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Time: the Weekly Fiction Magazine

Gardner, Jigs | August 15, 1959 issue

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Criticism of the so-called news magazines in general, and of Time in particular, is an activity almost as old as the magazines themselves. Such a critical approach, because it is both too serious and too frivolous, fails to discover the true nature of a product like Time, and thus fails to understand why so many seemingly intelligent people read it. The critics are too serious because they accept Time's own statement that it is in fact a news magazine, and therefore they censure its shortcomings in that field. For dramatic purposes, Time also likes to use affairs of state which already seem dramatic to the average reader and nothing nowadays is more apt than the cold war.

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PERIODICALS; CRITICISM; TIME (Periodical); COLD War; CRITICS

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H.L. Mencken, "An Eminent American," July 11, 1923.

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