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And yes, I'm being snarky here. Via Rising Hegemon (http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2006/09/if-you-want-to-know-why-media-is.html), take a look at the different covers Newsweek used for this week's issue.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/061002_Issue/nw_leftnavcov_OV_061002.jpg

Yep. The rest of the world gets Newsweek talking about the war in Aghanistan, but the US gets Annie Liebowitz.

So to my friends in the rest of the world, if you want to know why Americans seem so damn clueless half the time, this is part of the reason.

You're beginning to sound like me.

You've got it all wrong, it's not the US that is underinformed about Afghanistan. It's the rest of the world that is underinformed about Annie Liebowitz. *nods*

And yes, I'm being snarky here. Via Rising Hegemon (http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2006/09/if-you-want-to-know-why-media-is.html), take a look at the different covers Newsweek used for this week's issue.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/061002_Issue/nw_leftnavcov_OV_061002.jpg

Yep. The rest of the world gets Newsweek talking about the war in Aghanistan, but the US gets Annie Liebowitz.

So to my friends in the rest of the world, if you want to know why Americans seem so damn clueless half the time, this is part of the reason.

Well, if they give us real news instead of "My Life In Pictures" then they might get slammed as "OMG! T eh LIBRUL Media! Why do they hate America!!1one! Why don't they give us good news!!" The war on terror may be losing, but the war on information is going strong.

Is she that little redhead that hangs out with the bald dude and sings all the time ?

You've got it all wrong, it's not the US that is underinformed about Afghanistan. It's the rest of the world that is underinformed about Annie Liebowitz. *nods*
I'm not even sure who this woman is, so maybe you're right. :p (should I? Am I very stupid)
*wikis*
Heh. A photographer. Yeah... does anyone actually care?

Is she that little redhead that hangs out with the bald dude and sings all the time ?
Ummm, no.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/061002_Issue/nw_leftnavcov_OV_061002.jpg


i like how the US version has: News... eek! as the title ;)

i like how the US version has: News... eek! as the title ;)

You win teh thread.

BTW, apparently her name is Annie Leibovitz

You win teh thread.

:) *dances and hands out cake*

What's to complain about? In the US version, Afghanistan snagged the coveted "golden corner", where the most important of news stories are displayed/stuffed into.

What's to complain about? In the US version, Afghanistan snagged the coveted "golden corner", where the most important of news stories are displayed/stuffed into.Is that what the people going along the aisle to buy their groceries will see and remember?

i like how the US version has: News... eek! as the title ;)

You win teh thread.

I concour.

I'm glad that the world is so much better informed than the USA.

Honestly, it's getting old how the lot of you continuosly criticize America. Which brings some questions to mind. Are you capable of coming up with other type threads? Are you not getting tired of basicly the same type of threads and questions and polls? Are you so closed minded and can only think of America's wrong doing, our biased media, and how stupid the Americans are?

I personally, in my own opinion, am getting bored with the same types of hyper-threads. Please come up with new stuff.

I think we all understand that in the eyes of the people on NSG that America can do no right, we Americans are misinformed by our own very biased right wing media, Bush is the Devil, etc...etc...etc...

I think the time has come to move on...............just my 2 cents :D

Pardon my ignorance, but who in the blue hell is Annie Leibovitz? (I am American and not a Newspeak...err, Newsweek ssubscriber.)

I suppose this tells us where Americans priorities are. I am at a loss for words how this is supposed to be news that beats out Afghanistan.

I suppose this tells us where Americans priorities are. I am at a loss for words how this is supposed to be news that beats out Afghanistan.

I guess Newsweek feels that Americans need to be protected from scary things like the truth and world affairs in favor of inane human-interest stories.

I think the time has come to move on...

Okay, but move on to where, exactly? Don't forget - you're the only game in town after thumping International Communism. what are you expecting us to do - gang up on Lichtenstein? Togo? Micronesia?

What?

Okay, but move on to where, exactly? Don't forget - you're the only game in town after thumping International Communism. what are you expecting us to do - gang up on Lichtenstein? Togo? Micronesia?

