TIME and Obama: Time's Tiger Beat Treatment

Time's Obama Cover Stories
Time's TigerBeat Treatment




"He's Dreamy!"

Time's Obamamania:
Obama Averages a Cover Story Roughly Every 4 Weeks
Twice in 3 days in October

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Times Explains their Coverage as "Unquenchable thirst"



Barack Obama has appeared on the cover of Time roughly every 4 weeks during the last ten months.

Is Time biased?

No way!

Just ask them.

Much of the coverage has a simple explanation: the press is biased — toward the most commercial narrative. Barack Obama is a political newcomer, the first African-American nominee of a major party, and he defeated the first serious female candidate, who happened to be married to the previous sitting President. The popular demand for information and analysis about Obama's rise has been, for most of the campaign, unquenchable.
--Time: McCain's Bias Claim: Truth or Tactic?

Obama's constant presence as a TIME cover story subject?

He's more commercial.

TIME would know all about what sells. In the last ten years, TIME has lost nearly three-quarters of a million subscribers.

Time's Obama covers in the last forty-two weeks.





















Not once in all of these cover stories, has TIME addressed the Obama campaign's refusal to release medical, college, university and other records to the public.

Apparently, that's not "commercial". TIME not only gives Barack Obama the "TigerBeat Treatment", he's also the recipient of TIME's John Edwards policy of not covering news that's not beneficial to the campaign's interests.

Readers will not find anything about Barack Obama's records, but maybe TIME will reveal the candidate's favorite color.




To underscore their even-handed treatment of national news, TIME ran this cover last week of the Republicans, titled, "What a mess".




John McCain?

He's gotten three covers--if you include the one he shared with Obama.


TIME`appears to be banking that their "We Heart Obama" strategy will stop their sliding circulation, their marginal credibility on political issues and their layoffs.

But, if it doesn't--which is unlikely--they can always write about Britney, Paris and Clay Aiken.

TigerBeat, beware.


by Mondo Frazier
images: TIME archives; dbkp file

Atlantic's Jill Greenberg: McCain's Trust "Not Very Sophicated"

Atlantic Pulls a Fast One




“He thought he was being lit by a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. But that wasn’t firing. He had no idea he was being lit from below.”
--Atlantic photographer, Jill Greenberg, on her technique for getting the most unflattering photos of McCain for the magazine's cover story.

The Atlantic does a cover story on one candidate and the photographer goes to great lengths to portray the candidate in the most unflattering light. The magazine is Atlantic, the candidate?

The answer, to what must be the easiest question in the world for Mainstream Media watchers, is John McCain.

Little Green Footballs minced no words about the episode:

Gerard Vanderleun posts about some quite amazing perfidy from The Atlantic and photographer Jill Greenberg, whose photo shoot with John McCain was deliberately set up to produce ominous, threatening pictures—by using outright trickery: Out-Takes: Behind The Atlantic’s McCain Cover.

Conservative Punk thinks McCain got "Dexterized".

"Doesn't it look similar to the technique used on the poster for Showtime's Dexter?"





All this would be conjecture--but the photographer in question, Jill Greenberg, couldn't wait to dish on how she pulled a fast one over on the McCain campaign.

When The Atlantic called Jill Greenberg, a committed Democrat, to shoot a portrait of John McCain for its October cover, she rubbed her hands with glee.

She delivered the image the magazine asked for—a shot that makes the Republican presidential nominee look heroic. Greenberg is well known for her highly retouched images of bears and crying babies. But she didn’t bother to do much retouching on her McCain images. “I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad,” she says.

That's taken from "PDN Pulse: How Jill Greenberg Really Feels about John McCain". As is the following:

After getting that shot, Greenberg asked McCain to “please come over here” for one more set-up before the 15-minute shoot was over. There, she had a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. “That’s what he thought he was being lit by,” Greenberg says. “But that wasn’t firing.”

What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says. And his handlers didn’t seem to notice it either. “I guess they’re not very sophisticated,” she adds.

An admission by a media-type who describes "trust to do one's job in an objective way" as "not very sophisticated".

Perhaps that's been the MSM's attitude--and excuse--for their biased reporting the last forty years: anyone who "trusts them to do their jobs in an objective way" is just "not very sophisticated".

