• The news is broken.

    The new guy at Time magazine, Richard Stengel , says he’s not going to shake things up, try to return the magazine to respectability.

    The theme was continuity. Mr. Stengel, a past and future Time man, dismissed speculation inside the magazine that a shakeup is coming when he officially takes over for Jim Kelly on June 15. “I’m not looking to go in there and break a lot of china right away,” Mr. Stengel said. “I’ve never had this job before. There are people I’ve worked with through a lot of my professional life.

    “I think people can be re-inspired and reinvigorated. There’s just great talent. If I’m the coach, I look at the players and say, ‘Wow, this is a great team, a winning team.’”

    (pointer from Romanesko)

    Meanwhile, Tim Graham at Newsbusters sees the magazine as asserting that those who favor border control are “hate groups.” (The Time headline reads: “Rousing the Zealots: Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and militiamen are revivified by the furor over illegal immigration.”

    Why would Stengel want to change something that gives us that dross? The news is broken, and no one in the mainstream wants to fix it.