May Be Time to Boycott TIME Magazine.

Daggitt · January 24, 2013, 09:09 PM

Was incensed by the ignorance evidenced in the new issue of Time. Articles on Gun Rights appear to be ill informed. Glorifying the White House attempt to repeal the second amendment. Distorted facts abound. They are comparing the so called assault rifles to a Musket. Stating said Musket fires three or four rounds a minute ! Talking up Joe Biden who is one of the most well documented known liars to make his living in the political cess pool. Idolizing Michael Bloomberg who essentially purchased his position. I had to put it down before I threw up. What a bunch of pig excrement these people emit. The attempted brainwashing of the American public is well under way. I would encourage everyone to boycott TIME and their advertisers. Hard to believe they are such protecters of the First Amendment but equally ardent at aiding the destroying of the Second Amendment. I need to go use the restroom and I think I know the best use for my issue.

Bartholomew Roberts · January 24, 2013, 09:32 PM

Time Magazine has supported an outright ban on handguns and bans on other types of firearms since 1981 (if not longer). Luckily, they haven't been getting more relevant... But yeah, no surprise.

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcnobody.html

RockSmoot · January 24, 2013, 09:34 PM

You haven't cancelled yours yet? The only ones I see anymore are at my doctor's office, and I try to steal those to limit the impact of their propaganda.

Willie Sutton · January 24, 2013, 09:36 PM

^^ what he said (and does)...

They are destined to follow Newsweek into the distbin of failed media.

Willie

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Walter · January 24, 2013, 10:46 PM

I let my last subscription to TIME expire in the mid 80s. Way too liberal of a magazine for my taste.

I agree with Willie Sutton.

Quote:

They are destined to follow Newsweek into the distbin of failed media.

Walter

Newton24b · January 24, 2013, 10:49 PM

no but i admit id really like tos ee an m16/ar 15 magazien catch that could support the weight of a loaded "600 round drum magazine".

yeah its funny they claim you can get a 40 round magazine for 26 dollars sent to your door, and a 600 round magazine for 26 dollars. who makes that?

comn-cents · January 24, 2013, 11:02 PM

I banded them 20 years ago, same with levi's.

TXAZ · January 24, 2013, 11:08 PM

Look at their circulation figures. Any takers? (metaphorically speaking)

bikerbill · January 25, 2013, 08:43 AM

Newsweek just folded their print magazine because they have become irrelevant in the modern world. Time is next ...

The only thing these magazines are good for is opinion, since nobody looks to them for actual news coverage. And I don't share their opinions on anything, so I don't read, subscribe to or buy a copy.

chiefr · January 25, 2013, 10:36 AM

Time Magazine like most of todays main stream media is agenda oriented.
As a law abiding gun owner, never at any point in time can I remember, being stereotyped as something other than law abiding citizen just because I am a gun owner. If whats going on in media don't bother you, you are not paying attention.

jmortimer · January 25, 2013, 10:55 AM

Time is banning itself with a crappy product. I agree, soon to go the way of Newsweek and the Dodo.

Glenn E. Meyer · January 25, 2013, 10:59 AM

Some of you guys seem to be boycotting grammar and spelling.

Want to tune it up a bit?

Madcap_Magician · January 25, 2013, 11:46 AM

What's the point of boycotting a magazine that no one reads?

MLeake · January 25, 2013, 11:57 AM

TIME today seems to be about where Mother Earth News was when I was a kid.

Back then, my dad was an environmental speech writer for the governor of Maine, among other things, and so he knew a lot of local reporters and editors at the state capitol's hometown newspaper. He introduced me to some of them, along with Bill Cohen, Edwin Muskie, and a few others whose names I've forgotten since. I don't remember the most radical of his associates being as far left as the nominal mainstream news is today. Many of them even... gasp... hunted.

Yep, reporters who covered environmental issues, yet still shot deer and ducks. And US Senators (or Congressmen, at that time, for Cohen IIRC) who would shoot the bull with a small kid, and not seem phony.

iraiam · January 25, 2013, 01:02 PM

I boycotted TIME magazine about 20 years ago over gun control, haven't bought a single issue since.

**4V50 Gary** · January 25, 2013, 01:03 PM

Time, like other elements of the mainstream media, has been losing readership. More people are turning to the alternative media for their news.

That Alex Jones was interviewed by Piers Morgan is significant. It's nothing that Jones (and lord knows I couldn't watch more than a minute) said but rather that the alternate media was being recognized by the mainstream media that counts.

Bartholomew Roberts · January 25, 2013, 01:10 PM

Morgan has been trolling gun owners for ratings to save his miserable, dying show. In that sense, Jones was a natural choice. I expect Time magazine it trying to do much the same thing except they are already so irrelevant that nobody even responds to the attempt anymore.

SPEMack618 · January 25, 2013, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by comn-cents

I banded them 20 years ago, same with levi's.

Not to thread hijack, but what did Levi's do?

On a semi-related note, I haven't had a Time delivered to my house in years, nor bought one.

