Stengel also appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on April 17 and had no difficulty admitting the magazine needed to have a “point of view.”
“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,” Stengel said. “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.”
Time has been banging the global warming drum for some time now. In April 2007, Time offered 51 ways to “save the planet,” which included more taxes and regulation.
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"People trust us to make decisions. We’re experts in what we do." Huh? Can I have some of what you're smoking? Your trust and approval ratings are somewhat below meter maids and your "expertise" has been dragged through your own mud puddles of lies, distortions and ineptitude.
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Now you stoop to disrespecting (some reporters may only understand the term dissing) the soldiers who gave their lives for freedom to prop up your lies about global warming?
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Congratulations, you've lowered the bar so low that even Al Gore can slither over it.