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...interest newsmagazine in such an environment? Obviously, it's changed a lot in 75 years. We no longer try to do a recap or digest of last week's news, since we assume our readers are familiar with most of the headlines. Instead, we try to put events into context, anticipate trends, add new insights and facts, tell the behind-the-scene tales and explore the questions others forgot...
TIME's emphasis on narrative storytelling as a way to put events into context is something that suits a weekly magazine. TV and the Internet are good for instant headlines and punditry. The Web is great for allowing people to explore links at their whim and drill down for raw data. But TIME can play the storyteller who comes to your front porch with the color and insights that turn facts into coherent narratives. Part of the process is telling the news through the people who make it. As TIME's prospectus put it: "It is important to know what...
Bhatia calls the BJP's role in the Ayodhya mosque incident a "symbolic repudiation of syncretistic Indian history." One cannot judge 5,000 years of Hindu history by one exception, and this complex event must be understood in context...
...same legal questions are present on the Internet, Lessig said, but the new field asks "whether the different context means you should give different answers to the same questions...
Issac R.S. Hodes '99, who lives in CentralSquare, also stressed the national context of therally...