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Time Tramples Iwo Jima Image
to Push 'War on Global Warming'
Mark Finkelstein
News
Busters
Friday, April 18, 2008
In our nation's history, there are few images more heroic,
more sacred in a civil sense, than that of the Marines raising
the flag at Iwo Jima. Time has now twisted, and enlisted,
that image for its "war on global warming."
Time editor Rick Stengel, making his regular Thursday appearance
on Morning Joe to tout the week's cover story, naturally thought
it was a wonderful idea. He also explained why Time decided
to editorialize in favor of a "massive" effort to
combat global warming.
View video here.
RICK STENGEL: The cover story, I mean there's been so many
stories about the environment and we see them all the time.
And they're often just descriptive. And what we decided
is we wanted to do something something that was prescriptive.
We we wanted to say, you know what? We know there's a problem,
we acknowledge there's a problem, global warming exists.
Here is a strategy for how to handle it. And by using that
famous Iwo Jima image and saying basically what we have
to do is what we did before World War II by creating a great
national effort, national endeavor, to combat this problem.
Using cap-and-trade policy and using new research into renewable
energy and having an efficiency surge with energy all across
the country. This is this massive effort that is needed.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Rick, was it a difficult
decision for you all to take a position where you actually
were advocates for a position or is it something that the
entire editorial staff decided was the direction you needed
to go?
(Article continues below)
Difficult? Hah!
STENGEL: I think since I've been back at the
magazine, I have felt that one of the things that's needed
in journalism, is that you have to have a point of view about
things. You can't always just say "on the one hand, on
the other" and you decide. People trust us to make decisions.
We're experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what,
if we really feel strongly about something let's just say
so. And we've done that a number of times since I've been
back. We did the case for national service, a cover story
last summer. The end of cowboy diplomacy where we said that
foreign policy had to change. I think readers expect that.
I think, look. You guys are up there all the time. On cable
television, people are giving you their point of view, giving
their opinions on something and people want to know that.
So Stengel says readers want to know people's point of view?
Well, since he asked, I think Time's cover is a disgrace.
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BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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