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Johnny Football, or Putin’s touchdown?
Neil Munro examines for The Daily Caller a recent choice of cover photographs from TIME magazine. Time magazine’s cover for its Sept. 16 issue features a picture of contented-looking Russian…
Richard Stengel
American magazine editor
Health Care
TIME makes its case for single-payer health care
You might be surprised to learn that the latest TIME cover story devotes more than 24,000 words to diagnosing serious ills in American health care without offering effusive praise for…
Elections & Public Integrity
Another take on the media’s political fact-checks
The latest TIME magazine cover story documents “The Fact Wars” in the current presidential contest, and managing editor Richard Stengel offers some interesting thoughts on the topic. Michael Scherer’s smart…
Law & Public Safety
It’s nice to agree with Walter Williams
It seems I’m not alone in panning Richard Stengel’s recent TIME cover story about the Constitution’s continuing importance. Here’s what Walter Williams has to say in his latest column: There’s…
Law & Public Safety
A writer who needs a good dose of the JLF Citizen’s Constitutional Workshop
The latest TIME cover story asks about the U.S. Constitution: “Does it still matter?” It’s an important question, but the magazine’s readers are saddled with a guide in Richard Stengel…
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We should get some smart government official to run our lives for us
That?s the impression TIME seems to offer in explaining its choice of Ben Bernanke as 2009 ?person of the year.? In an article managing editor Richard Stengel labels a ?magisterial…
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TIME pumps more air into FDR myths
The good news about TIME?s latest issue-long ode to Franklin Roosevelt is that Amity Shlaes makes good use of her opportunity to deflate myths about the benefits of FDR?s economic…
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Turning back to Hood
As Richard Stengel and the TIME cover story both focus on the media?s struggles to remain financially viable, I?m reminded again of John Hood?s recent discussion of the same topic.
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Insight is valuable, if it?s actually insight
Richard Stengel, TIME?s managing editor, tells us this week: Information may want to be free, but knowledge and reporting and insight are expensive ? and valuable. Stengel uses that nugget…
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Another example of cluelessness from TIME
Within the first paragraph of the first item in the latest TIME, managing editor Richard Stengel demonstrates his poor grasp of economics: When I was walking home from the office…
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Some good sense from a TIME columnist
Perhaps it’s James Poniewozik’s work as a pop-culture columnist, not a politico, that allows him to see the sham of left-leaning journalists pretending to be objective. Poniewozik admits in the…
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TIME editor admits magazine’s bias, critiques newspapers for bias
TIME managing editor Richard Stengel tells us this week he can’t understand why newspapers still endorse candidates. Those endorsements call the newspapers’ objectivity into question. After extolling the virtues of…