Pundits on both sides of the aisle—the Daily Show even—are taking issue with Newsweek’s decision to run a not so flattering photo of Representative Michelle Bachmann for their latest cover that purportedly makes her look more insane than she actually is, but is that even possible? Read more »
Yeah, he’s the Hindu god Lord Shiva now, as this Newsweek cover shows. Still the Other–just another Other.
Say the theologians at Fox News, Shiva is considered to be “the destroyer of the world, which must end, metaphorically speaking, in order to be reborn as a more universalistic place.” Hm, sounds like a socialist-Communist-Marxist-Leninist commune. Or some sort or spiritual retreat center where all they serve is salad and quinoa. Read more »
In the event you or someone you know has been Rip Van Winkle-ing it for the past decade, Newsweek put together this neat YouTube video that sums up all of the 2000s significant events in just over seven minutes. Watch and find yourself thinking “God that seems like it happened a lifetime ago” to yourself. Read more »
Artist Christopher Cox, of ChangetheThought fame, isn’t happy about graphic designer Victor Juhasz taking one of his free downloadable Obama posters and incorporating it into an image that made its way to an editorial in the October 20th issue of Newsweek. Cox is crying copyright infringement, faulting both the artist and the publication. But is it? Sure, Juhasz basically doodled on the Obama design, but he also added his own signature illustrations and other elements like the evil, paint-wielding caricatures, transforming the work into a whole new piece of art. Putting aside the fact that this design was put out in the public domain, Victor Juhasz could argue that his right to parody the work supersedes the copyrights of the artist. From the sound of things, Cox might have been a lot more supportive if some level of attribution was provided, writing:
Editor-in-Chief:
