the report:

Newsweek sugars pill for US

 

Dan Glaister in Los Angeles

Thursday September 28, 2006

The Guardian

 

 

For some, the world is a tough place, where armed insurgents threaten at every turn. For others, is simply divine, a cuddly, celebrity-strewn nirvana where success is just a camera click away.

This week, Newsweek magazine - motto "Our voices. Your voices. Every day" - illustrates that division by offering readers in different parts of the world different cover stories. The international edition of the magazine, on sale in Europe, Asia and Latin America, features a fearsome-looking man wearing a turban and pointing a grenade launcher towards the reader. "Losing Afghanistan" screams the hard-hitting headline

 

Instead of a man with a gun, US readers are offered a woman with a camera surrounded by children and celebrities. "My life in pictures," purrs the softly spoken headline over a picture of celebrity snapper Annie Leibovitz. While Leibovitz cradles her children, a pregnant Demi Moore and a smiling Nelson Mandela look on.

Newsweek's international editor, Fareed Zakaria, said that in the US, Newsweek was a mass market magazine with a broad reach, while overseas it "is a somewhat more upmarket magazine for internationally minded people".

 

a very famous Annie Leibovitz photograph

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/LennonAndOno.jpg

 

the question:

 

so will the American nation ever admit its failures in foreign policy? or is a society that believes its always right however wrong they maybe?

the latter....

...the problem in America is the media.

 

I was there 2 years ago and the news is so unbelievably one-sided, it's truly scary. You are led to believe that anyone who doesn't agree with US Foreign Policy is a 'communist'.

 

There simply isn't the choice over there - the national newspapers and the TV stations are all owned by right wingers... and, same as everywhere, people believe what they see in the papers and what the news tells them.

 

It does seem, though, that Americans are treated with kid gloves, whereas we are considered brave and intelligent enough to know the whole truth... so in a way, it's a great reflection on us that we are considered intellectually superior.

...the problem in America is the media.

 

I was there 2 years ago and the news is so unbelievably one-sided, it's truly scary. You are led to believe that anyone who doesn't agree with US Foreign Policy is a 'communist'.

 

There simply isn't the choice over there - the national newspapers and the TV stations are all owned by right wingers... and, same as everywhere, people believe what they see in the papers and what the news tells them.

 

It does seem, though, that Americans are treated with kid gloves, whereas we are considered brave and intelligent enough to know the whole truth... so in a way, it's a great reflection on us that we are considered intellectually superior.

 

Absolutely correct Russ. I look at "Fox News" and "CNN" and all that is to me is basically the US Neo-Con version of sodding "Al Jazeera"..... <_<

 

But of course, we all know who runs "Fox News" dont we...? The 'Dirty Digger' himself - Murdoch.... :angry:

 

America will never admit that it's in the wrong because it is basically a culture which believes that it has the God-given right to do what it wants in the world...

Absolutely correct Russ. I look at "Fox News" and "CNN" and all that is to me is basically the US Neo-Con version of sodding "Al Jazeera"..... <_<

 

But of course, we all know who runs "Fox News" dont we...? The 'Dirty Digger' himself - Murdoch.... :angry:

 

 

does this mean we will have the crazy frog as co-anchor now :lol:

America has a very real problem admitting it messed up but it's going to have to sooner or later.

 

America has a very real problem admitting it messed up but it's going to have to sooner or later.

 

I think Britain, as well as America, or more to the point, the Labour dictatorship err.. government have as big a problem admitting they were wrong.

 

Did anyone see the toe-curling performance of that snivelling little berk Jack Straw on Question Time last night? Talk about a rabbit in the headlights... and even with just about everyone in the room against him and demanding apologies.... he refused to give any.... just 'regret' that Iraq is now a country in smithereens.

I think Britain, as well as America, or more to the point, the Labour dictatorship err.. government have as big a problem admitting they were wrong.

 

Did anyone see the toe-curling performance of that snivelling little berk Jack Straw on Question Time last night? Talk about a rabbit in the headlights... and even with just about everyone in the room against him and demanding apologies.... he refused to give any.... just 'regret' that Iraq is now a country in smithereens.

 

Damn you, you got there before I could.... :lol: Yeah, I watched that little fukkin' turd and frankly I wanted to just jump through the TV screen and give him a bloody good kicking..... Fukkin' t***!!!!

 

This is the man, who, when he was Home Secretary refused to give up Pinochet (Chilean dictator and mass murderer, basically the Latin American equivalent of Saddam..) whom the Spanish authorities wanted to prosecute for the murder of nine Spanish citizens.... He could've been languishing in a Spanish prison by now instead of in his nice big mansion in Santiago..... So every time this turd goes on about what a 'bad man' Saddam was, I just launch into gales of laughter...

 

Good on Piers Morgan though, he really gave the c/unt a bloody good roasting.... :)

...after last night...I'm actually warming to Piers Morgan - quite worrying, that.... but he did give him a bloody good rollicking, that's for sure.. and what Morgan said about Blair...that if he'd used the conference this week not to give his wishy washy cry-baby nonsense speech, "I may be gone - but I'll be watching overe you" (like some deranged Messiah), but to stand there and say, look...I was wrong...we all make mistakes, I apologise, then the British people would think... hang on - he's a brave guy - I actually rather like him for that. He failed to have the balls to do that, and once again failed the Labour Party (or some of them, anyway), failed the British public who put him where he is - and failed himself.

 

Pinochet - don't forget he was a very good mate of Thatcher, too. Evil dictators, it does seem, stick together....

 

 

Pinochet - don't forget he was a very good mate of Thatcher, too. Evil dictators, it does seem, stick together....

 

Thatch never pretended that she was a "fire-brand Socialist" who banged on about 'social justice' though mate, unlike Jack Straw, who as an opposition MP was outraged that Thatch gave succour to Pinochet in this country and wanted to deport him so that he could stand trial for his crimes.... As soon as the c/unt gets into a position where he CAN actually do something about Pinochet, he does absolutely nothing, all he had to do was hand him over to the Spanish authorities (and surely as members of the EU, he was actually obligated to do just that)... THAT makes him worse IMO....

 

 

 

I think Britain, as well as America, or more to the point, the Labour dictatorship err.. government have as big a problem admitting they were wrong.

 

Did anyone see the toe-curling performance of that snivelling little berk Jack Straw on Question Time last night? Talk about a rabbit in the headlights... and even with just about everyone in the room against him and demanding apologies.... he refused to give any.... just 'regret' that Iraq is now a country in smithereens.

I didn't see the program. Can however imagine Jack Straw being a prat this is after all the man that said Iraq is bigger in size then France. Err, no Jack.

Anyway, while the British Government can't admit the mistake it doesn't wash with the British public, and I don't think you can say the same is true of the US public.

I didn't see the program. Can however imagine Jack Straw being a prat this is after all the man that said Iraq is bigger in size then France. Err, no Jack.

Anyway, while the British Government can't admit the mistake it doesn't wash with the British public, and I don't think you can say the same is true of the US public.

 

He actually tried to make out that there was 'cohesion' in the area and that it wasnt an artificial state with carelessly drawn up boundaries..... :lol: :lol:

 

Yeah, cos the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shias they REALLY all get along dont they....? Cohesion????? :banghead: