The thing speaks for itself, and then some....

We can only guess that it's because it sells magazines at the checkout stand at the grocery store. There's lots of them throughout the country and lots of people buy that crap. I seriously doubt that the magazine editors buy into that nonsense. They, indeed, produce a commodity for sale. Thinking has nothing to do with it. But the rival rags have compelling stories about BatBoy, and Jeebus' tour of heaven, and so it goes. But maybe I'm too cynical.

and Newsweek doesn't have cover story about Che either. These are mass media magazines, meant for a broad audience, and every cover story can't be BAD THINGS IN IRAQ!, TALIBAN!!, WHITE HOUSE SCANDAL!, blahblahblah.

If you fools want to know what's going on in the world, read the Economist and quit your indignant blathering.

Mark, you are a zombie.

You are also a human face on why there is so much ignorance and suffering in today's world, and especially at the hand of our Great Nation. It is morons like you who cannot or will not tell the difference between willful manipulation of the peoples' minds and random editing choices and who justify decisions like this that help shape an angry, cynical, and uninformed mass of fodder such as is about 30-40% of our public.

Enjoy your world, fool.

Nice, Nez you reached the mark of success, the idiot troll has arrived. What a waste of bandwidth. Then again his beautiful mind can't be troubled by the fact that a magazine chose to obscure reality by dodging its own cover story.

Unbelievable, yet totally believable. This nation's people are the least knowledgeable about the war and what this nation's "leaders" are doing. We seem to know more about Angelina's new adoption than what is going on in the Middle East. Honestly I almost have to agree with Mark because a lot people don't seriously care to know about public affairs and if they do they are celebrity related, those magazines do sell. I still can't help but think of Big Brother watching and telling us what we are allowed to know. Teaching the bible in public school shouldn't even be an issue. What ever happened to the separation of church and state (that's right it never happened). Instead we're ignoring what is really going on.

the hypnotized sometimes stir in they sleep

well i agree with you latinasoyme, but i don't think that brings me close to agreeing with Mark, who (I remind you) compares keeping discussion of Afghanistan from the American Public's consciousness with omitting Che Guevara from the cover of Time.

I hear the latest issue of TIME also avoided discussing that nasty lil Purgegate thingie. why do people buy that magazine again? does it have sexy pictures i don't know about?

Don't diss the sexy pic mags man, I learned more from FHM and Playboy than I ever did from Time!

I saw the magazine, but didn't bother reading the story. However, I do remember reading from the Bible in high school English (and yes, it was a public school). But we didn't read it to learn about Christianity. We studied it for the same reason we studied Greek and Roman mythology: so that we would understand a lot of the references in English and US literature.

that kind of studying makes sense to me, cindylu.

i think TIME is a waste of TIME unless you are reading it as pop culture.