Time Sucks

I smell a letter to the editor coming....

I recently subscribed to Time because I hate reading news on the Internet, and because I recalled that I always enjoyed reading my mom's Time magazines while I was in high school. (Which was a long time ago, now, I guess -- pre-Internet, at least. Yikes.)

My subscription coincided almost exactly with Time's redesign. And gosh, I couldn't help but notice how much Time started sucking.

This article in the Christian Science Monitor says that the Big Three - Time, Newsweek, and US News & World Report, are making the decision to publish less news and more commentary:

Newsweek wants to report less and interpret more, says worldwide publisher Gregory Osberg. "In the past, you followed the news. Now we're getting out in front of it and providing analysis." [emphasis mine]

First of all, why? Because we're all idiots, and can't interpret it for ourselves?

Second, I'm assuming that they're switching the focus to commentary because "that's what people want, according to market trends" or some such BS. So then, what if every news agency did this? It'd be like what I call the Women's Clothing Crisis: you can't walk into a store and just buy a white blouse, because "they're not in this season."

Then again, maybe I should just buy all my clothes online.