Posted on 02/26/2016 12:38:40 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Two months later, we ran a cover story on Ms. Palin with the tag line "She's One of the Folks." The editor in charge of covers, Bruce Ramsay, said he wanted a more intimate portrait, so we used a closely cropped version of the earlier image.
A female staffer noticed that the crop revealed some untended lip and eyebrow hair, but Mr. Ramsay decided to go ahead with the image unaltered, for several reasons. The magazine had a policy of not retouching photos, and Mr. Ramsay wanted the strong eye contact in the image; in any case, the facial hair was barely noticeable.
Once it hit the newsstands, though, conservative commentators fumed, accusing Newsweek of trying to damage Ms. Palin. One Republican media consultant called the cover "mortifying," "a clear slap in the face." The image "highlights every imperfection," she said. "We're talking unwanted facial hair, pores, wrinkles."
A media business analyst decried it as an insult. "Here's your beauty queen," he wrote. Ms. Palin was "your 'hottest governor from the coldest state.' How do you like her now that you've seen her crows' feet, her clumpy mascara, her bloodshot eyes, her faint mustache, her cakey makeup, her gaping pores etc?"
In short, Newsweek was accused of sexism because we did not airbrush the photo. The truth was, we'd portrayed Ms. Palin just the way we did male candidates.
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I mean does anyone care at all?
I don't. If she were a candidate it would be different, but this is just more s__t the Times does that nobody really cares about.
Whatever complaint one might make about their publishing the picture drowns in the complaint about their thinking what they did was so danged important.
FWIW, here's how they photoshopped Hillary:
And here, good for a laugh, maybe, is what the Internet did with their portrait of Hillary as a testicle.
Pathetic isn’t it, KC? They will follow this fine woman to the grave. Let’s just hope St. Peter has something to say to these creeps!
Julia Baird - Journalist, arm pit hair leg hair you can bet
Well, I be dog. Those are my false fingernails she’s
wearing around her neck. - I thought I’d sent those to
Goodwill; so glad somebody got them that could use them!
:o)
Great painting of John Leguzamo! ;)
Frida Kahlo, always dug her work. But yeah, that ‘stache always bugged me.
I love Sarah crowsfeet and all (don’t tell Todd).
Wow.
Uh,
Whew!!
Very many thanks for that ping.
I say again,
Wow.
She has a droopy eye.
Several orders of magnitude hotter.
Au naturel or retouched?
Sadly, Palin is slipping into the trash heap of obscurity, along with Ann Coulter. She’s done. Sorry ‘bout that. Go kiss your wife. :)
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