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Time Magazine makes “Five Worst Websites” list
By sage of monticello | July 20, 2007
The first question is how? With literally millions of websites functioning daily, the fact that Time can find five to label the worst seems absurd.
But even if you could label without absurdity, the second question is which websites would be included and what criteria would be used?
One would think that the five websites that would constitute the “Internet’s worst”, would include sites like the KKK, NAMBLA, Westboro Baptist Church; or various jihadist or pedophile sites. Right?
A reasonable person’s criteria for labeling the Internet’s worst websites would include promoting some of humanity’s worst behaviors, such as racism, molesting innocent children, or murdering innocent people in accord with a radical interpretation of Islam and to curry favor with God.
If you thought that, you think much more reasonably then Time Magazine, because as far as I can tell for at least two of Time’s choices politics was the primary deciding factor.
Time’s “Five Worst Websites” includes (click each to see why):
1. eHarmony.com
2. Evite.com
3. meez.com
4. MySpace.com
5. SecondLife.com
It is no coincidence that eHarmony.com and MySpace.com are listed by the frequently leftist Time Magazine. As many are aware, eHarmony doesn’t allow homosexuals access to its services; and MySpace.com is owned by News Corp., which is run by Rupert Murdoch and owns the conservative favorite Fox News Channel.
MySpace.com and eHarmony.com were seemingly included because their politics clash with those of Time Magazine, not because they promote humanity’s worst behavior.
But I suppose to Time Magazine, favoring traditional family values and being liked by Republicans are worse then racism, fondling kids, and killing people.
I wonder what Time would say if News Corp included Time in a “Five Worst Magazines” list. They would probably say something like:
Leave it up to News Corp. to make the criteria for its “Five Worst Magazines” list political. It is obvious that the only reasonTime Magazine, with its sterling unbiased journalistic reputation, was included because their politics clash with those of News Corp. and not because we promote inhuman violent behavior, which, by the way, should be the criteria for inclusion in this list.
What also caught my eye is Time’s problem with SecondLife.com. SecondLife.com describes itself as:
a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.
Sounds strikingly communistic, and therefore leftist, and therefore odd for Time to find problematic.
July 22nd, 2007 at 12:23 am
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