Time and Newsweek aren’t much better than tabloid trash

Barack Obama: “The First Gay President.”

This week’s issue of Newsweek features a photo of Barack Obama with a rainbow halo and a headline proclaiming him as the “First Gay President.”. Of course, Barack Obama isn’t gay, it’s just Newsweek’s way of shocking people and grabbing headlines. I guess they’re not confident in the quality of their writing, and decided to use tabloid techniques to sell magazines.

It could also be a reaction to Time Magazine, which decided to place a picture of a woman breast feeding her child. That alone would be questionable, but when you take into account that the child was pretty big in comparison to his mother, it seemed very strange. Actually, sick is probably a better word. » read more

Time “Person of the Year”: The finalists

Time magazine is set to announce its “Person of the Year” on Wednesday. So far, here are the finallists: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Barack Obama, General Stanley McChrystal, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, and the Chinese worker. Not much to choose from, is there?

If we were choosing based solely on cool names, I’d go with Usain Bolt. After all, what’s cooler that a sprinter named Bolt? If I had to guess, I’d say Barack Obama will be the winner. I’m not saying he deserves it, but he is the darling of the media. Plus, he didn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but look how well that turned out for him!