Why The American Media Is Sad: In Four Simple Pictures, page 1
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Topic started on 13-7-2009 @ 10:57 PM by baseball101
Thought you all might enjoy this, it's really quite sad.

Can it be so easily demonstrated why the American media has completely turned its back on journalism? Check it out... Here is the current cover of Newsweek across various areas of the world.

Annie Leibovitz is tired and nursing a cold, and she' s just flown back to New York on the red-eye from Los Angeles, where she spent two days shooting Angelina Jolie for Vogue....

I guess there are no other magazines available to feature stuff like art, photography, pop issues or families and children. Newsweek has to push Afghanistan off the cover in the states to feature this.

Meanwhile the foreign issues note, Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda's leaders—can operate freely.

I guess Newsweek figures what you don't know can't hurt you. Just shut up and look at the pretty pictures of Angelina's baby.

Full Article Here


Another example ...

Time Magazine shows the rest of the world one thing, and America something different.




This week, Time's cover story is an essay arguing in favor of teaching the Bible in schools. On the cover of its international edition is a story: "The Truth About Talibanistan," about the resurgence of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan (and also, Pakistan), and how it's "the next battleground of the war on terrorism." The story is in the U.S. edition of the magazine but not on the American cover, presumably because Rick Stengel & co. think the Bible will do better newsstand.

Full Article Here


Verify Cover's Here At Newsweek's Web Site

This is just ridiculous ... not much else to say besides that.

What are your thoughts?


reply posted on 13-7-2009 @ 11:31 PM by Jenna
They print what will sell in each market.

Checking the newsweek site shows that this week's cover for the US has Holder on it with this as the cover story:


Independent’s Day

Obama doesn't want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway.

Attorney General May Probe Bush Torture Policy

I don't see too many people outside of the US caring too much about our Independence Day or Eric Holder, regardless of the mention of Bush or torture.

The international versions have this as the cover story:

Why Fears Of A Muslim Takeover Are All Wrong

Analyzing the forecasts of an emerging 'Eurabia,' hostile to America and western values.

Dispelling the Myth of Eurabia

This is an article about Muslims in Europe being up to 40% of the population by 2025. Bad as I hate to say it, most Americans aren't going to care what the Muslim population percentage is in Europe.

That is why the covers are different and why the cover stories are different. It's not some nefarious plot, it's marketing.


Edit: If people would actually go to the Newsweek site to check the covers for themselves they would see that Afghanistan is not the topic of either version.

Edit again: The cover with Afghanistan on it was from 2006.

[edit on 13-7-2009 by Jenna]


reply posted on 13-7-2009 @ 11:42 PM by infolurker
reply to post by Jenna


LOL, Oh we do care very much about the make-up of Europe... last thing we want is a "flight" scenario / mass immigration or native Europeans trying to escape what they created only to come here to recreate the nightmare.

We have enough politically correct idiots here.


reply posted on 13-7-2009 @ 11:45 PM by Jenna
reply to post by infolurker


True, but the only thing that will cause most people here to care is if they start seeing large numbers of immigrants coming over at once. Until that happens, not many are going to care.

And yes we do have enough of those. More than enough actually. Maybe we can send a few somewhere that is running low?
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