Journalistic Isolationism
Attaturk (via AMERICAblog, where I saw it) had this yesterday, and you may well have seen it yourself before now. But this week's Newsweek cover story is on photographer Annie Leibovitz--if you live in the USA. Sure, she's had an illustrious career and is probably the best-known living photographer, at least in pop entertainment circles. You might even want to read the story here. But if you live almost anywhere else than the USA, you won't get Annie on your cover. No, you'll get a scary-looking turban-wearing man holding a rocket launcher above the headline "Losing Afghanistan." Take a look at the magazine's international page, and you'll see the covers for the European, Asian, and Latin American editions all have the same startling layout. (Perhaps some of our Canadian friends can let us know which edition was distributed there.) I, for one, am just as happy, though. How would we be able to lull ourselves into a false sense of security of our newsmagazines insisted on promoting actual news?
posted by Doug @ 1:46 AM
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How would something like that happen? I mean, if we lose Afghanistan will we lose their heroin as well?
Well, we'd still have Columbia wouldn't we?
It could've happened any number of ways. We might've just absent-mindedly put Afghanistan down somewhere without paying attention. We might've just gotten busy with something else and not even have noticed that we let go of it. Or perhaps we put it somewhere very safe and have just forgotten where that was. But don't worry--I'm sure someone is keeping very close track of the heroin.
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