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So not surprised…
September 25th, 2006 at 1:54 pmWell, it’s important that we don’t fall back into a pre-9/11 mindset.
September 25th, 2006 at 1:56 pmAmazing. Does Newsweek have an explanation?
September 25th, 2006 at 1:57 pmGuess which cover is being featured on DrudgeReport.com?
September 25th, 2006 at 1:59 pmI wonder why americans are so complacent?
September 25th, 2006 at 1:59 pmThis would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:01 pmThe state of the US news media is a joke. 5 minutes of watching Katie Couric mouthing off on Tom Cruise baby is enough to make me puke. People are dying in Iraq, but our media is more interested in celebrity worship.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:02 pmSo in the words on the NeoCons, “Why is Newsweek helping the enemy?”
September 25th, 2006 at 2:03 pmWell, I gotta agree that this is absurd. Immeditaely after 9/11, the media engaged in self-flagellation, saying that it had failed to cover world-events adequately and had not sufficiently discussed world affairs and other international issues, such as terrorism and failed states….They claimed they had learned their lesson….Oh well…Guess not. Pathetic.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:03 pmI find it disturbing that Newsweek would censor its international editions to avoid showing other parts of the world what really is important.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:04 pmThe dumbing down of America in full sped mode.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:04 pmGreg Palast calls living in the United States being behind the ‘electronic Berlin Wall’ – this is a great example of what he means. You can find out for yourselves – make a trip to Canada…read the papers, watch the news, talk to people. I saw Bowling for Columbine again this weekend and I was reminded of that stark difference between the US and Canada.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:05 pmThe stench is almost unbearable. Germany’s little corporal rose to power because of corporate, media, and political appeasement.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:10 pmBury your head in the sand much?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:15 pmWow. All I can say is, Wow. No wonder people still think Iraq was responsible for 9/11.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:16 pmFor crying out loud – I recently stopped subscribing to “Time” after many years because I thought they were starting to lean right and went to “NewsweeK” which has seemed more balanced.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:18 pmThose liberal media types are ruining amerika..
September 25th, 2006 at 2:18 pmWow, normally I’d be so delighted to get an artist on a cover of a national magazine, but this is insane. The rest of the world gets the real news, and we get the watered down version. As if outcome of Afghanistan was less important to America than rest of world. And reeks of bowing to political pressure. Shame on Newsweek. Shame on them.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:20 pmThose liberal media types are really screwing Amerika up…
September 25th, 2006 at 2:20 pmTypo in your post – I think it is “NewsWEAK”…
September 25th, 2006 at 2:20 pmha ha ha. Nice work, TP.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:21 pmA sequence of pictures says more than all political speeches.
At least Newsweek didn’t use the Fox News All -Purpose Question Mark. As in, “Losing Afghanistan?” It’s pretty well confirmed we are.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:21 pmthere goes the liberal media again…
September 25th, 2006 at 2:21 pmwhat, no “hat tip”? … you’re welcome…
September 25th, 2006 at 2:23 pmYou remember when an adult accused you of being in La La Land? Guess what, we are living in it! Ain’t it grand? I’m so glad the serious stuff doesn’t muddle our obsession with the inane. Hook ‘Em Horns!
September 25th, 2006 at 2:23 pmAnd it’s a wonder we’re thought of as a blatantly misinformed country by the other 95% of the world. No surprise. My solution is to stop purchasing magazines and other press that coddle the populace. It’s an insult to my intelligence. We can decipher “news” by reading and listening to lots of avenues…the truth does eventually “out”.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:24 pma real gotcha moment …except that the average ‘Murkan will never know about it. They are being manipulated and most are more than happy not to know. The few of us that already know and care have no real way of waking up the dullards who just want to be told what to do: be afraid, dada preznit knows best, hate liberals, a vote for republicans is a vote for God, etc., etc. So this really will amounts to nothing.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:24 pm.
Why does Newsweek embolden the terrorists?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:25 pmThe power of hegemony…sad very sad.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:28 pmI can’t believe I agree with Exley! The media in this case is not left or right, but simply bad. Seriously, was the other cover too offensive for Americans? Guess I’ll leave the hard-hitting reporting to People or Cosmo.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:29 pmMaybe the editor used to work for Annie as an assitant and sees some humor in it.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:30 pmdumb dumber dumbest
September 25th, 2006 at 2:33 pmSettle down. This has an explanation: Newsweek doesnt want the troops (asidious readers of Newsweek and not Hustler or Barely Legal Magazines) to lose morale.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:33 pmNewsweek is just another arm of the neo-con(nazi) Republican propaganda machine. This proves it
They should just change their name to Foxweek now.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:33 pmTypo in your post – I think it is “NewsWEAKâ€â€¦ C
Comment by Robert —
Good take by Robert. And hats off to TP for catching this.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:33 pmAs Yogi Berra put it, “It’s deja vu all over again.”
