The Most Evocative Magazine Covers of the Boston Marathon Bombing
Weekly magazines may be fewer and fewer, but after the week of the Boston Marathon bombing, they mean more and more right now.
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Millennials are the "ME ME ME GENERATION," writes Joel Stein for Time magazine's new cover story out today — which makes him only the latest culture writer in the last century or so to declare the youth self-obsessed little monsters.
Weekly magazines may be fewer and fewer, but after the week of the Boston Marathon bombing, they mean more and more right now.
The mood is "lighter" since Time Warner's deal to spin off all 21 titles in its magazine division collapsed this week, even though the new plan — spinning off the publishing branch into a publicly traded company valued at just $2.50 per share — should have nobody calming down.
Since talks fell through with the Meredith Corporation on Wednesday afternoon, Time Warner has decided to spin off Time Inc. and all 21 of its magazines into a separate company.
Time is gearing up to name it's annual Person of the Year in December and based on the discussion at the annual celebrity nomination debate luncheon it's probably going to be another non-person winning this year.
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Adweek has a pretty breastactular article on the science and history of the mammary in advertising today.
Time's cover this week features another mother-son pairing, but since it's Mitt Romney and his mom, Lenore, it's likely to be less buzzy than the magazine's last mother-boy pairing. Inside, you'll also find Mark Halperin's interview with a sniffling Romney.
"I feel like when we win, everybody wins," said Time managing editor Rick Stengel in a ballroom at the New York Marriott Marquis Thursday night, accepting a National Magazine Award for magazine of the year, the evening's top honor. Of course, everybody did not win.
Here we are, now solidly into the 21st century, and yet, we still do not have autonomous, friendly robot housekeepers to do all our bidding in the style of Rosie from The Jetsons.
Time magazine has chosen the vague and non-committal "The Protester" as its "Person of the Year."
Weeklies continue their cover wars
A special bin Laden issue will be the fifth time the magazine has used the design
Details, including those Time doesn't mention
That's as many times as Geraldine Ferraro made the cover in 1984 alone
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