Philip Morris is terrific at continuing to sell a product that is deadly to their customers. As more and more laws pass to take away the rights of the tobacco industry to advertise to their customers Philip Morris finds a new way to generate public interest. This definitely is a good move on their part to look like they are cooperating while at the same time they make their opposition out to look like the "bad guys."
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"Makes everybody laugh" is not the definition of satire. It's not not satire just because you don't like it. George Bush didn't even smile when he shook hands with Stephen Colbert. You might think it's bad satire, you might think it's not satire at all, but satire is what it is.
This is so funny---reminds me of that lynching prank in Jena, La, and its copycats. Or Sean Bell being bulleted to death on his wedding eve. What sort of weird bubble do the New Yorker editors and their defenders live in? Every Black person in this country carries the burden of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, segregation, poverty, imprisonment and every other insult the US has come up with to inflict on a people. And now Arabs and Islam has been added to the burden.
But hey, lets 'lighten up'. And if some of us great unwashed take offense reading this as an open invitation to more of the above, those of you that think this is satire, (space for your smug grin here) please promise to see to it that the next overt violence against Blacks or Arabs gets stopped at the pass.
The New Yorker supported Kerry a much straighter way 4 years ago.
This would be satire if there were some distance to it. Like O'Reilly holding this cover and saying "while we're at it why not add a suicide belt for Michelle ?"
The editor's answers don't hold a second :
"Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover." The editor noted that the magazine includes two "very serious" articles about Obama -- a commentary and a 15,000-word reporting piece on the candidate's political education and rise in Chicago. (see AFP)
Seriously, everybody knows the power of image. The impact of one caricature relayed everywhere is ten billion times stronger than 15,000 words only a few will go through.
And regarding the people holding this "mirror" : I'm not a constant New Yorker reader but if I were I don't know how I'd take it.
Letters to the editor are probably going to outscore 15,000 words...
"Makes everybody laugh" is not the definition of satire. It's not not satire just because you don't like it. George Bush didn't even smile when he shook hands with Stephen Colbert. You might think it's bad satire, you might think it's not satire at all, but satire is what it is.
This is so funny---reminds me of that lynching prank in Jena, La, and its copycats. Or Sean Bell being bulleted to death on his wedding eve. What sort of weird bubble do the New Yorker editors and their defenders live in? Every Black person in this country carries the burden of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, segregation, poverty, imprisonment and every other insult the US has come up with to inflict on a people. And now Arabs and Islam has been added to the burden.
But hey, lets 'lighten up'. And if some of us great unwashed take offense reading this as an open invitation to more of the above, those of you that think this is satire, (space for your smug grin here) please promise to see to it that the next overt violence against Blacks or Arabs gets stopped at the pass.
The New Yorker supported Kerry a much straighter way 4 years ago.
This would be satire if there were some distance to it. Like O'Reilly holding this cover and saying "while we're at it why not add a suicide belt for Michelle ?"
The editor's answers don't hold a second :
"Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover." The editor noted that the magazine includes two "very serious" articles about Obama -- a commentary and a 15,000-word reporting piece on the candidate's political education and rise in Chicago. (see AFP)
Seriously, everybody knows the power of image. The impact of one caricature relayed everywhere is ten billion times stronger than 15,000 words only a few will go through.
And regarding the people holding this "mirror" : I'm not a constant New Yorker reader but if I were I don't know how I'd take it.
Letters to the editor are probably going to outscore 15,000 words...
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There is no moral or immoral art, Oscar Wilde said, only good and bad art. Though mediocre, the Obamanable cover it's selling mags for Condi Nasti.
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