September 25th, 2006 at 2:33 pmAnnie Leibovitz’s life in pictures is infinitely more important to Americans than losing Afghanistan. Come on, people!
September 25th, 2006 at 2:35 pmI was talking with someone today and I knew they were a rigthie but it wasn’t about politics so everything was smooth. I brought up about my time in the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe, Bulgaria. First question out of his mouth was, “Do they like us there?”. Not, What was it like, How was it, What is the culture like there? When I told him how the government was part of the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq and they are part of NATO but to me it seemed the people didn’t hold the US in high regards he said “Well at least the governent has enough sense to stand with us. Most of them over there are idiots.” Very telling. Why do conservatives want the rest of the world to like us…sorry bow down to us…and if they don’t they are just dismissed as idiots or ungrateful. Immaturity?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:35 pmAlso note that – to add to the insult – our “media” having so little faith in their reader’s ability to accept reality. Give us citizens credit! We’re not so dumb!!! What are they afraid of? LOSING MONEY. Sick ain’t it?
September 25th, 2006 at 2:37 pm26: You betcha they coddle the American public. Those that read Newsweek are ill-informed already. This further proves it.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:38 pmDoes anyone know what the mission in Afghanistan is
I think its to do with proping up Karzai as President of Afghanistan although nobody wants him anymore as president
Now Bin Laden is (pos) dead and nobody knows where he is I think without a proper mission …..the troops should be coming home
I would also apply this logic to Iraq
Tell us what the mission exactly is or bring the troops home
time for the War on Karma to be officially over
September 25th, 2006 at 2:39 pm#26, you’re right. Those that are still reading Newsweek are ill-informed anyway.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:45 pmPLC: “I recently stopped subscribing to “Time†after many years because I thought they were starting to lean right…” – - Interesting. I cancelled mine a few weeks ago after the Mark David Karr coverage and wrote them a letter saying I didn’t need to read their version of People Magazine.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:47 pmExhibit A for the dumbing down of America.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:50 pmWar only exists in other parts of the world. Our shores are protected from such trivial matters. War is a comma to America.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:55 pmWhat a great way to KILL circulation!…..2 face news!!!! …removing them from my list of NEWS mags.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:00 pmWhy do conservatives want the rest of the world to like us…sorry bow down to us…and if they don’t they are just dismissed as idiots or ungrateful. Immaturity?
Comment by dlet
Your tour in Bulgaria must have been very interesting. I find that many liberals or progressives have toured or lived abroad and have a good sense of the world. Perhaps you should have pointed out to that guy that the US is one of the few countries in the world whose rightwing still prefer to have a king leading them.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:02 pmDummy Down America
I mean……Keep it Down America.
Do not think
Do not question
SHOP……Shop……shop…..shop…….
WE WILL PROTECT YOUR FEARS
September 25th, 2006 at 3:04 pmI think I’ve worked out what the pre-9/11 mindset is now: objectivity.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:04 pmI see the elitist corporate media is at it again, gotta keep you sheeple, left and right, uninformed and battling each other.
When will the left and right ever catch on?
September 25th, 2006 at 3:05 pm30 oxillini; it appears that you don’t have the capacity to think for yourself. Why comment?
September 25th, 2006 at 3:12 pmWashington, D.C., January 26, 2006 – A secret Pentagon “roadmap” on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for “boundaries” between information operations abroad and the news media at home, but provides for no such limits and claims that as long as the American public is not “targeted,” any leakage of PSYOP to the American public does not matter.
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, amended in 1972 and 1998, prohibits the U.S. government from propagandizing the American public with information and psychological operations directed at foreign audiences; and several presidential directives, including Reagan’s NSD-77 in 1983, Clinton’s PDD-68 in 1999, and Bush’s NSPD-16 in July 2002 (the latter two still classified), have set up specific structures to carry out public diplomacy and information operations.
James Bamford, “The Man Who Sold the War: Meet John Rendon, Bush’s general in the propaganda war,” Rolling Stone, November 17, 2005, available at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/store/_/id/8798997.
