1.) TIME Magazine: Smelly Protesters > SEAL Team 6 – Sorry SEAL Team Six, your excellent work killing America’s enemy number one wasn’t good enough for the editors at Time Magazine. Apparently, they were more enamored with smelly amorphous protestors, who they bestowed the title of Time Person of the Year on. TheDC’s Will Rahn reports: (more)
TIME, a once-popular newsmagazine, has chosen “The Protester” to be its 2011 Person of the Year. (more)
Time magazine’s cover story shows the U.S. Constitution and asks, “Does it still matter?” Reading this story, we kept waiting for Emmanuel Goldstein to show up for the Two Minutes of Hate. It was difficult to discern whether we were reading Time or Orwell’s 1984. (more)
Provocative? Perhaps, but that’s nothing new for Time magazine with a history of taking iconic American symbols and using them to make political statements. (more)
Crying and waking up in the middle of night are routine during any newborn’s first few months. But if those wailing episodes continue on a regular basis past the first year, then they may signal possible behavioral problems down the road. (more)
When she was placed on Time magazine’s 2011 list of the world’s most influential people, “Tiger Mother” Amy Chua probably didn’t think this meant she’d get to pose with real tigers. (more)
Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs could soon join the team at Facebook.com in a senior role, unnamed sources told Dealbook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Sunday. We don’t know if or when it will happen, as both parties are playing coy, or for how much. What we do know is that snagging Gibbs would make Facebook’s D.C. team one of the best in the tech industry. (more)
A new study finds a possible link between working mothers and childhood obesity, Time magazine reported Friday. (more)
Soon-to-be White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s former employer Time magazine has given President Obama a big thank you gift this week. Not only is President Obama on the cover of Time magazine for the 24th time in little more than four years, but the editors are trying to portray Obama as the next Ronald Reagan. President Obama and President Reagan are polar opposites in both politics and style. For a struggling magazine, I guess putting Reagan on the cover is the only way to sell some copies. Time magazine and the left will stop at nothing to prop up President Obama’s sagging presidency. Just over two years ago, Time portrayed President Obama as the next FDR on the cover of the magazine, but after the failure of Obama’s big government agenda, Time is jumping to have Obama reflect the country’s more conservative mood. These ploys are pathetic and desperate. (more)
President Obama has chosen Jay Carney, the current spokesman for Vice President Joe Biden and a former Washington bureau chief for Time Magazine, to be his new press secretary, replacing Robert Gibbs. (more)
Let’s be honest. Sometimes when you’re on Facebook, you start feeling like the grass is greener on the other side. Happy statuses start making you feel like you need a better job and a profile on a dating website. Or is that just me? (more)
It’s not a secret that Time magazine’s Joe Klein holds some Fox News commentators — particularly Glenn Beck — in low regard. He’s often criticized his “most crazy and ridiculous conspiracy theories” and has even said Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were potentially committing sedition against the U.S. government. (more)
Liam Neeson is the voice of Aslan the Lion in the new 3-D Narnia film, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” He’s got a great voice for the role. Neeson is even from the North of Ireland, the same area from which C.S. Lewis, the beloved Christian author of The Chronicles of Narnia, hailed. (more)
If Michele Bachmann edited Time magazine, the Republican Minnesota congresswoman would put the Tea Party on the publication’s annual Person of the Year cover. (more)
In 2008, millennial voters – those individuals between the ages of 18 and 29 – played a key role in then-candidate Barack Obama’s historic victory. While young voters came out in record numbers in 2008, the 2010 midterms were starkly different. Poll numbers appear to show what some call a general skepticism and lack of enthusiasm among young voters – a result that may have had a profound impact on midterm election results. (more)
Even in Israel, the Daily Caller’s “Journolist” exposé has received its share of attention. The Jeremiah Wright and Sarah Palin email threads were less interesting to Israelis than the Journolist discussion of whether to report on the Islamist background of the Ft. Hood Texas shooter. (more)
Since there have been so many bailouts, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger suggested in the pages of the Wall Street Journal that print and broadcast media should be bailed out, too. He calls this “enhanced public funding of journalism.” He dismisses concerns that government funding might lead to government control, citing “a strong culture of independence.” A few days after Bollinger’s article appeared, he was named Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, so he is in a position to promote his ideas on a larger stage. (more)
Few people got a career boost from the recession. But Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor who had little name recognition before the economic crisis, has. Not only was she appointed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2008 to chair the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP), she is now under consideration to be nominated to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – a new bureaucratic arm created by the financial reform bill. (more)
There is currently a fierce battle among several major news outlets to claim the front-row seat in the White House briefing room recently vacated by long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who retired amid scandal in June. (more)
