Leaner must be code for stupider, although the Time Person of the Year being a reflective cover was the coup de grace. To be a fly on the wall at the meeting that decision was made at.

http://www.theonion.com/video/time-annou…

It begins.

TIME was something I cut quotes out of and put on index cards for Debate Team.

Since my father has been a subscriber to Time for about 230 years, often he is given free gift subscriptions, which he sends to me.

Used to be a good magazine over a decade ago, but now it is thin as a pamphlet, favors colorful graphics over content, and is horribly dumbed down for the American circulation. Furthermore, I swear they choose the dumbest possible letters for their "letters to the editor" section.

Does picking it up to get to something beneath or behind it count?

Makes up in generic frippery what it lacks in timeliness.

It's dead, Jim.

Thank you for that, dirge. That was great. And apparently more accurate than one might expect, by what Theodore says.

Last time that I picked up Time was in my doctor's waiting room a couple of months ago. But I am not sure how to vote seeing that that copy was almost a year old.

I haven't looked at Time in a few years but the last time I did I think it was all infographics. Is there even any content left at this point?

@7: What is really funny, is that I remember reading the "Time for Kids" magazine when I was in elementary school.

Flash forward 20 years, and I see the international edition of Time covering the Arab Spring, and the US version with a bullshit feel-good cover story on how anxiety may be good for you. Insulting and ridiculous:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/25…

I thought you said Thyme.

They still exist?

(fyi used to own 1000 shares after the TW/AOL merger, but those days are gone)

Adventure Time!

@11,

What's funny to me is that they had to spend extra money writing two different sets of editorial content and providing both stories with photos and graphics. Apparently, cost effectiveness (even for a dying medium) must be sacrificed on the altar of American mediocrity.

Time is still being published? Now THAT is news..and more newsworthy than anything that's in Time this week.

Adventure Time? That shit is good.

It was 2004. Suddenly, there it was: a big headline about how crooked Indian gaming was. The story talked about a few tribes in one state leaving Americans to believe that one tribe was interchangeable with all others. The article also went on about how some east coast tribe was really African Americans and not Indian at all. It was amazingly, stunningly unashamedly wrong and yet written with such somber authority. So it was clear that I couldn't trust a thing they ever wrote again.