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Bloggers Strike Again!

Score Another for Blogdom, Zero for MSM

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/07/time-magazine--.html
from JoeUser Forums

In yet another example of how blogdom is calling the MSM to task, Time recently ran a hit piece.  Basically it was a 1975 story about Saigon in 1973 type of story.  And they splashed a graphic on the cover to show how Iraq was so Vietnamish!

Problem is, they dont know their hind from their Apache.  For in the graphic, attempting to show America jumping out of Iraq, they used not an American Helicopter pulling the A out of Iraq, but a Hind Gun ship! 

And what do they do?  well they cannot pull the magazine back as it is in print and out to their readership.  They just delete the page from their site!  But in case this image does not show up, you can check it out on the link at the bottom of the article.

Not a rathergate, but definitely a case of hoof in mouth disease. Way to go Time!  What next?  A picture of Putin labeled as Bush?

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
if done deliberately against expert advice, it barely qualifies as a faux pas.

"dewey defeats truman" is a major faux pas.


True, it could have simply been another bias of the MSM. however, if that was the case, why was the story pulled from their online site? Seems this duck quacks and stinks like a duck.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
but instead we get fucking dissertations on the whys and where fores of the mind set of the common man who might or might not know the difference in the silhouettes of helos, what pure and unadulterated crap!


Actually, kb did bring up a good point. I had never thought it might be intentional. And the only reason I dont think it was now is that the link no longer works. So it might have been, or given the guilty actions of time, just another embrarrasment.
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
The one on the top is...a helicopter!

The one on the bottom left is...a helicopter!

The one on the bottom right is...a helicopter!

How'd I do cap'n?


You qualify as an expert at time magazine!
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
but...i'm the one who overreacted???


Considering the context (as in taken out of) of the quotes you listed, it appears you are.
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top