Is this what passes for "journalism" these days?

[Guy Berger]

"Eating better than organic"

Reading this article made me want to light myself on fire.

Guy

Edited April 27, 2007 by Guy

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

It reminds me of those "advertising programmes" they used to have in the early days of commercial TV in Britain, where a bunch of people would sit around and discuss, in flattering terms of course, a bunch of products.

MG

[mikelz777]

How joyful that person's life must be fretting over and micromanaging things so.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Nowt wrong with a bit of micromanagement - "Look after the pennies and the pounds wil take care of themselves". Old adage.

But I don't think the writer's either fretting or micromanaging. I think this looks like advertising puff: promoting these different chains of restaurants/shops/whathaveyous by recycling their press notices.

MG

[andybleaden]

Fell out with that particular publication not very long after reading it ...

[Brad]

It's a terrible rag. Hasn't been good for goodness how many years. Newsweek isn't that much better either. How could you have any confidence in a mag that brought you People?

[T.D.]

Gee, I haven't read Time for decades.

I live in upstate NY, probably 50-100 mi (roughly) west of the author, and have seen several similar articles, albeit in local and regional publications. So maybe the Time feature reflects some (admittedly small) trend... Far from the weirdest thing I've seen, though rather precious/pretentious.

[Tim McG]

If you guys think this is terrible journalism, you ought to look at the sports page these daze. There was an article about Curt Schilling's bloody sock. They have some third hand information from a MLB manager who said it was paint.

Everything seems to be fair game...true or not, as long as the papers can make a buck off of it.

Tabloid media at best.