Comprehensive Objectivity
Pros:
cover to cover
Cons:
can't think of any
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Author's Review
I started reading this magazine because my husband subscribes to it, as an avid newspaper/tabloid hater I was unexpectedly surprised.
I haven't really had to much experience of newspapers/ magazines here, but in the UK they are often judgmental, one-sided and full of everything and anything but news!
A real test came this week, as soon as I saw the breaking news on CNN of the Federal storming of the Gonzalez's Miami home and later, the obviously happy six year old re-united with his father, it occurred that the media who approved of the raid would show the later image and those that didn't, the earlier, terrified Elian.
Of course Time showed its impartiality by having both images, on its front cover, that's how news should be shown, we are not idiots, we can make our own minds up.
Time magazine is nothing, if not comprehensive. It's contents are segmented into; Nation, World, Business, Society and Science, The Arts and Personal Time. Within these titles they have articles as diverse as;
Abortion-The Partial-Birth War goes to Court, Can states ban the controversial medical procedure?
to;
History-Yes, it Was the Dauphin, DNA evidence solves a royal mystery about Louis XVI's heir.
The topics are covered with objective, intelligent copy.
Incidentally I always turn first to the intriguing column entitled, 'Numbers,' where intriguing and obscure statistics are thrown at you, for example, Number of governments in Italy since 1959, 43; number of governments in Cuba since 1959, 1.
Give Time magazine a look, it's more than current affairs.