When I was a kid, as I’ve noted before, the three national newsweeklies were extremely important cultural and commercial institutions. They also served an important role for the state, like the three networks, in communicating official propaganda. Naturally, they also tended to have close relationships with the intelligence organs. Now, Time magazine, for example, is just another irrelevant relic. Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Richard Stengel, the managing editor of Time appeared, as he does every week, to hype the stories in the new issue. They were all laughably out of it, as is natural in an internet age. My … Continue reading The Irrevelance of ‘Time’