Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

A Demonstation of the Need for Skepticism

Last week's regional editions of Newsweek did not all carry the same cover.

The variations should provide a simple illustration of the need to take journalistic accounts with a grain of salt.

1 Comments:

At 9:17 AM, Blogger Ken Wedding said...

The Guardian (UK) covered these covers and included this explanation for the differences: "Newsweek's international editor, Fareed Zakaria, said that in the US, Newsweek was a mass market magazine with a broad reach, while overseas it 'is a somewhat more upmarket magazine for internationally minded people'."

 

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