TIME Inc

TIME became part of TIME Warner in 1989 when Warner Communications and TIME, Inc. merged. Since 2000, the magazine has been part of AOL Time Warner, which subsequently reverted to the name TIME Warner in 2003.

The shaping of news and views

One insider wrote of TIME:

"For all its tirades against Big Government, Time is a perfect example of a stultifying bureaucracy. The monotonous advocacy of laissez-faire mythology is partially due, as one writer puts it, to a ‘conspiracy of obsequiousness’ at the magazine — the constant tendency to play it safe. ‘Eighty per cent of the effort each week is spent trying to avoid problems,’ says another Time veteran. ‘The nuances of politics, the unconventional perspective, the diversity of opinion are left out because they present problems. It’s always easier to fit things to what you think the top editors will want.’ The bureaucratic system, coupled with its knee-jerk adulation of its corporate brethren, has been the source of Time’s relentless weakness as a purveyor of current events."

It is the function of the experts, and the mainstream media, to “normalise the unthinkable for the general public” as Edward S. Herman put it. TIME has been a major player in advancing the politics of the U.S. corporate interests which it serves no matter where they lead us. Of TIME’s Corporate Directors, Jim Barksdale was appointed to President' Bush’s cronie-laden Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [4] whose Intelligence Oversight Board advises the President on the legality of foreign intelligence activities. They were the first to exonerate Bush over the falsification of evidence relating the WMD [5]. He is also a co-chair of the Markle Foundation [6] a 'Task Force on National Security in the Information Age' operating out of Rockefeller Plaza. This has an impressive array of people with direct experience of propaganda.

"According to the White House, the intelligence advisory board offers the president "objective, expert advice" on the conduct of foreign intelligence, as well as any deficiencies in its collection, analysis and reporting. Created during the Eisenhower administration, the board has played a role in determining the structure of the intelligence community. Indeed, its members have been considered important presidential advisers, receiving the highest level security clearance and issuing classified reports and advice to the president."

TIME’s Jessica P. Einhorn, currently serves as Dean of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. Einhorn is also a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former managing director (succeeding Paul Wolfowitz) at the World Bank. She is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, [7] and a consultant with Clark & Weinstock [8], a Washington public affairs firm, engaged in high level lobbying [9]. Einhorn serves on the boards of directors of Pitney Bowes and the Center for Global Development. She also chairs the Global Advisory Board of J.E. Robert Companies [10] 'A fully integrated global real estate investment management company'. She is a trustee for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund [11] and a director of the Institute for International Economics and a former trustee of the German Marshall Fund. [12]

TIME’s Carla Anderson Hills served as U.S. Trade Representative from 1989 to 1993 under President George Herbert Walker Bush. An advocate of free trade, she was the primary U.S. negotiator of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Also Vice Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, ChevronTexaco, Hills & Company (International Consultants), Lucent Technologies Inc. [13], Co-Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies [14], a Trustee of the Council of the Americas [15] and member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for International Economics.