What Is Newsweek Trying To Hide?

[JABBS]

In Europe, Latin America and Asia, the Oct. 2 edition of Newsweek features a cover story about how Afghanistan isn't the sunny democracy discussed by the Bush Administration.

In the U.S., the Oct. 2 edition of Newsweek features a cover story on celebrity photographer Annie Leibowitz.

One of these covers is not like the others. What's wrong with this picture?

Click here to see the image for yourself.

[MadMaddie]

1. That's interesting........they need to be called on it.....

[file83]

2. Some suggest that's it's a simple factor of "marketing" to the American

audience.

But if that were the case, I'm pretty sure Latin America's cover would have been Hugo Chavez on the cover, not Afghanistan.

Asia would have been something else (Honda's new super clean diesel engine!?)

Europe, I can see the audience being interested in Afghanistan.

But America? WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT AFGHANISTAN!!! Not Annie Leibowitz! That cover fits the likes of Entertainment Weekly, not NEWSWEEK!!.

[JABBS]

19. consider

that in the days before the Internet, the U.S. audience would never have known about the alternate covers -- unless you were traveling outside the U.S.

I'd love to hear the explanation from Newsweek. I doubt one is forthcoming.

[AIJ Alom]

3. I can see the Administrations logic behind this one....pressure Newsweek

to have a cover story about a photographer so the American people do not realize that we are losing the war on terror and hence try to preserve their congressional allies and simultaneously broadcast to our allies overseas that we need the help in Afghanistan by telling the bitter truth.

[peacetalksforall]

4. The right wing can't sell bs outside this country as easily as

they sell it here.

[EFerrari]

5. If yahoo and google filter news, why not Newsweek?

I'm seriously wondering how widespread this practice is -- i.e., if google filters stuff in China, can we assume they're doing it here, too? :shrug:

[BelgianMadCow]

15. You can bet they do

A recent higprofile story I followed using google news all of a sudden had almost no hits left, but DID put a link to the website of the concerned company under their "sponsored links". Obvious doctoring.

Mad me sick and wonder. This was google europe.

[EFerrari]

16. During the bombing of Lebanon, I was putting up articles re

the Isreali peace movement. And I noticed by about my third round that they were getting scrubbed! At first I thought it was just me but no, articles that were up on Friday were nowhere on Sunday. It was creepy.

:(

[BelgianMadCow]

17. So you put up articles yourself?

Wow, didn't know you could do that. Your experience is much more firsthand then.

Sucks.

[EFerrari]

18. No, what I mean is, I was aggregating info for DU.

The articles I found on Friday were ----Whoooooooooooosh---- by Sunday.

I started wondering, is there a filter? How comprehensive is it? Who put it in place? Those questions.

[JABBS]

20. the story is available online

it's just the cover of the physical magazine that is changed for U.S. eyes.

[kath]

22. Well, at least one of the articles ("The Rise of Jihadistan") says

"International Edition" at the top of the web page that it's on - so I'd bet that one is NOT in the US paper edition. Also, someone else noted in the GD: Politics thread about this topic that an editorial about the Afghan debacle is also not in the US edition.


Who's got access to a paper edition to check what's there and what's not??

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. It might be understandable if it were American-specific news

that had displaced the Afghanistan story - eg when Lamont beat Lieberman. That kind of story isn't of great international interest, but is important in the USA. But the article on Leibowitz isn't news, it's 'general interest' that isn't the "this is the one thing you should read this week" - which is what a cover stroy of a news magazibne ought to be. Either they have a very low opinion of their American readers, or they have a political agenda about covering up bad news from Afghanistan.

[tenshi816]

10. Too many people outside the US know the truth, too.

For instance, the guy painting my house has a son in the RAF flying Chinooks with the NATO forces in Afghanistan. He's stationed in Kandahar and says the southern part of Afghanistan is a complete mess, Taliban everywhere, and not enough boots on the ground to fight them. Also, the RAF planes are falling to bits but the pilots are flying so many missions that there's not enough time to ground them long enough to make repairs (not something a father wants to hear from his pilot son).

People are talking about what's really going on there and it's not being covered up by a pile of uber-patriotic horseshit.

[Imagevision]

7. Out Of Country Cover doesn't look too good for GOP in an election year!!

Too bad rolling stone couldn't have done something?...

[MsUnderstood]

8. Wow I love Annie Leibowitz!

How exciting. She is much prettier than the ugly foriegn guy on that European cover. . .I'm gonna buy that american newsweek and read all about her photography of the celebrities.

What? People are dying and the taliban is coming back? LA LA LA LA someone is talking but I cannot hear them LA LA LA LA

*sarcasm off*

[teryang]

9. losing a war is the unpardonable political sin

so obviously the cover choice represents censorship.

[leftchick]

11. interesting

but he GE owns newsweek and we do have an election coming up.....

[Neecy]

13. I thought the Washington Post Company owned Newsweek?

[leftchick]

14. I believe you must be right now that I think about it

but how does MSNBC host Newsweek articles on the net? :shrug:

I just assumed they were all wrapped up together.

[BuyingThyme]

12. What is it they don't want the rest of the world to know about

Leibowitz?

[JABBS]

21. LOL

[riderinthestorm]

23. The US Newsweek has the Afghanistan story in the magazine

I get the subscription and the story is in there, same as the other editions. It's just that the Liebowitz story is promoted on the cover of the US version vs. the Afghanistan story.

In fact, the Afghan story runs first and is just as long and detailed as the Liebowitz story - they were obviously both written to be cover worthy stories.

[kath]

24. Which articles about Afghanistan are there exactly? The one titled "The

Rise of Jihadistan" is labeled "International Edition" on the website, so I was wondering if it made it into the magazine. And what about Wes Clark's op-ed piece stating that we are not winning (I personally didn't see that one on the website, but someone mentioned it in a thread in GD:Politics.