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...emotional commitment to editorial independence has played a huge role in ensuring that Time Inc. retains its position as the world's most trustworthy media company. Jerry has energetically backed the company's unique statement on editorial independence, approved by the board, that supports our work as journalists. In sum, it asserts that the financial success of this company's publications is "inextricably linked to their credibility" and calls for the magazines to provide unbiased coverage not only of our advertisers and customers but, no less important, of ourselves. Readers of Time Inc.'s publications are well aware that...
Things change. Imagine this was a year ago. A movie called "The Sum of all Fears" opens. You discount the implicit hype of the title - who could possibly sum up all the angst you are prey to in the deeper watches of the night? But you truck on out to the theater, and find yourself confronting a well-made, even occasionally witty, thriller in the "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May" vein. Once more, dear friends, on to the brink. You come away reasonably pleased with a slick Hollywood fantasy...
...agitated Washington spinning, concern the apparently lively possibility of a terrorist blowing up himself and your supermarket. Or possibly your apartment building. Or the Brooklyn Bridge just as you decide to take your morning constitutional on it. You exit this film wondering if it should have been retitled: "The Sum of all Former Fears...
...There is a certain irony in all this. At least for the foreseeable future, the damage done by an al-Qaeda bomb plot is likely to be miniscule compared to the kind of vast nuclear spasm "The Sum of all Fears" toys with. But fatalism is the only possible response to deadly games playing at that level. You can only hope the guys in suits also have their thinking caps on. If not, well Que Sera Sera as Hitch (with a little help from Doris Day) once memorably...
...about it, all the time. It is certainly not a topic for popular culture, especially the movies, to shy away from. It's always useful for a fiction to focus on, and help (if only temporarily) discharge our anxieties. You can't finally blame the people responsible for "The Sum of all Fears" for flunking this test. While they were making the movie last year, they were not privy to any FBI memos from Arizona about some weird guys taking flight training. They were probably, justifiably, pleased with their plausible, entertaining variations on standard Tom Clancy themes. Good, for example...