Fair enough–diss capitalism long enough, capitalism wanders off. Fleas need dogs, dogs don’t need fleas.

I am sorry for the employees (never EVER use the term ‘workers’ except when referring to honey bees) who will be out of work. Maybe if the product had been better?

Dan Patterson

However, I hope some of it is a result of dissatisfied consumers who no longer are willing to fork over money to them. Growing up I was an avid TIME reader, even when many other people my age were probably reading Rolling Stone and Seventeen. However, the last time I got a renewal card from them (to renew a free subscription I got through an airline frequent flyer program) I wrote on it that not only would I not be renewing but that I wouldn’t take the magazine for free even. I told them I was no longer satisfied with their journalistic product and my decision wouldn’t change until their product did. Maybe that had some effect, too.

It’s much less threatening to corporate self-esteem to say “those guys didn’t know how to sell it right” than to say “nobody wants what we have anymore.”

It’s much less threatening to corporate self-esteem to say “those guys didn’t know how to sell it right” than to say “nobody wants what we have anymore.”

Move along, nothing to see here.

In that case, Time magazine would have to shut down completely. Leftist propagandists dominate its editorial and journalistic ranks. Who would be left?