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From: asgard@well.UUCP (J. R. Stoner)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Time magazine
Message-ID: <1813@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 12:59:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 20 12:59:25 1986
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Reply-To: asgard@well.UUCP (J. R. Stoner)
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In article <1256@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>> > 
>> >1)I take it as a matter of principle to be *very* skeptical of
>> >  Time magazine.
>> >               tim sevener  whuxn!orb

[...]

>I have found The UTNE Reader to be one of the best - it is kind of
>like a "Reader's Digest" of the Alternative Press and of events
>and news which are generally ignored by the mainstream media.
					     ^^^^^^^^^^

Maybe the "news" that is "ignored" are the unbalanced manifestos that usually
inhabits UTNE, Mother Jones et al.  By your reconing news magazines which do
not have the same extremist political axe to grind as you is not worthy of
being called a "news" magazine.  I suppose by "mainstream" you mean the 80
per cent or more of us who are not extremists, like you.

[...]

>
>Mother Jones is a good magazine which covers different aspects of
>culture and delights in iconoclasm and uncovering scandal. 

This is suppposed to be balanced journalism?  It would seem you only
recommend magazines which agree with your preconceived biases.

>
>For weekly news, In These Times, is a very good newspaper which
>often does a very good job of covering international news ignored
							   ^^^^^^^
>by the mainstream media. 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[...]

>To my mind Time simply
>echoes what is covered by daily newspapers anyway, with their usual
							 ^^^^^^^^^^^
>biased slant, so what do you gain by that anyway?
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^

The pot calling the kettle black.  I thought only the McCarthyites spread
around conspiricy theories, that are not backed up by attribution.

>
>For coverage of the nuclear arms race there is the monthly,
>Nuclear Times, which was founded by a coalition of antinuclear
>weapons groups.

And you seriously expect them to be unbiased?

>
>The Nation is another good weekly tabloid which primarily covers
>politics and is consistently liberal.  (unlike the New Republic which
>has gone to the barbarians and the warmongers!!)

Again with the conspiricy theories, eh?

>                   tim sevener   whuxn!orb


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From the manic ravings of J. R. (May the farce be with you) Stoner