PSYCHE YOUR MIND 45X
September 25th, 2006 at 3:19 pmtheswan – you must be seeing/reading something different than i am…
September 25th, 2006 at 3:21 pm#9
Exley – good to see we pretty much agree on at least one thing. :-)
We have traded posts in the past re: the pre-Iraq invasion info available to this president and (in my opinion) the poor choices he has made given the quality and proximity of this info.
Your response, if I may paraphrase, was that there was a lot of info out and he apparently went with some of the other stuff he had read.
I was going to ask you give me some examples (who wrote what things?) to see if they could “trump” the US Army War College, Schwarzkopf, etc.
I did not include the pre-invasion National Intelligence Estimate as another source that – if heeded – may have led to better decisions. But there is a new NIE out now – so we can discuss this one in “real time.”
What are your thoughts regarding this report?
President Bush received the National Intelligence Estimate, which “represents a consensus view of the 16 separate spy services inside government.†NIEs are “the most authoritative documents that the intelligence community produces…and are approved by John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence.â€
The American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks…The report “says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,†said one American intelligence official.
Do you see why I referred to the “difficult times” you mentioned in a previous post as “self-inflicted” upon the American people by its president?
September 25th, 2006 at 3:23 pmtheswan,
Thank you so much for your insight. Well put.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:23 pmSeig Heil!
September 25th, 2006 at 3:27 pmPlease help digg up the original article that this TP post mentions:
clicky.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:32 pmNewsweek has taken down this picture foursome that used to be here:
September 25th, 2006 at 3:36 pmhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/
And replaced with the only newsmagazine cover us Amerikans need to know about.
Given that commentary on a subject as complex would require not only a reporter who could express those idea cogently but actually understand them enough to begin, immediately excludes 98% of the journalists out there. Of course our media considers the bulk of America as a sea of mindless rubes anyway so the idea that we might want to discuss world topics doesn’t even occur to them, and the longer we put up with that attitude, the more true it appears to be. Sad…
September 25th, 2006 at 3:36 pm… just goes to show that the US media is as liberal as the conservatives who run it.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:40 pmReally, how can anyone after seeing this not realize they’re trying to mind control us???
September 25th, 2006 at 3:41 pmLooks like I need to email them. Lookin for a contact email they will (might) read. Don’t think I’ll renew. I’m not sure, is an election five or so weeks out!! Anyone have a link?
September 25th, 2006 at 3:41 pmOldcranky
Oldcranky
I was unable to locate an email address for Newsweek but I was able to find a toll free number to call- 1-800-631-1040. In all likelihood, I will be calling them to cancel my subscription. For Newsweek to place that innocuous photo on their magazine in place of one that presents the grim realities of war is simply beyond the pale. Apparently the last thing that the corporate media wishes to do is to get the average American to realize that he or she has a brain and that the function of the brain is to think and, hopefully, question authority.
September 25th, 2006 at 4:09 pmIs anyone really surprised? The uproar from the retarded right would be outrageous. The decibels would be measured along with that of Mount Saint Helens.
I have now argued for the last three years that we’re going to lose Afghanistan. We hadn’t put in enough money, time or effort into the project.
We armed and financed the warlords. That cannot be a formula for stable government. Now that most of them are drug runners, the Bush administration acts surprised that they’re having difficulty controlling them.
Poppy anyone?
September 25th, 2006 at 4:27 pmwell, let’s keep our heads on straight here – as far as I know, they are still printing the Afghanistan article in the US edition, it’s just not featured on the cover. People will get the news about Afghanistan if they bother to pick up a copy and read it. Don’t get me wrong – it still makes me sick to my stomach that they chose the Liebovitz cover over the Aghanistan cover – but saying they’re censoring it, or suppressing it in order to control our minds is silly. There’s plenty of room to get mad at a marketing department for helping to dumb down America without getting into fantasies about American turning into a police state. If they were suppressing the information that, why would they print the article in their magazine at all? It’s getting printed.
if you want to yell at the editors (I just did): letters@newsweek.com
September 25th, 2006 at 4:34 pmI have subscribed to Newsweek for many, many years always believing they were more fair and balanced in presenting the news. In recent times, I have questioned their judgment, and this magazine cover is an example. I will be writing to express my opinion to them.
