dailykos | Yes, what you see is TIME devoting its cover in international markets
to a critical moment in Egypt's revolution – perhaps the most important
global story this week – while offering Americans the chance to
contemplate their collective navels (with a rather banal topic and
supposition, to boot).
This is not an isolated incident, for perusing TIME's covers reveals countless examples of the publication tempting the world with
critical events, ideas or figures, while dangling before Americans the chance to indulge in trite self-absorption.