A sort of "all's fair in love, war and MSM reporting" philosophy.

Mark us down as among those who are "not very sophisticated". Just like John McCain--and a lot of voters.


by Mondoreb
images: consevative punk; pdnpulse

Mainstream Media Sarah Palin Bias: Dog Bites Man Story

Two More Examples of the Unbiased MSM:
Take the US magazine Bias Comparison Taste Test
New York Times: 3 Days, 67 Anti-Palin Articles




The Mainstream Media's favorite meme--other than Sarah Palin = AntiChrist--is that they are an unbiased news source. The anti-Palin MSM coverage is reaching frenzied heights--even for the MSM.

MSM bias is a 'dog bites man' story--to everyone but the perps in Big Media.

Hysience sums up the MSM 'reporting' on Sarah Palin with one image: the one pictured above. From Media Coverage of McCain/Palin:

In case you didn't know already, Us publisher Jann Wenner is a prominent Obama donor who also publishes Rolling Stone, which deified Obama in March. Michelle Malkin points out that "the use of the gossip rags to shape the election is all part and parcel of the Brangelina-fication of the Obamas that I wrote about earlier this summer. They are pulling out all the stops to glorify The One and demonize all who stand in his way.

Sixty-Seven and Counting...


Don Surber notes that once the New York Times gets a meme in its teeth, it doesn't let go:

The new New York Times mantra: Palin is no Hillary. In 3 days since Palin appeared, 67 New York Times articles have made that clear.

Palin’s not Hillary. Palin’s better. Palin didn’t accept bribes disguised as “cattle futures” money. Palin did not tolerate the serial sexual harassment of women by her husband as a means of grabbing power. Palin worked up from city council, and did not waltz into the United States Senate on her husband’s name. Palin can hunt, fish and help make a go of it in business.

Holders of the NY Times stock can't scream "SELL!" loud or fast enough.

NY Times Dishes Palin Dirt; Loses 30,000 More Subscribers


Surber also notes:

Sarah Baxter of the Times of London, a good reporter, asked, “Will America fall in love with Palin or will she fizzle, like Dan Quayle, the vice-president to George Bush Sr who could not spell ‘potatoe’?

Don’t worry. Palin’s from Idaho. They spell potato before they learn the whole alphabet.

Baxter's also an excellent plagiariser, Times Online Stealing Blogger's Content.

We already remarked on US News & World Report's over-the-top piece, Sarah Palin, Hillary Attacks: Fear and Loathing in the MSM.

To catalog all the craziness would be a full-time job for a dozen MSM watchers.


PUMAs Roar; Anti-PUMAs Roar Back


We've received some comments along the lines of "Hillary Clinton supporters will never support Sarah Palin". It's also a big meme for the Mainstream Media.

However, one PUMA does see the MSM bias and remarks on it:

* New York Times corrects one lie, ABC gloats over trash

While one blog remarks sums up the Obama (and MSM) take on PUMAs:

* gluing
Which summed up Clinton's DNC speech, thus:

It was a fine speech, and hopefully some of that dumbass PUMA crowd will realize that voting for a candidate who holds the complete opposite views as their beloved HRC is utterly useless. Probably not. But I can hope.

PUMAs know.

It's all about presenting the "news" to US consumers in a fair and unbiased way.


by Mondoreb
images: hysicence; andyandval, Free Republic

GreeNazi Magazine a Must for Eco Militants

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Two months and three days ago, we "celebrated" something called Earth Day.

The KG3, in the person of Irony Curtain, was there to cover the shenanigans. One result is above: GreeNazi magazine.

Who or what are The KG3? And why? Some say they are an ad hoc group of cagey party misfits "putting the toil in toilet humor." Others suspect this troika was selected for its commitment to outstanding production. Do not be ridiculous. But perhaps the masses have the right to know why The KG3s efforts merit a separate category when they are not even children of elite Party members? Perhaps it is not wise to ask too many questions.

As the GreeNazi cover suggests, "Recycle! Reuse one page of this issue to wipe yourself!"

At last, a Green publication we can get behind.

by Mondoreb
powered by: Irony Curtain of the KG3
Image/source: Green Nazi magazine: Earth Day issue