Posted on 03/02/2005 5:31:42 PM PST by wagglebee
For a story about Martha Stewart's new "makeover" as she prepares to leave prison, Newsweek magazine created a cover photo using the homemaking maven's face but someone else's slim body.
The story said that while Stewart and her media empire face many challenges, prison has been good for business and her figure, helping melt worry lines and about 20 pounds.
She's expected to be freed from the West Virginia prison Friday to begin five months of house arrest.
"Paparazzi photos reveal a fighting-trim Stewart strolling the lush grounds of Alderson (a.k.a. Camp Cupcake) with her daughter, Alexis," the Newsweek story says.
The magazine's editors believe there's nothing wrong with their "photo illustration," which they note was identified as such inside the magazine.
"Anybody who knows the story and is familiar with Martha's current situation would know this particular picture" was an illustration and not a photograph, said assistant managing editor Lynn Staley, according to the Associated Press.
The Newsweek story said, "Prison, it turns out, has been Martha's best career move since she broke out of Westport, Conn., 23 years ago."
Since her sentencing last July for lying about a stock sale, stock in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has quadrupled, making her a billionaire once again, the magazine reported.
She now has two new television shows prepaing to launch, and a fourth line of her Bernhardt furniture will be unveiled this summer. Also, the merger of Kmart and Sears could double shelf space for her housewares, and her name could soon be stamped on a variety of products, including women's clothing and DVDs.
In June, a federal court sentenced Stewart to five months in prison, five months under house arrest and two years' probation today for lying about her 2001 sale of ImClone stock. Stewart unloaded her shares after receiving a tip from longtime friend Sam Waksal a day before the company announced bad news, sending the stock plunging and saving her $51,000.
Stewart resigned as CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., once a $1 billion media empire, when she was indicted in 2003.
Off with their heads!
Martha STOLE from honest stockbrokers, people who dont rely on insider information. Why is the left embracing this woman?
It's a slap in the face, there are plenty of decent people at Wallstreet doing things the honest way, because don't happen to have the connections and friends Martha does.
If you're going to clone the witch..
Put her on a noteworthy body!
If Martha Stewart was a Republican, Newsweak would be wailing about why she was being released from prison so soon.
BUMP to that.
Doesn't look doctored to me....
Yep! Libs definitely stick together.
A friend of mine, former prosecutor, knows a Federal Assistant DA who worked on the Stewart case. Pumping my friend for info, I asked him what he could tell me about her. He said, "Think RUDE and MEAN. Now double that!" She reportedly said to the Fed ADA, "I'm too BUSY and IMPORTANT to be bothered by the likes of you!"
And I thought the woman was supposedly so "smart?!"
And just think, a few months ago we thought all they faked was the news!
Me either.
Yes! Michael Moore has bigger Boobs than that. :-)
"Fake photo" stamped somewhere on the photo seems like a reasonable way not to mislead, if that was their intent.
I'm just a dumb conservative--as the DUers remind me, but did anyone think of this: Doing what Time and to a lesser extent what Newsweek used to do: DRAW A CARICATURE. National Review still does that, so it can't be a cost issue.
It's not a cost issue. It's a way of conveying a false impression to 99% of their readers while maintaining some plausible deniability for doing so.
295,600,000
people in the united states and only a handful are seen, over and over and over ....
why are baba streisland, tiger woods, julia roberts, oprah winfrey, martha stewart, ... in our face?
"put no idols before you".
check out:
http://www.nhfreepress.com/
Martha denies Photoshop charge
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