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Time Digs a Deeper Hole

Time Magazine  continues to dig a deeper hole. Hume [1]last night:

Putin Up a Fight

The naming of Russian President Vladimir Putin as TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” is drawing some fire from the right.

Dean Barnett of the Weekly Standard — for one — says the selection — “clarifies some of the deep-seated bias and willful ignorance that characterize so much of the mainstream media.”

Putin got the nod over Al Gore, “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, Chinese leader Hu Jintao and General David Petraeus.

TIME insists it did not intend to glorify Putin. Deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius saying “It’s not an honor … we’re not saying that he’s a good person, we’re not saying he’s a bad person. He is the person who has most affected the news in 2007 and going forward.”

Not Returning

Meanwhile TIME — which has been engaged in a effort to hire what managing editor Richard Stengel calls “star writers” — is not renewing the contracts of conservative columnists William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer — both of whom are also FOX News contributors.

The New York Observer reports Stengel was unavailable for comment about the reasoning for the decision because he was working on the “Person of the Year” issue.

TIME is said to be negotiating to replace one of the high-profile contributor spots with National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru.

Go ahead, Time. Tell me how this is not part and parcel of the extreme leftward trend we’ve noted here
many times before. Not that they’re all that much different from the rest of the MSM, mind you.

And yes, I consider Ramseh a pretty fair writer, but, all respect to him, he’s hardly of the gravitas of Kristol and Krauthammer.