September 25th, 2006 at 4:46 pmNewsweek is still a better magazine than Time or US News/World Reports, but they have disappointed me lately and they should hear from a loyal subscriber.
There, there Americans. here is your juice and your nice happy picture book… go sit over there and dont worry about a thing.
September 25th, 2006 at 4:52 pmLook again. This is Newsweek appeasing anti-American attitudes in Europe because that is what sells. It doesn’t surprise me that the anti-American left would accept the Orwellian spin being piddled about here as fact.
September 25th, 2006 at 4:57 pmCurrent Newsweek Covers…
And just why, again, do you say Americans do not have an accurate view of the happenings outside their borders?
Newsweek’s latest cover, by geographical region: [thinkprogress.org]
The real question is (and I agree with fredo)– Why has Newsw…
September 25th, 2006 at 5:13 pm#68
Okay – Mr. Bothsides.
“Whatever you say” about Europe ….
How do you explain the other two regions? Asia and Latin America? ( Note – I wrote Asia and Latin America – not Asia and Venezuela - there is a difference … )
Why not have four different covers to appeal to the regional tastes of each region? Hey !!! … Princess Kiko of Japan just gave birth to a “prince!”
Wouldn’t that be the equivalent of that “My Life in Pictures?” cover ?
Why is the American cover the only different one ?
The U.S. is fighting the war in Afghanistan – but they choose not to put the story about the possibility of the U.S. losing Afghanistan on the cover of the U.S. edition ….
That doesn’t strike you as odd?
September 25th, 2006 at 5:28 pm[...] Think Progress » Newsweek’s latest cover, by geographical region: [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 5:36 pmAhh, the beauty of the internet. No longer can the media hide their propaganda tactics (or at least not all of them..).
September 25th, 2006 at 6:20 pmThat newsweek cover must be the “good news” coming out of Afghanistan.
September 25th, 2006 at 6:21 pmwar propaganda. End of story. Why is anyone surprised?
September 25th, 2006 at 6:23 pmWhy are the asian and latin american versions printed in english?
September 25th, 2006 at 6:30 pmNewsweek in the US:
Less news, more weak.
September 25th, 2006 at 6:35 pmWE DESERVE ALL WE GET. AMERICA SUCKS ASS.
September 25th, 2006 at 6:42 pmExhibit A for the argument on why we’re so fricking stupid.
September 25th, 2006 at 7:04 pmThe bush suppression machine is up and working well, I see.
September 25th, 2006 at 7:29 pmIt is amazing that more Americans are not waking up! I wonder if it is because of being brainwashed, or laziness? What is it? This country is in the wrong direction!
September 25th, 2006 at 8:43 pmIt’s all very simple and directly tied to corporate profits. Any unsettling news always upsets the ringing of the cash register bell in a negative way.
September 25th, 2006 at 9:04 pmTherefore as Newswretch is published solely for the purpose of profit and not for the news it conveys, they shove on the cover that which will draw the most rubes to their ads and increase cash register receipts. Outside of the USA, reality is a strong selling point, thus the alternate cover; reality in the USA is a genre of TV show. Newswretch’s actions are a reaction and function of the twisted “reality” that is America.
While the covers are an interesting story: how do the contents differ?
If the same, then it might be argued that this ’soft’ story is a clever means by which to infiltrate the traditional American response to unpleasant realities; ie: not buy based on the cover. See the above, by squirrel – a little strident but functionally accurate.
September 25th, 2006 at 9:50 pmIf not, then I’m buying into the thesis of the Shadows; aka the NeoCon Conspiracies. I’ve resisted this far; may be the final straw if so.
This really makes me angry. And if not for TP, I never would have known that the ‘good people’ at Newsweek have decided that I need to be protected from the reality they do not hesitate to show the rest of the world. I would like the Editor to explain the reasoning for this choice. Not that I would believe a word of it, I just want to hear what they would say. I know that BushCo had a hand in this, somehow. It reeks of them.
September 25th, 2006 at 10:35 pm[...] Think Progress Posted: Sep 25, 2006 [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 11:24 pmAh, you beat me to it. I was gonna put this on my site too. When I saw this on the Newsweek site yesterday evening, my jaw dropped. It pretty much says it all aboutr the state of the US media, no?
September 26th, 2006 at 12:26 ami can only hope the upcoming elections are used well by the American people to speak out against this and all the other outrages…
September 26th, 2006 at 12:42 amAMERICA” YOU CAN’T TAKE THE TRUTH”
September 26th, 2006 at 1:19 amThis is what has been happening a long time in the U.S. media. But they have a point ,americans are not familiar with the truth so why f*ck them up any more than is absolutely necessary to manipulate them .