What?Hey! Micronesia is part of the coalition of the willing, so you back off of them right now, okay mister! :D

And yes, I'm being snarky here. Via Rising Hegemon (http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2006/09/if-you-want-to-know-why-media-is.html), take a look at the different covers Newsweek used for this week's issue.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/061002_Issue/nw_leftnavcov_OV_061002.jpg

Yep. The rest of the world gets Newsweek talking about the war in Aghanistan, but the US gets Annie Liebowitz.

So to my friends in the rest of the world, if you want to know why Americans seem so damn clueless half the time, this is part of the reason.

:headbang: sums up my thoughts.

i like how the US version has: News... eek! as the title ;)
Well... what do you expect from a country in which a large segment of the population gets its news from FOX.

I have that edition of Newsweek!, with the muhaidin fighter!

I didn't get the News eek! one, although

I think that after Pure Metal post, nothing can be further discussed in this thread.

I guess Newsweek feels that Americans need to be protected from scary things like the truth and world affairs in favor of inane human-interest stories.

Yes, it would be a rotten thing to do, tell people the truth. Hardly something that news organizations are known for anyway. I really can't remember how often the media does any serious in depth research to uncover news anymore. Whatever the number is it is not nearly as high as it used to be.

Yes, it would be a rotten thing to do, tell people the truth. Hardly something that news organizations are known for anyway. I really can't remember how often the media does any serious in depth research to uncover news anymore. Whatever the number is it is not nearly as high as it used to be.Nor as high as it should be, more's the pity.

Well... what do you expect from a country in which a large segment of the population gets its news from FOX.

unfortunatley that is the sad truth.....

unfortunatley that is the sad truth.....
I could be wrong, but I think that network news still out strips cable news.

You've got it all wrong, it's not the US that is underinformed about Afghanistan. It's the rest of the world that is underinformed about Annie Liebowitz. *nods*
Who is Anne Liebowitz? This is your chance! Do everything they did to you when you asked who Milosevic was!

I think that after Pure Metal post, nothing can be further discussed in this thread.

:D

I guess they are changing the US title to NewsWeak

Who is Anne Liebowitz? This is your chance! Do everything they did to you when you asked who Milosevic was!

Thats the point, as an underinformed european I only know about world events, I had to google her to find out she was a photographer.

Well... what do you expect from a country in which a large segment of the population gets its news from FOX.

I prefer to get my news from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart;)

:) *dances and hands out cake*

I think that after Pure Metal post, nothing can be further discussed in this thread.

Effpefially not wiff a mouff full of cake! Ffankf, PM!!! ;)

I prefer to get my news from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart;)
It's a scary thought that fake news bear more meaning than the supposedly real stuff.
I'm grateful every day for the German public television news shows.

It's a scary thought that fake news bear more meaning than the supposedly real stuff.
I'm grateful every day for the German public television news shows.
And for CNN international. Sundays... :D

And for CNN international. Sundays... :D
I don't get CNN International here - but I do know that they air The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. ;)

Welcome to the world of propaganda, my children.

Effpefially not wiff a mouff full of cake! Ffankf, PM!!! ;)

i gave that cake out hours ago... you're still eating!? :eek: :p
(good eating-cake impression btw :-P lol)

i gave that cake out hours ago... you're still eating!? :eek: :p
(good eating-cake impression btw :-P lol)
Uhm, I saved it for dessert. Not to spoil my appetite before I've had my salad and pizza. :D (Eating which, by the way, helped wiff fe moufful fpeaking!)

And yes, I'm being snarky here. Via Rising Hegemon (http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2006/09/if-you-want-to-know-why-media-is.html), take a look at the different covers Newsweek used for this week's issue.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/061002_Issue/nw_leftnavcov_OV_061002.jpg

Yep. The rest of the world gets Newsweek talking about the war in Aghanistan, but the US gets Annie Liebowitz.

So to my friends in the rest of the world, if you want to know why Americans seem so damn clueless half the time, this is part of the reason.

The funniest thing I've seen in weeks. Except for Stewart/Colbert and reruns of Invader Zim.