Newsweek features 'Losing Afghanistan' in international edition, (not US e

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This is Goebbels at work...again!

The United States edition of the October 2, 2006 issue of Newsweek features a radically different cover story from its International counterparts, RAW STORY has learned.
Muriel Kane - Raw Story research director
Published: Monday September 25, 2006

The cover of International editions, aimed at Europe, Asia, and Latin America, displays in large letters the title "LOSING AFGHANISTAN," along with an arresting photograph of an armed jihadi.

The cover of the United States edition, in contrast, is dedicated to celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz and is demurely captioned "My Life in Pictures."

The International cover story begins:

"You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban. In Ghazni province's Andar district, just over a two-hour trip from the capital on the main southern highway, a thin young man, dressed in brown and wearing a white prayer cap, stands by the roadside waiting for two NEWSWEEK correspondents. It is midday on the central Afghan plains, far from the jihadist-infested mountains to the east and west. Without speaking, the sentinel guides his visitors along a sandy horse trail toward a mud-brick village within sight of the highway. As they get closer a young Taliban fighter carrying a walkie-talkie and an AK-47 rifle pops out from behind a tree. He is manning an improvised explosive device, he explains, in case Afghan or U.S. troops try to enter the village."

The United Story cover story begins:

more Rawstory
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Newsweek_features_Losing_Afghanistan_in_international_0925.html

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1. here are the covers:

From http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com /

Newsweek's cover this week by geographical region:

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2. who in the Bush administration gave Newsweek the 'Goebbels order'

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3. Please supply a link

Thank You


OKNancy
LBN Moderator

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4. done

forgot to paste it in

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5. This happens all the time--nothing new

When I was overseas as an exchange student 24 years ago (eeek!), we got TIME and NEWSWEEK delivered to our school in Japan. I lived for those days, as it was one of the few times I had English magazines at my fingertips. (I also started reading up on current events then, instead of just the entertainment news, since I was so desperate for something to occupy my mind.)

I was very surprised when I returned to the states and started looking through back issues of these magazines in my high school library, and found that the cover stories were frequently different here in the U.S. International news and stories were sent out on the international covers, but U.S. entertainment stories (such as the end of "M*A*S*H"), though they contained the same articles, didn't make the cover, presumably because some stories or features sell better in the U.S. Annie Liebovitz would seem to fit that mold, brilliant though she is.

However, if the Afghanistan article has been edited or dropped from the U.S. edition, then it's tinfoil hat time. (I doubt it, though--Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom" column has been drubbing Bush for months now with a "down" arrow.)

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6. everyone knows but U.S.

priceless