Sarah Palin: Newsweek Cover Sexist – Sarah Palin blasted her latest Newsweek cover photo as “sexist” on her Facebook page.
Apparently, Sarah Palin was angered by Newsweek’s decision to use a cover photo showing her wearing running shorts, which had previously been used as by Runner’s World magazine.
According to Palin’s Facebook post, use of the posed photo meant that “the media will do anything to draw attention — even if out of context,” but then again, the same thing could be said about her.
Documentary photographer Nina Berman hailed the Newsweek cover as “brilliant” and “shrewd” for using a “propped photo where Palin is an obvious participant … to show how far out she is willing to travel on the road of self promotion” while “shield[ing] themselves from what would have been the inevitable criticism if they had dolled her up themselves and posed her the same way.”
The current cover flap isn’t the first time Newsweek has generated controversy with a photograph of Palin.
The October 13, 2008, cover of Newsweek featured an extreme close-up of Palin that seemed to be devoid of the high-tech retouching often employed by magazines. Conservatives claimed this was an obvious attempt to highlight some of Palin’s supposed “flaws,” like wrinkles around her eyes.
Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham told Yahoo! News that the photo choice was simply the “most interesting image available.”
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February 8th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
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