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Time Magazine Can't Even Get Man of the Year's Birthday Correct


Rory O'Connor caught Time Magazine in an hysterically pathetic and inept boo-boo. In his post, "Time to Cover Up?" Rory catches Time Magazine flubbing Russian President Vladimir Putin's birthday, off by a whole six years. What's most hilarious about this caper is that the info is readily available via googling in 3.2 seconds.

Sure, it's funny that Time could get something like this wrong and then try to cover it up, but what worries me most is what worries Rory the most too:

Time's embarrassing inability to get even this very basic fact correct certainly leads one to question its trustworthiness in other, far larger matters of fact and substance. Moreover, its apparent attempt to cover up the error - and to mislead the public by posting an incomplete transcript and billing it as complete - is even more egregious.

As I mentioned the other day, I didn't like the tone of the article, feeling it was a little glib and irritating. But a factual error like this brings much more into question. What else did they get wrong?


Sean Paul Kelley December 21, 2007 - 1:12pm
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Wrong Question?

What did they get correct?

Synoia December 21, 2007 - 1:53pm
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It reminds me of the impression

I used to get of Soviet and Chinese propaganda media. They just didn't care whether or not they missed huge details, because the writers and editors didn't give a hoot about their jobs. I've been getting that same feeling about a lot of the MSM for years. They just don't care, because they all know their jobs are just bullshit anyway.

Not caring about journalism is the disease that people like Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes have brought to us. The MSM standard has become simply to fill pages (or hours on TV) with loads of inane crap with plenty of self-serving spin. That's why I don't own a TV, and that's why I don't buy newspapers. I want them to die, and the only way to accomplish that is to stop paying them.
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"Adapt or perish." Murphy's Law? Nope, Darwin's Guarantee.

Jimbo92107 December 21, 2007 - 2:14pm
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TIME and the Klein thing

This reminds me of the case with Joe Klein spouting some BS on the FISA bill. He got called on it, and TIME stood by their man.

IN the same way that the DEA smells like Nixon, TIME has always smelled like Henry Luce; talk about establishment disinformation machine. Citizen Kane and Rupert Murdoch really got nothing on that style.

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HongPong December 21, 2007 - 2:30pm
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I think the last time I saw TIME, no pun intended,

off the rack of a newsstand was on a table in my doctor's office last year.

It looks very professionally done. Pretty borders.

"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch December 21, 2007 - 2:38pm
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