Pictures in a paper are just decoration, they serve the narrative and if a little photoshopping is required so be it. It's not as if it told a lie in the way that the photos of Bush and the firemen after Katrina did. keep to the Fen Causeway
If the picture was captioned, "Obama looks lost and defeated as he stares at the great imponderable" you might have a point, but it's the magazine's news-stand selling point, the advert that says "buy me, this is an interesting story". You might as well complain that the oil rig in the background isn't Deepwater Horizon (obviously) and so is a distortion of the real distance in the Gulf. keep to the Fen Causeway
It sells, probably to a great extent by subscription, on its rep as a Serious™ outlet.
And that cover doesn't say "interesting story", it says "Obama dithering loser".
That's a very literal reading. I suspect that, while the Economist were coming from that angle, they also recognised how the image sold the story; which is what a front page picture is supposed to do keep to the Fen Causeway
what a front page picture is supposed to do
We plainly disagree on The Economist's need to sell by means of the cover.
i saw a simple 'OOOooops!'
a shorter version of: 'i believed my own rhetoric, but my words, so lofty and noble-sounding, are turning to ashes in my mouth. what can i do? i'm in so deep now, how can i backpedal out of this? more rhetoric?'
it is true that with the others in the pic he looks professorial and professional, whereas framed alone, he's looking into the abyss...
his personal ambition risks losing to forces much greater than those he rode into power on. canute cannot turn back the toxic tide, icarus flew too close to the sun, now the wax of exceptionalism is melting off in black, greasy chunks. face it obama...your easy benedictions to BAU are going to break your spell over yourself. the fork in the road is there, how long are you going to wait, how many lives and livings before you have to admit to yourself that taking america down from its fossil fuel fantasy, and up to the level of truth, is why you were elected, not just to pass out valiums. BP is just the tip of the iceberg, and your campaign rhetoric shows you know it.
all that golfing now you're in-like-flynn seems a little inappropriate. soon michael moore will catch up to you, and you'll have a bushian 'watch this drive!' moment, superimposed over dead pelicans.
the abyss is looking at you. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
But American media is one of the worst in the world, Americans should admit it.
irrepairable damage Obama caused to US-UK relations because of his unflexible attitude towards BP, the pride and honor of Britain
haha. that was our grandfather's BP, and a national myth anyway.
national denial about 'good' corporations has been a warm blanket for too long. if britain can't find better symbols for 'pride and honor' by now she's in deep doo. not that obama makes any sense on this either... i keep expecting him to go sailing (in clean waters) with hayward any day.
getting his life back to front... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
But I have no expectations of the Econo beyond Smith-ish Sovietisation. If Comrade Trotsky is not permitted to exist, then Comrade Trotsky must be removed from the image.
No difference here.
What - people think because the Econo writes in English they're somehow different, and not just Pravda for posh-boys?
Except in the US, apparently.
