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- July 13, 1992: From the Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- July 13, 1992 Inside the World's Last Eden
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> When it comes to demonstrating quality, TIME, like any product,
- must speak for itself -- and does, week after week, in the
- vivid and dramatic terms that exemplify our style of journalism.
- Still, we believe it never hurts to go outside our own pages,
- and even outside the print medium, to remind people of the
- importance, relevance and leadership of TIME in its field. In
- that spirit, we launched a major television advertising campaign
- last week that is unlike any promotion we have undertaken
- before.
- </p>
- <p> The first phase of the campaign consists of five 30-second
- commercials that will air prominently over the next four months
- on such national shows as the Summer Olympics coverage, 60
- Minutes and Larry King Live. The spots, created by the Fallon
- McElligott agency of Minneapolis, are far from our usual "call
- to action" ads with an 800 number that viewers can call for a
- subscription. Instead, they focus on recent stories that have
- particularly broad significance and impact on people's lives.
- The tag line: "If it's important to you, you'll find it in
- TIME."
- </p>
- <p> Shooting the spots sometimes involved tricky logistics, as
- TIME promotion director Timothy Nix discovered when he
- supervised one illustrating our cover story on the beleaguered
- Colorado River and its effect on the nation's water system. The
- ad required a lone trout to swim in a tank as the water level
- rose and fell. Tim reports that 200 fishy hopefuls were brought
- in from a trout farm, under the care of a trained trout
- wrangler. Dozens had to be auditioned before the admakers found
- a star fish capable of navigating the ups and downs of the role.
- "I kept saying `That's my trout! That's my trout!' because he
- was behaving so beautifully," laughs Tim.
- </p>
- <p> Other commercials encountered fewer problems but employ
- equally memorable imagery to underscore the theme. One
- dramatizes our Nov. 11, 1991, cover story on privacy by showing
- a small round hole being sawed from the other side of a blank
- wall, and then an eye appearing in the hole. Another, keyed to
- our coverage of the Los Angeles riots, shows a touching sequence
- of photo portraits, each of which ignites and burns as the
- narrator quotes Rodney King: "Can we all get along?"
- </p>
- <p> "This is a campaign that reminds readers that beyond
- giving them the news of the week, TIME gives them more," says
- Linda McCutcheon Conneally, our marketing director. "More
- depth, more analysis, more information that can really help them
- live their lives better."
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth P. Valk
- </p>
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