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makes me want to puke that this is on national TV... - Jeremy Toeman
thosu plastic dolls that pass for reporters on Faux news would freak over an eyelash falling down. - Mavericks of Troy, NV!
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they are right... every one close up can be unglified. pathetic journalism Newsweek. they are welcome to editorialize, but this is not transparent. Julia Piscitelli is FUGLY.... I guess she is blind because she looks in the mirror every morn'n - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
would you like ur picture taken Helen? I'm an artist - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Fox is a travesty and Murdoch should be ashamed of himself. I'm not a US dude but I discovered Fox news a wee while ago. Horrific partisanship. RM should be tarred and feathered and run on a rail. Seriously. - john conroy
John, it's a known fact here in the US that Faux News gets all of it's main talking points from the Bush Admin. Even Canada has banned Faux news from it's airwaves for being a network of propaganda. - Mavericks of Troy, NV!
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it's in his interest. saddest thing is alot of people listen to it and actually fucking believe it. damn rupert. - genieyclo
yes, this is definitely what we should be talking about. - dkb
The 2 chicks on the right appear to be complete and total morons. - RAHwsomeSHEENsauce™
Kinda ridiculous to hate on Fox and not the other networks. It's blind to pretend Fox isn't conservative, and it's blind to pretend the other nets aren't liberal. Most people (hmmm, oddly enough) rail against only those opposite their own views, because the others match their worldview and seem to be simple facts (makes sense). I disagree with and hate them all, and am here to tell ya -- they're all biased one way or the other. And they all suck at delivering news, biased or not. Why watch? - Jeremy Thompson
See http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/0... for an instance of a Democrat photographer intentionally leaving McCain pics unretouched, admittedly. It's all dumb stuff, people being swayed by this, but we know it's a statistical reality. All things considered, the anchor here didn't act nuts or out of control; it was only the lady on the right. - Jeremy Thompson
The true evil of Fox is that anyone who doesn't report a story the exact way it does can be accused of having a (left) bias. In comparison, the BBC would be considered a liberal mouthpiece - poppycock of course, but that's the whole point. - dkb
Newsweek says that they don't retouch any photos as they are a news magazine. I haven't heard whether Palin was offended by this cover herself. It's more than asinine for them to even devote 5 minutes talking about this. It's subterfuge to appeal to women who feel that they themselves should be airbrushed.
They've tried to paint Palin as a feminist but I doubt a feminist would be concerned with something so trivial. The insistence that she be airbrushed smacks of sexism to me. - Kenya
It's difficult to imagine anyone with a more synthetic image than Obama. Hell, we're not even allowed to speak his real name. - Rob Sterling
@dkb: That can be said of ANY agency promulgating news. They all purport it to be fact. Take, for instance, some of Gore's environmental nonsense breathlessly repeated by the likes of the BBC (and the Beeb's environmental "documentaries" that have skewed even presenters' viewpoints, to their dismay); yet anyone who took issue with them is an antiquated flat-earther, equivalent to a Holocaust denier, certainly stupid and possibly evil. - Jeremy Thompson
@Kenya: Sorry, that sexism charge doesn't work. Not even close. We're talking in the same piece about whether Obama (a man, btw) was touched up. I pointed to the last big retouching article about McCain (also a man). The problem isn't male/female, nor is it really about our body images and wellness. It's about relative treatment among individuals and parties in the media. Newsweek need not touch everyone up, since most covers aren't as close up as Palin's, and wouldn't require it. - Jeremy Thompson
What a bunch of crybabies. - Chris Baskind
The best thing about this is that there's a partisan scream about the magazine not being SUPERFICIAL enough haha. - Eric Rice
WAAAA... She looks horrible. She isnt the hot VPMILF that we lust over. Now she is real and looks like my older aunt. - Christopher Welle
Even if you completely ignore the political aspect...Those chicks are freaking dumb. I can't believe they are allowed to talk about news on national television. - RAHwsomeSHEENsauce™
it isn't like this is a legal issue. Newsweek has a right 2b asswipes & CNN has a right to do this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... fact is it is fair game. that isn't the issue. issue is will we take Newsweek seriously in the future or will they start wining like the NYTimes &blame it all on the pains of print media, when it is their behavior that turned us off? Advertising down? you have a website Mr Publisher. maybe it is time to relate to the people instead of being hypocritical snobs. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Perhaps some male viewers watch without the sound on? That's the only thing I can think that might explain it. - Abby Martin
