Posted on 05/23/2005 4:02:47 AM PDT by SkyPilot
With Newsweek still reeling from its forced retraction of the Quran-in-the-toilet story, the magazine is now under fire for publishing what some see as staunchly anti-American covers in foreign editions.
International edition of Feb. 2 Newsweek
For instance, while a Japanese edition of Newsweek dated Feb. 2 published a cover story featuring an American flag in a trash can under the headline, "The day America died," and the international edition featured a photo of President Bush with the headline, "America Leads ... But Is Anyone Following?," the U.S. edition cover story was an "Oscar Confidential" featuring Hilary Swank, Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio.
The cover story in the foreign editions, titled, "Dream on, America," about what Newsweek characterized as "the world's rejection of the American way of life," did not run in the U.S. edition of the magazine.
Japanese edition of Feb. 2 Newsweek
The Japanese edition of the magazine is raising the ire of bloggers for its illustration of a dirtied American flag, its staff broken and discarded in a trash can.
"I think they have crossed the line into outright treason," wrote one blogger yesterday. "It's time to see some of these enemy propagandists hanging from the end of a rope."
U.S. edition of Feb. 2 Newsweek
Some Newsweek international readers noticed that the story didn't run in the U.S.
"Why didn't this fine story run in my U.S. edition?" wrote one letter writer in the March 14 edition.
The Japanese cover story was noted on the blogsite Riding Sun, produced by "a New Yorker living in Tokyo."
"Newsweek's false, retracted story about American guards flushing the Quran down a toilet at Guantanamo doesn't necessarily mean the magazine's staff hates America or Bush, or wants us to lose in Iraq," wrote Rising Sun. "To be charitable, let's just chalk that one up to sloppy journalism. But I'm at a loss to explain this."
Inquiring minds want to know....Grrrrrrr....
How dare they!
Good idea. Saddle up, bloggers!
....Do we get to riot now.....
I'm strapping on my bomb belt as we speak.
Tell me where to show up.
Newsweek is pure anti-American propaganda.
nice pic, zot be your fate.
Perhaps they believe us great unwashed don't know how to use that Internet thingy.
no I was just busting the lurkers/newbies balls.
bump for later.
Found the translation of the cover text on the Japanese edition at Little Green Footballs:
LGF reader rickadams translates the cover text:
The red text at the left just above the “Newsweek” logo says:
“America forsaken.”
The big white and yellow text says:
“The Day America Died — The ideal of ‘freedom’ falls to the ground due to Bush continuing in office.”
Both of the above editions featured a cover-story article by Andrew Moravcsik, titled "Dream on, America". (This was translated into Japanese as "Yume no kuni Amerika ga kuchihateru toki", which is even harsher; it means, roughly, "America, the dream country, is rotting away".) According to Newsweek itself, the article described "the world's rejection of the American way of life."
Bastards. They've just spit in the face of every veteran who has ever shed blood defending this country and that flag. Sick bastards.
I remember MSM talking heads telling me all week that Newsweek does not hate America. Oh really?
This only proves the point that newsweek KNEW EXACTLY what they were doing and what they wanted to cause.
Newsweek needs strife to sell mags.
Now is the time to attack the newsweek advertisers.
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