Michelle Bachmann appeared on the cover of Newsweek recently, with an extremely unflattering photograph and headline. Adam Clark Estes has a nice rundown of reactions, most of which I agree with. In particular, I appreciate Jessica Grose's begrudging defense of Bachmann:
The Newsweek cover was unnecessarily unflattering. I doubt Newsweek would portray a male candidate with such a lunatic expression on his face. As much as it pains me to admit it Bachmann is a legitimate candidate and major magazines should treat her like one.
From an European perspective: Bachman is a sick lunatic and the citizens of the US should be both ashamed and deeply worried that their country is in a state where such a sick person is regarded as a legitimate candidate.
Congrats to Newsweek to cover that human failure in an appropriate way.
FromWayDowntown
August 9, 2011 at 5:18 AMAfter seeing these pics:http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2011/08/08/michelle-bachmann-newsweek-cover-photos.html
I really cannot say she is misrepresented with the cover pic.
FromWayDowntown
August 10, 2011 at 1:40 AMI completely disagree. First of all, it made Newsweek look even worse to post those "outtakes" pics. Secondly, I think Jon Stewart puts it best:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-9-2011/glazed-and-confused?xrs=share_copy
David Chen
August 10, 2011 at 6:27 AMI guess it is always hard to accept an ugly truth (no pun intended). But when the public only knows blinky-blinky pics bleached in hours of photoshop such a pic might be troublesome.
Make a fuzz about the question if it was right to portrait her in that way and ignore all underlying questions (e.g. How the fuck can so many people believe in such a wacko?). In a country where all ethics in media are long lost mostly thanks to Murdoch's empire you think this picture should spawn a debate?
A bat-crazy candidate is still a lunatic.
FromWayDowntown
August 11, 2011 at 4:39 PM