Media Critic Glenn Beck On His Shocking Time Cover: Pot Meet Kettle

Glenn Beck took a moment on last night’s show to critique the cover of the this week’s “fringe media” Time featuring him, the ‘Mad Man.’ And to give credit where credit is due he makes a fair observation about the media world: he is not the only media type out there peddling paranoia!

The Time cover story describes Beck as a man “with his ear uniquely tuned to the precise frequency at which anger, suspicion and the fear that no one’s listening all converge…People are scared.” Scared you say? Why might that be? Beck rightly points out that all the top stories on the cover of Time are also rather fear instilling: flu phobia and how fear goes viral, Mason ardor, why the system is still broke. Beck does not own the patent on media paranoia.

It’s not just Time of course, sharp, sometimes shocking covers are have become a last desperate push to get magazines off of newsstands. One need look no further than this summer’s Newsweeks for evidence of that. Beck is arguably just doing a far better job of getting the public to buy into it.

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