campaign momentum continues, this time courtesy of Beltway reporter Mark Halperin of Time magazine: Why has Michele Bachmann suddenly become the It candidate? With her impressive New Hampshire debate performance, Bachmann has gone from … Continue reading →

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Everything Proves That Torture Worked

Posted on 05/06/2011 by Peter Hart

Time magazine's new issue (no link to the text is available) includes this weird explanation of how torture helped track down Osama bin Laden: Interrogators grilled 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed for details about the courier. When he pleaded ignorance, … Continue reading →

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Paul Ryan, Serious Numbers Geek (Aside From His Fuzzy Numbers)

Posted on 04/08/2011 by Peter Hart

The uncritical coverage of Paul Ryan's budget plan continues.In the new issue of Time magazine,Michael Crowley and Jay Newton-Smalltell us that Ryan is "the new face of federal frugality": Just 41 years old, with jet black hair and a touch … Continue reading →

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Joe Klein and the Palestinian Gandhi

Posted on 04/01/2011 by Peter Hart

There's a long tradition of U.S. pundits wishing for the day Palestinians finally decide touse non-violent means to protest Israeli occupation. Time magazine's Joe Klein weighs in on the subject this week: Ever since Israel won control of the West … Continue reading →

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Time: Obama Too Far Left?

Posted on 03/18/2011 by Peter Hart

This is an ad for some sort of Time magazine web feature, grabbed today from the magazine's homepage: Time is a little late to the table; this has been the media line since shortly after Obama was elected (FAIR Action … Continue reading →

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Jay Carney, Comforting the Powerful

Posted on 03/17/2011 by Peter Hart

The New York Times has a piece today (3/17/11) about new White House press secretary Jay Carney and how his background suits him for the job. Carney was previously a reporter for Time magazine, and was apparently notmuch of a … Continue reading →

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What Americans Want to Read

Posted on 02/25/2011 by Peter Hart

The gallery of covers for Time magazine this week. One stands out, obviously.

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Joe Klein and the Rotten Fruit of Arab Democracy

Posted on 02/03/2011 by Peter Hart

Sometimes words fail. Joe Klein, writing in the new issue of Time, wonders: How on earth do we get saddled with such creepy clients as Karzai and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, over and over again? Yes, why do they keep … Continue reading →

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Time's Civility Panel–Featuring Glenn Beck

Posted on 01/14/2011 by Peter Hart

Earlier this week (1/10/11) I wrote, given how short corporate media's memories are, "Let's hope that when someone convenes a civility in media discussion in 2020, they don't ask Glenn Beck to weigh in." No need to wait that long. … Continue reading →

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