STUNNING: Comparing U.S. & World Covers for TIME Magazine

[Karee 4,189]

Each week, TIME Magazine designs covers for four markets: the U.S., Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. Often, America's cover is quite, well – different. This week offers a stark example.

Witness:

Yes, what you see is TIME devoting its cover in international markets to a critical moment in Egypt's revolution – perhaps the most important global story this week – while offering Americans the chance to contemplate their collective navels (with a rather banal topic and supposition, to boot).

This is not an isolated incident, for perusing TIME's covers reveals countless examples of the publication tempting the world with critical events, ideas or figures, while dangling before Americans the chance to indulge in trite self-absorption.

Witness these stunning dichotomies:

Viewing these covers, a question must be asked: do these moments of marketing (through a choice in covers) reveal more about Americans, or about the state of American journalism?

I fear the answer.

Source:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/25/1039957/-STUNNING-Comparing-U-S-World-Covers-for-TIME-Magazine

[mota bhai 2,675]

STUNNING is an overstatement.

[lostinblue 1,989]

The Kenyans foreign policy has proven to be a "failure"......Iraq wanted the U.S. military to stay for protection....Iran ...failed to support democratic reformers in 2009...Egypt ..chaos is the only way to describe this country. and the Kenyan flounders.Putin treats he Kenyan like he is a second grader. One disaster on the world stage after another. ...with no clear direction.. and we don't have to touch Syria.....The state run media complex has covered for the this man from day one. Disasters overseas and the Kenyan worries about his next golf vacation.

[kytwell 179]

I read that the stories that are featured on the cover in the other markets, do make the magazine. What I'd like to know is do the stories on our cover, make it into the magazine in the other markets?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

The media in this country is a joke. While stunning, it isn't remotely new.

But something something Kenyan something.

Edited August 20, 2013 by Penny Lane

[Teddy B 17,251]

The Kenyans foreign policy has proven to be a "failure"......Iraq wanted the U.S. military to stay for protection....Iran ...failed to support democratic reformers in 2009...Egypt ..chaos is the only way to describe this country. and the Kenyan flounders.Putin treats he Kenyan like he is a second grader. One disaster on the world stage after another. ...with no clear direction.. and we don't have to touch Syria.....The state run media complex has covered for the this man from day one. Disasters overseas and the Kenyan worries about his next golf vacation.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

The Kenyans foreign policy has proven to be a "failure"......Iraq wanted the U.S. military to stay for protection....Iran ...failed to support democratic reformers in 2009...Egypt ..chaos is the only way to describe this country. and the Kenyan flounders.Putin treats he Kenyan like he is a second grader. One disaster on the world stage after another. ...with no clear direction.. and we don't have to touch Syria.....The state run media complex has covered for the this man from day one. Disasters overseas and the Kenyan worries about his next golf vacation.

I wonder what you call our president when no one is around.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

It's hard to take him seriously at this point.

[Karee 4,189]

It's hard to take him seriously at this point.

I see you made bail.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Looking at these covers (all 2 years or more old) and seeing the usual knee-jerk comments I thought Hmm, sensationalized BS.. You can go to time.com and browse through all four world area covers.. While not as severe as the main post shows, and there are examples of the cover changing in the other areas in the same manor (Europe several times, Asia a couple of times).. The US TIME covers really do tend to put the world news secondary..

Maybe they do it based on the most emailed-about stories on their site:

• School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys
• Sen. Cruz Says He'll Renounce Canadian Citizenship
• Field of Dishonor: Famous American Court-Martials
• Women Who Cheat Get the Most Messages on OKCupid
• High Times in Montevideo: Uruguay Entering Brave New World of Pot Legalization
• Don't Call Him A Freak: Colin Kaepernick Opens Up On Quarterback Sociology, Tattoos, Adoption
• German Visitor Bitten by Shark on Life Support
• Check Out the Car Custom-Designed for Millennials, By Millennials
• Having It All Without Having Children
• The Key to Happy Relationships? It's Not All About Communication

Edited August 20, 2013 by OnMyWayID

[Karee 4,189]

STUNNING is an overstatement.

I guess dailykos.com is hurting for web traffic.