IF americans got the same news as the real world and actually read it they would be more aware and would have stopped their war criminal,totally corrupt government long ago….Informed citizens are hard to control,it’s simple fascism 101.
KARMA is coming to EL DIABLOCO…..eventually , that’s a fact jack.
Look how long it took to capture the first batch of NAZIs .
The real world will do it again .
[...] Via thinkprogress. Thanks Malcolm. Music: Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane :: Epistrophy Filed under: Media, Politics @ 10:24 pm [...]
September 26th, 2006 at 1:22 amA war on two fronts? A dictator thinks that’s a great idea.
September 26th, 2006 at 2:53 amMaybe that is what they thought was meant by a diverse media! Sheeeeesh
September 26th, 2006 at 3:27 amDon’t forget these Newsweek covers, too.
September 26th, 2006 at 4:07 amYou could make the same comparison with domestic Time and Time Europe.
Also compare the CNN home site everyday with the CNN International site. The home site mostly highlights local crimes and personalities. The international site mostly provides real news.
September 26th, 2006 at 5:37 amour society is going to crap, this is how they sell magazines. give the people what they want to hear, nobody wants to hear bad news in the US
September 26th, 2006 at 7:17 amCome on people. Who cares about the lies that got us into these conflicts overseas? We didn’t care about the lies that got Bush into office so I guess they figure we still don’t care.
September 26th, 2006 at 7:43 amCan the lies get anymore obvious!
September 26th, 2006 at 8:34 amHEY, maybe they figured we already know and just don’t want to be reminded?
Did you ever think of that?
HIMMM???
Why pollute our beautiful minds, just because a bunch of A-rabs are being slaughtered?
Who’s family would Jesus sacrifice for oil company profits anyway?
Our righteous Christian folks – or a bunch of sand-monkeys?
C’mon already, get with the program!
September 26th, 2006 at 9:46 amWe can’t be faced with unpleasant images a few weeks before an election. It might cause us to throw the bums out!!!
September 26th, 2006 at 10:19 amThe American peoble go through life in a dream like state, they work eat and watch tv. No wonder they can feed you a whole bunch of crap, its because you are blizzfully ignorant about world affairs. As long as you get your McDonalds, Cokes and dumb tv shows you think everything is fine.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:35 amI TOLD YOU SO
September 26th, 2006 at 12:39 pmCome on people… Think this is the first time there have been multiple covers.
Our media was blocking the true view of what happened on 9/11.
We got the homogenized version of actual events. Our media did’t show the people leaping to their deaths from the upper floors, because they thought THAT would be too graphic for us. If you lived in anyhwere else in the world you would have seen that.
Lets think of the possibility that You are looking at it all wrong, Newsweek could be taking YOUR perspective on the government.
By using multiple covers, they could be trying to appease their anti-American readers outside of the US (which is growing), by showing our mess in Iraq, where as keeping the 49% of Americans who support the war/president in the US happy (because that 49% holds regulatory powers currently)by not showing those images.
September 26th, 2006 at 1:22 pmIt’s not enitrely the fault of the media. If anything what this illustrates is the lack of interest on the part of americans for real news. People here don’t care very much for politics and world affairs for a lot of reasons, many of which have to do with the extreme polarization of idealogies here.
The medias first priority is not to report the news but to make money and they will produce a product that will bring in the most cash from their consumers. So when you see this, don’t blame the media, blame yourselves for watching E, the View, Enterment Weekly, and buying tabloids.
September 26th, 2006 at 1:41 pm#100 and #101
You are both partly right. It was the mindset of the American people in 2000 that allowed Bush to even have a chance of winning the electoral vote.
If you remember – the talk then was mostly about how “likeable” Bush was and how “stiff” Al Gore was. Bush was “funny and folksy and down to earth.” Gore was portrayed as the opposite. “Not funny, stiff, too serious, etc.” Gore had to make attempts to deal with this inane issue by going on Letterman and being (”surprisingly”) funny.
Votes in a presidential election for U.S. president were swung in part by perceptions of “funny.”
The 2000 election was dealt with by the media and many of the voters like a high school popularity contest.
Sad, after 9/11 – it changed a little bit to “likeability.”
