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."
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It was in the Japanese-language edition.
Yes, but it was a BLOG that did finally bring it to light -- not any part of the MSM!
The reason for the delay is because of the riots over the fake Koran-desecration story and Newsweek's lame "apologies" for such.
Already posted http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408214/posts
Tell them that if they continue to advertise in Newsweek, you will bring copies of these issues to the next stockholder's meeting and confront them publically.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408214/replies?c=86
Post #86 lists all Newsweek's advertisers.
It's time for action!
How can we git'em?
...to Conservative Republicans perhaps. The moderates don't seem to be voicing any outrage.
Until these become cover stories and splashed across tv screens as lead stories, nothing will happen of any consequence.
"We need to take a copy of this article and send it to all their advertisers."
Indeed. Newsweek has a right to print any kind of slop that they want. We have the right not to buy the magazine and to make their advertizers think twice about doing business with them.
pong
"I wonder how many other nations' flags have been given this treatment over the magazine's history?"
What flag other than Old Glory even rates a magazine cover? Even laying in the trash our flag looks better and stirs more emotion than any other on Earth. The fact that an American publisher put that cover together is sad and ironic since they're free to do so only because they conduct their business under our flag. (bunch of a-holes!)
Same with Reader's Digest since it was taken over 7 years ago.
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