{"id":8559,"date":"2006-09-25T13:40:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T17:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8559.html"},"modified":"2006-09-25T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T17:40:20","slug":"the-rise-of-jihadistan-vs-annie-leibovitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-rise-of-jihadistan-vs-annie-leibovitz\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Rise of Jihadistan&#8217; vs. Annie Leibovitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek has a terrific, <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14975282\/site\/newsweek\/site\/newsweek\/\">well-reported story<\/a> in the current issue, written by three of the magazine&#8217;s top writers, on the deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan. As the article explains, &#8220;Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they &#8212; and Al Qaeda&#8217;s leaders &#8212; can operate freely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Attaturk noted, Newsweek even thought enough of the story to put it on the cover. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/rising-hegemon.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/if-you-want-to-know-why-media-is.html\">some of its covers<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the cover of the U.S. edition of Newsweek:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/cover2.JPG\" alt=\"cover2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the cover of the Newsweek for Europe, Asia, and Latin America:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/cover1.JPG\" alt=\"cover1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to understand why Newsweek readers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America get a hard-news cover about one of the most important developments in the world, while we get a fluff-news cover about celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.<\/p>\n<p>Does Newsweek believe Americans are less likely to buy a magazine with Afghanistan on the cover? Is this some bizarre attempt at avoiding a possible campaign issue? Are we really <i>that<\/i> obsessed with celebrities? Someone is going to have to explain this one to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek has a terrific, well-reported story in the current issue, written by three of the magazine&#8217;s top writers, on the deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan. As the article explains, &#8220;Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they &#8212; and Al Qaeda&#8217;s leaders &#8212; can operate freely.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}