I remember seeing Richard Cohen on TV and reading his Washington Post columns during the 2004 campaign. He wanted Kerry to be more “likeable.” This was very important to him. Given this criteria – why not vote for Regis Philbin? He seems to be a “likeable” guy.
I only mention Cohen to point out that this is as much of an institutuional problem as it is a problem with many of the voters.
The elections seem to bring about this crazy moment of hubris in a lot of people. It is like “if a person wants to be president – they have to pass my ‘imaginary friend’ test.” And even so-called “professionals” engage in this hubris. During the 2004 campaign, one of the first things David Brooks of the New York Times said after Theresa Heinz Kerry finished her campaign address was how “notable” it was that there was no mention of a “warm home life.” This, from a so-called “professional” in a post 9/11 world.
Call me crazy, but the hard news media has a responsibility to do more than just feed the public what they want. I see the media as another essential check and balance on the government. What if the Washington Post came to the conclusion in 1974 that the nation “was not in the mood” for the Watergate investigation?
Feeding people what they want is a big part of the “success” of “Faux News.” They know there will always be the “my political party, my country, my religion – right or wrong types” and the “trigger-happy pro-war types.” They have simply recognized that if you feed this crowd the rhetoric they enjoy – this crowd becomes a market share that is as brand loyal as cigarette smokers.
I have seen many attempts by other organizations to mimic the Faux model. Like the Washington Post hiring the “Red State” blogger (until they had to fire him ). The U.S. Newsweek cover was clearly an answer to the “which one do you think the Americans will like better?” question.
So I said you were both “partly” right. The other part to being right is complaining to the editors of Newsweek. Tell them that their is a big difference between having the job of editor for a major news organization and an executive who peddles fashion or music. The editors have to be convinced that the citizens of the US want reality. This message has to start somewhere – so why not with us?
(And when some pundit starts sizing up a candidate for office like he or she is shopping for an “imaginary best friend” – blast them on it.)
September 26th, 2006 at 3:26 pmThat’s easy enough to answer: the bought and paid for MSMs and this includes magazines like Newsweek are given their mission by the Federal Ministry of Propaganda to keep the “unsuspecting” unsuspecting. Well, plenty of us are already suspecting and it is our mission to wake up more of the “unsuspecting” so they along with us can vote out those criminals in office..What is going on in this nation is treason from the top down.
September 26th, 2006 at 4:07 pmSeptember 26, 2006
This is just another example of how the media is owned by fewer corporations now that ever before. I agree with you in your anger (angst), yet not everyone in the USA sees the danger in such a misinformation gap.
I trust the pages shown (as they say a picture is worth a thousand words!) will serve as a wake-up call to some Americans that go sleepwalking through the world’s current affairs. If they would only look up once in a while!
September 26th, 2006 at 4:30 pm“Liberal media”? The last time I checked Kevin Martin was the chairman of the FCC. He was hand selected by Bush and served on his campaign among other things. Info on the “liberal media” here:
http://www.fcc.gov/
September 26th, 2006 at 5:35 pmGreat – the rest of the world gets real news and what do we here in the U.S. get??? A bunch of watered-down celebrity/entertainment type stuff. The series of covers comparing regional issues of the same edition speaks for itself……
This just confirms my “whacked out conspiracy theory” that the U.S. public is deliberately being kept in the dark by news media outlets who are being controlled by the military/industrial complex. Why else would we be getting “news” in the form of lurid local crime stories reported as national news, celebrity gossip reported as real news, stories about runaway brides, missing college co-eds, and other such tripe….
September 26th, 2006 at 7:05 pm1984
September 26th, 2006 at 7:50 pmAmazing all the blame to the media and liberals or conservatives or…??Not one of you has asked who really owns and controls the media in this country. Investigate and wake up!
September 26th, 2006 at 8:07 pm[...] Via Unfogged and ThinkProgress, Newsweek’s current cover as it varies by geographical region: [...]
September 26th, 2006 at 10:06 pm[...] Via Unfogged and ThinkProgress, Newsweek’s current cover as it varies by geographical region: [...]
September 26th, 2006 at 11:26 pmAnnie Liebowitz is not even a celebrity–she just photographs them. It’s such a weak cover visually and subjectwise–pathetic. The international one is very powerful, and Newsweek are just cowards. After the Koran thing, they gave up i guess.
