Hey, Here’s Some Good News: Far-Left Time Magazine Cuts 22 Staffers

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Good news is all too rare these days, so when some comes down the pike, celebrations are in order. One of the shrillest and ugliest of all of the left’s propaganda organs, Time Magazine, gave us an early Christmas present on Tuesday when it announced that it was cutting not one, not two, but fully twenty-two staffers. Could the final closing of Time’s venerable doors be far behind? We can only hope.

The New York Post reported Tuesday that “Time chief executive [officer] Jessica Sibley said Tuesday that the company is slashing roles across several departments including editorial, technology, sales & marketing and Time Studios.” Oh, stop, stop, you’re breaking my heart. As the axe fell, Sibley mouthed the expected platitudes: the cuts had to be made in order to secure a “sustainable” future for the propaganda rag, which faces “significant challenges” including “heightened competition for decreased advertising budgets” and “drastic” changes in what people are looking for in a magazine.

Yeah, all that could be it. Or maybe people just don’t like the direction Time Magazine has taken. Time has in recent years become an even more relentless and obnoxious cheerleader for the hard left than MSNBC, the Washington Post, or any other establishment media organ.

Unlike some other establishment publications that still like to pretend that they’re unbiased sources for news, Time’s bias has been naked, open, and unapologetic. It ran a series of covers featuring Donald Trump melting (twice), painting himself into a corner, barely keeping his head above water in a flooded Oval Office, melding into Vladimir Putin, heartlessly facing down a crying Hispanic child (presumably at the Southern border), and on and drearily on.

On the other side of this crude propaganda was the magazine’s Soviet-style cover for its Aug. 26 issue, featuring Kamala Harris looking confident and resolute, her head tilted slightly upward as she looked calmly into a future that contained no challenges she could not overcome. The caption: “Her Moment.” This image could hang in Tiananmen Square right next to the big picture of Chairman Mao and no one would bat an eye.

The Post notes that Time was “under fire earlier this month for its fawning cover story featuring Vice President Kamala Harris, despite her refusing an interview with the publication. Conservatives ripped the piece over the absence of Harris’ voice and the vice president’s opaque policy agenda.” The worst of it, however, was the cover image, which was emotional manipulation at its most obvious and clumsy.

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