Cover Girl: Loving the “Sound of Music” reference! (newsweek)
Exhibit A: This is what happens when an attention-starved, hyper-ambitious politician collides with a reader-and-revenue-starved, once-great newsweekly: A bizarro cover with no discernable purpose beyond generating buzz and attention, and an opportunity for selfsame politician to wax indignant. The horror! CNN reports:
Writing on her Facebook page Monday night, Palin said the depiction is flat out “sexist, and oh-so-expected.”
“The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this ‘news’ magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant,” Palin wrote. “The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist, and oh-so-expected by now.”
Is it, though? The photo is real and was taken for Runner’s World earlier this year. So it’s not sexist for Runner’s World but it’s sexist in Newsweek? What if the New York Post ran it? Just asking. It’s certainly saucy, and a different take on Palin than the trim jackets and skirt suits just thisside of sexy that we’re used to. The flag is an interesting touch.
Palin’s gripe is that the photo is being used “out of context.” Beltway Confidential recently dined with a political operative whose worst moment ever was being unable to stop a politician in his charge from publicly eating a pie. He knew, as the politician did not, that certain benign indignities must never be photographed. Newsweek’s exploitative business motivations aside, Palin posed for that adorable photo and maybe she should just own it.
Thoughts?
But how do you make her stay, and listen to all you say? How do you catch a wave upon the sand? (reuters)
