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As good as the article is, the cover is better.
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I remember reading the special issue about the ‘88 campaign, days after my 18 months working on the Dukakis campaign ended in sad defeat (and later, reading the book), and having all my important questions answered about what really happened.
Not sure how to feel about this: Newsweek will stop sitting on election-related news in the 2012 cycle:
It has been one of Newsweek’s signature ventures and a staple of American political journalism since 1984.
Every presidential election season, the magazine detached a small group of reporters from their daily jobs for a year to travel with the presidential candidates and document their every internal triumph and despair — all under the condition that none of it was to be printed until after the election.
Then two days after Election Day, the sum of their reporters’ work would appear in the magazine. But the ambitious undertaking, known inside the magazine simply as “the project,” is no more. [more]
National Organization for Women: ‘Newsweek’ Bachmann Cover Is Sexist
(WASHINGTON) — Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), disagrees with Rep. Michele Bachmann’s policies, but O’Neill told ABC News today that she believes Newsweek’s portrayal of Bachmann in this week’s issue is “sexist.”
“I think it’s sexist. She is a serious contender for the presidency of the United States,” O’Neill said in a phone interview from Washington, D.C. “I don’t see a single serious male contender who has ever been portrayed on Newsweek or a similar type of magazine in that fashion.”
“It’s the combination of the snap the photo of her with her eyes very wide — people call it ‘crazy eyed’ — plus that huge label they slap on her as the ‘Queen of Rage,’” O’Neill continued. “Her policy positions are diametrically opposed to NOW’s positions and I intend to defeat her. That’s my job. But no male politician is treated this way. As much as I disagree with everything she stands for, she is a serious viable candidate for the United States presidency and there is no male viable candidate who has ever been treated this way.”
“What you’re talking about is sending a message to good women everywhere who would be wonderful presidents that they better not to step out of line, that they better not try to be leaders in the political sphere because they will be shamed — and that’s what this cover does.”
1995 article assures you: the internet will not replace your newspapers and shopping mall.
(via robot-heart-politics)
How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one’s a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn’t work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, “Too many connections, try again later.”
Won’t the Internet be useful in governing? Internet addicts clamor for government reports. But when Andy Spano ran for county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., he put every press release and position paper onto a bulletin board. In that affluent county, with plenty of computer companies, how many voters logged in? Fewer than 30. Not a good omen…
Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn’t—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.
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