But I did see an older one, dating back to the Colorado Theater shooting, in Jiffy Lube when I was the LadyFriend getting her Jeep serviced. I opened it up, intending to remove the anti-gun article.

Someone had beaten me to it!

MLeake · January 25, 2013, 01:22 PM

Levi Strauss is San Francisco based, so it's possible they feel they have no real choice in their political environment, but they are on the list of major contributors to gun control groups.

22-rimfire · January 25, 2013, 01:23 PM

Time Magazine.... I haven't bought a copy of that rag in years all because of their liberal views a number of years ago. I used to have a subscription and let it expire with no renewals.

g.willikers · January 25, 2013, 04:40 PM

Didn't Time once have enough pages to stop a bb gun?
Doubt if it's thick enough to do that, now.
It's the incredible shrinking magazine.
You'd think they would actually notice.

JWT · January 25, 2013, 04:58 PM

Many, many years ago Time was actually a news magazine. But, for years now it's been a very liberal opinion magazine. It will go the way of Newsweek before long and no longer be published in magazine form.

PoiDog · January 25, 2013, 06:17 PM

Time magazine, and Newsweek for that matter, might have made good fish wrappers.

Might have, anyway.

They're dying a much deserved death. And good riddance to them.

Webleymkv · January 25, 2013, 07:55 PM

The last issue of Time that I bothered to look at (I was in a waiting room with nothing else to do) was so thin that I'd hardly call it a magazine anymore, pamphlet seems like a more appropriate description. I'd say that, with so little advertising money coming in, it will soon go the way of Newsweek.

leadchucker · January 25, 2013, 08:05 PM

I would boycott Time, but I haven't read it in years. It's a worthless liberal rag.

January 24, 2013, 09:09 PM	#1
Daggitt Senior Member Join Date: March 11, 2011 Posts: 321	May Be Time to Boycott TIME Magazine. Was incensed by the ignorance evidenced in the new issue of Time. Articles on Gun Rights appear to be ill informed. Glorifying the White House attempt to repeal the second amendment. Distorted facts abound. They are comparing the so called assault rifles to a Musket. Stating said Musket fires three or four rounds a minute ! Talking up Joe Biden who is one of the most well documented known liars to make his living in the political cess pool. Idolizing Michael Bloomberg who essentially purchased his position. I had to put it down before I threw up. What a bunch of pig excrement these people emit. The attempted brainwashing of the American public is well under way. I would encourage everyone to boycott TIME and their advertisers. Hard to believe they are such protecters of the First Amendment but equally ardent at aiding the destroying of the Second Amendment. I need to go use the restroom and I think I know the best use for my issue.

January 24, 2013, 11:02 PM	#7
comn-cents Senior Member Join Date: June 18, 2008 Location: Pac.N.W. Posts: 1,804	I banded them 20 years ago, same with levi's. __________________ Be Smarter Than A Bore-Snake!

January 24, 2013, 11:08 PM	#8
TXAZ Senior Member Join Date: September 5, 2010 Location: McMurdo Sound Texas Posts: 4,322	$20 says NRA outlives Time Mag Look at their circulation figures. Any takers? (metaphorically speaking) __________________ Cave illos in guns et backhoes

January 25, 2013, 08:43 AM	#9
bikerbill Senior Member Join Date: September 19, 2007 Location: Lago Vista TX Posts: 2,425	Newsweek just folded their print magazine because they have become irrelevant in the modern world. Time is next ... The only thing these magazines are good for is opinion, since nobody looks to them for actual news coverage. And I don't share their opinions on anything, so I don't read, subscribe to or buy a copy. __________________ "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." Albert Camus

January 25, 2013, 10:59 AM	#12
Glenn E. Meyer Senior Member Join Date: November 17, 2000 Posts: 20,064	Some of you guys seem to be boycotting grammar and spelling. Want to tune it up a bit? __________________ NRA, TSRA, IDPA, NTI, Polite Soc. - Aux Armes, Citoyens

January 24, 2013, 09:32 PM	#2
Bartholomew Roberts member Join Date: June 12, 2000 Location: Texas and Oklahoma area Posts: 8,462	Time Magazine has supported an outright ban on handguns and bans on other types of firearms since 1981 (if not longer). Luckily, they haven't been getting more relevant... But yeah, no surprise. http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcnobody.html

January 24, 2013, 09:34 PM	#3
RockSmoot Member Join Date: January 22, 2013 Location: Rogers, Arkansas Posts: 36	You haven't cancelled yours yet? The only ones I see anymore are at my doctor's office, and I try to steal those to limit the impact of their propaganda.

January 24, 2013, 09:36 PM	#4
Willie Sutton Junior member Join Date: January 26, 2012 Posts: 1,066	^^ what he said (and does)... They are destined to follow Newsweek into the distbin of failed media. Willie .

