Two magazine covers next week are in the news.....Newsweek for one that proclaims Barack Obama The First Gay President*, and TIME for what some see as a disturbing photo of a woman and her too-old son suckling on her breast.
I guess you gotta sell the product somehow. Newpapers do the same thing with headlines...mostly tabloids....like the FORD TO NYC: DROP DEAD in the NY Daily News.
[*Newsweek has posted online a half dozen also-rans...covers they considered but rejected in favor of the halo picture.]
[Note: The Monday (sometimes Sunday) Morning (sometimes Afternoon) Media Memo is a regular feature of this website. Coming up tomorrow on the actual MONDAY morning media memo: adopting PR created language in journalism.]
I guess you gotta sell the product somehow. Newpapers do the same thing with headlines...mostly tabloids....like the FORD TO NYC: DROP DEAD in the NY Daily News.
[*Newsweek has posted online a half dozen also-rans...covers they considered but rejected in favor of the halo picture.]
[Note: The Monday (sometimes Sunday) Morning (sometimes Afternoon) Media Memo is a regular feature of this website. Coming up tomorrow on the actual MONDAY morning media memo: adopting PR created language in journalism.]
Some news sources have labeled that kid a "toddler."
ReplyDeleteHa! He seems to be at least six years old. No toddler, he.
Newsweek has long been known as a right-leaning rag.