September 27th, 2006 at 1:25 amWhy would Newsweek do such a thing? Why would they keep this profile of Annie Liebovitz from it’s readers in Asia, Latin America and the UK? It just doesn’t make sense…
September 27th, 2006 at 10:37 amIt is censorship/propaganda. Controlling what the american public think by controlling what information they are alowed to see or not see.
September 27th, 2006 at 12:14 pmI believe it is Newspeak, not Newsweek. And everyone remeber, Freedom is Slavery.
September 27th, 2006 at 12:40 pmOh dear, oh dear. And they could have put Tom Cruise’s baby on the cover. Not the one he got pregnant–the other one. And those other covers: foreigners. Such bad taste!
September 27th, 2006 at 3:32 pmThis fits nicely into my view that in american politics there is no “left” and “right”, no “democratic” and “conservative”… there is just “thinking” and “ignorant”… I have to get back to Europe!
September 27th, 2006 at 6:33 pmSeptember 27, 2006
The more the media gives away the secret that censorship is alive and thriving in the USA, the better it is for all of us!!!!
September 27th, 2006 at 8:03 pmSo much for the land of the free. There is freedom if you are saying and doing what the elite wants or allows you to say and do. Go back to sleep America, the Patriot Act has replaced the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and the Congress has abdicated its responsibilities to the Corporations that your children are going to college to someday work for where they will have no job security, no health benefits and no prospect of a retirement plan. Am I ranting? Sorry, I’m just frustrated like most Americans.
September 27th, 2006 at 10:55 pm[...] via Think Progress The US edition of Newsweek featured a story about celebrity photographer, Annie Leibowitz. Frankly, this doesn’t surprise me although I would think that people would find the war in Afghanistan more nteresting than Annie Leibowitz. Is this a case of Newsweek assuming that American’s are less sophisticated than foreign readers of Newsweek? __________________ [...]
September 27th, 2006 at 11:30 pmAn amazingly disgusting manipulation of the news.
Didn’t Fox News blast CNN a few years ago over their variations of reporting the news based on region of the world? Do you think Murdoch and crew will go after Newsweek the same way that they went after CNN? A woefully inadequate source of news…time to end the subscription!
September 29th, 2006 at 2:42 pmCue Monty Python: “Always look on the bright side of life…”
This is clearly just an example of American optimism, and speaks to the tenacity of the American spirit and its ability to remain untroubled by troubling things because its laser-like focus on the elements of life that really matter, like whether or not Britney Spears does threesomes with hot black guys.
I mean, what do you expect Newsweek to report on? Something depressing like torture or the near complete erosion of America’s moral authority in the eyes of the rest of the world? Get real. There are more important things going on — Sweeps Week is just months away.
Love,
September 30th, 2006 at 6:32 amCheeseburger Brown
i dont really know what to think im not smart or anything so who cares
October 2nd, 2006 at 6:09 pmThe media continues to dance around the real issues and what this administration is doing to this country. Why don’t they ask real questions or go after important issues. Karen Evans (Office of Management and Budget0 expressed at a federal conference that the Federal Government is out of money. It is out of money because of the “war in Iraq”. What the media wont tell us is why the U.S. is building the worlds largest US Embassy and compound in Iraq. Yes, they are building an enclosed city. Of all places to build it, why Iraq? I’d like to know why…wouldn’t you?
October 3rd, 2006 at 7:45 pmCrazy! But yeah, I’m not surprised… :-(
October 14th, 2006 at 7:38 pm[...] ::ThinkProgress ::International Herald Tribune [...]
November 16th, 2006 at 1:26 am“Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe.
But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes –
goodwill among men and peace on earth.”
Albert Einstein
Friends,
Let us introduce ourselves to all already active in the process of promoting peace by inviting you to view our web page http://www.peace365.org in which we point out to the invitation received from the United Nation Resolution 55/282 where in paragraph3 it states: …(UN) Invites all …regional and non-governmental organizations, individuals, through education and public awareness… to cooperate with the United Nations in establishing of the global ceasefire. Yes, we are invited.
Let us all accept their invitation by promoting our plea for additional 365 days of peace to the existing resolution and with the united voice in action wipe out wars from the face of our Mother Earth for ever.
Marek and Peppe
December 27th, 2006 at 3:38 pm[...] :: ThinkProgress :: International Herald Tribune [...]
January 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm[...] Think Progress » Newsweek’s latest cover, by geographical region: [...]
January 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pmwow so many trackbacks :D
February 26th, 2007 at 11:27 amwell it is a good post anyway :D
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