Day: March 26, 2007

Life Magazine will shut down, for the third time, after it releases the April 20 print issue. It is the latest magazine to shut down as more readers desert print publications for online news and photos.

“Growth requires taking risks and the potential upside was huge, but unfortunately the timing worked against us,” Time Inc. Chief Executive Ann Moore said. “The market has moved dramatically since October 2004 and it is no longer appropriate to continue publication of LIFE as a newspaper supplement.”

Duh.

One cool thing though…

Time will make LIFE’s collection of 10 million images available online, with “the most important collection of imagery covering the events and people of the 20th century” available for free for personal use, it said.

That’s smart.

Turncoat.

“Any president who says, I don’t care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don’t care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed — if a president really believes that, then there are — what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that,” said Hagel, who is considering a 2008 presidential run.

So, according to Sen. Chuck Hagel, when a president doesn’t lead by polls he’s committing high crimes and misdemeanors? It’s pretty clear what’s going on here. Hagel wants to be president, and he thinks he can get there by dangling carrots in front of the Nutroots while keeping his GOP membership card firmly in his wallet.

It’s time for regime change in Nebraska.

South Carolina’s “The State” reprints an Edwards campaign press release touting local endorsements for his candidacy. This just seems so manufactured, especially after Edwards’ announcement last week that his push for the White House would continue even though his wife is suffering from a relapse of cancer. I can just about hear the conversation at campaign headquarters. “O.K. guys, you heard the boss, he’s not quitting (yet). Let’s rush out a fact sheet highlighting the support he’s got state-wide. Gotta keep pushing that momentum!”

This would really be news if the state was going for another candidate.