TIME and the new island

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 4, 2013, at 7:16 PM, paul johnson wrote:

> As a Time Inc, employee from the '60s, Our motto was "_Life_ is for
> those who can't read, _Time_ is for those who can't think.

Better than "_Life_ is for those who have no time, and vice versa".

LH


> On 10/4/2013 3:53 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>> If by "TIME" you mean "Time," the news-like magazine, it self-dumbified in the early 1990s. Before that, I enjoyed reading the high-quality of their writing, and I recall that they ran an article about how their articles were used in Korea for teaching good English.
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>> My impression is that they self-dumbified to increase circulation. I stopped paying attention shortly after I wrote them and told them how I pined for the quality they had abandoned. AFAIK, the only quality news magazine we have in the, err, US is the "Economist."
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>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Seattle, WA
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>> Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos
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>> On Oct 4, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> "The land-mass, seen here, is reportedly about 250 ft. _long_."
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>>> The photo is of an object about as nearly perfectly circular as will ever
>>> be found in nature. How TF can a journal of the supposed "quality" of TIME
>>> describe a circle as "*long*"?
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