January 24, 2013, 10:49 PM	#6
Newton24b Junior member Join Date: February 10, 2009 Posts: 974	no but i admit id really like tos ee an m16/ar 15 magazien catch that could support the weight of a loaded "600 round drum magazine". yeah its funny they claim you can get a 40 round magazine for 26 dollars sent to your door, and a 600 round magazine for 26 dollars. who makes that?

January 25, 2013, 10:36 AM	#10
chiefr Senior Member Join Date: January 27, 2010 Location: AR Posts: 1,401	Time Magazine like most of todays main stream media is agenda oriented. As a law abiding gun owner, never at any point in time can I remember, being stereotyped as something other than law abiding citizen just because I am a gun owner. If whats going on in media don't bother you, you are not paying attention.

January 25, 2013, 10:55 AM	#11
jmortimer Junior member Join Date: January 24, 2010 Location: South West Riverside County California Posts: 2,763	Time is banning itself with a crappy product. I agree, soon to go the way of Newsweek and the Dodo.

January 25, 2013, 11:46 AM	#13
Madcap_Magician Senior Member Join Date: August 13, 2009 Location: MN Posts: 668	What's the point of boycotting a magazine that no one reads?

January 25, 2013, 11:57 AM	#14
MLeake Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2007 Location: Outside KC, MO Posts: 10,128	TIME today seems to be about where Mother Earth News was when I was a kid. Back then, my dad was an environmental speech writer for the governor of Maine, among other things, and so he knew a lot of local reporters and editors at the state capitol's hometown newspaper. He introduced me to some of them, along with Bill Cohen, Edwin Muskie, and a few others whose names I've forgotten since. I don't remember the most radical of his associates being as far left as the nominal mainstream news is today. Many of them even... gasp... hunted. Yep, reporters who covered environmental issues, yet still shot deer and ducks. And US Senators (or Congressmen, at that time, for Cohen IIRC) who would shoot the bull with a small kid, and not seem phony.

January 25, 2013, 01:02 PM	#15
iraiam Senior Member Join Date: September 6, 2012 Location: Lakewood, CO Posts: 1,057	I boycotted TIME magazine about 20 years ago over gun control, haven't bought a single issue since. __________________ NRA Lifetime Member Since 1999 "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials." George Mason

January 25, 2013, 01:03 PM	#16
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 21,832	Time, like other elements of the mainstream media, has been losing readership. More people are turning to the alternative media for their news. That Alex Jones was interviewed by Piers Morgan is significant. It's nothing that Jones (and lord knows I couldn't watch more than a minute) said but rather that the alternate media was being recognized by the mainstream media that counts. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*

January 25, 2013, 01:10 PM	#17
Bartholomew Roberts member Join Date: June 12, 2000 Location: Texas and Oklahoma area Posts: 8,462	Morgan has been trolling gun owners for ratings to save his miserable, dying show. In that sense, Jones was a natural choice. I expect Time magazine it trying to do much the same thing except they are already so irrelevant that nobody even responds to the attempt anymore.

January 25, 2013, 01:22 PM	#19
MLeake Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2007 Location: Outside KC, MO Posts: 10,128	Levi Strauss is San Francisco based, so it's possible they feel they have no real choice in their political environment, but they are on the list of major contributors to gun control groups.

January 25, 2013, 01:23 PM	#20
22-rimfire Senior Member Join Date: February 19, 2005 Location: Tennessee Posts: 5,323	Time Magazine.... I haven't bought a copy of that rag in years all because of their liberal views a number of years ago. I used to have a subscription and let it expire with no renewals.

January 25, 2013, 04:40 PM	#21
g.willikers Senior Member Join Date: September 28, 2008 Posts: 10,442	Didn't Time once have enough pages to stop a bb gun? Doubt if it's thick enough to do that, now. It's the incredible shrinking magazine. You'd think they would actually notice. __________________ Walt Kelly, alias Pogo, sez: “Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.”

January 25, 2013, 04:58 PM	#22
JWT Senior Member Join Date: March 16, 2007 Location: Southern Arizona Posts: 3,888	Many, many years ago Time was actually a news magazine. But, for years now it's been a very liberal opinion magazine. It will go the way of Newsweek before long and no longer be published in magazine form.

January 25, 2013, 06:17 PM	#23
PoiDog Senior Member Join Date: September 1, 1999 Location: IL Posts: 309	Time magazine, and Newsweek for that matter, might have made good fish wrappers. Might have, anyway. They're dying a much deserved death. And good riddance to them.

January 25, 2013, 07:55 PM	#24
Webleymkv Senior Member Join Date: July 20, 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 10,446	The last issue of Time that I bothered to look at (I was in a waiting room with nothing else to do) was so thin that I'd hardly call it a magazine anymore, pamphlet seems like a more appropriate description. I'd say that, with so little advertising money coming in, it will soon go the way of Newsweek.

January 25, 2013, 08:05 PM	#25
leadchucker Senior Member Join Date: March 5, 2011 Location: NC Posts: 252	I would boycott Time, but I haven't read it in years. It's a worthless liberal rag. __________________ JOIN THE NRA!