Clever “End Of The World” mock tabloid on the cover of Time to go with its “Scandal! How a tabloid meltdown threatens Rupert Murdoch and his media empire” story. Inside is “Obama & Boehner: The secret talks,” “Arab Summer: The softening of Islam’s hard-liners” and “A fond farewell to Hogwarts.”
Newsweek has “How We Nailed Murdoch” by the editor of The Guardian, but the cover goes to “The General’s Next War—Petraeus comes home.” Also, Paul Begala misses Bob Dole and Andrew Sullivan writes about “my country, my husband.”
Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart celebrates its 50th anni on the venerable music trade mag’s cover, and features the likes of Elton John, Mariah Carey, Johnny Mathis, Debby Boone, Michael Bolton, Kenny Rogers, Whitney Houston and more. “Bruno Mars is Big Business” is the cover story—though why they chose the pull quote “Don’t be a slut. Remember your dream” is beyond us. Still, his “Just The Way You Are” is the most successful debut in the AC chart’s history. Also of note, though, is the inside story on the suddenly hot new Turntable.fm, and whether or not it’s legal.
But The Hollywood Reporter goes slumming with “Three Days on the Jersey Shore” (“chaos, fights, tears!”), and more sensationalism with its “Confessions of a Murdoch Employee” tease along with “Barbara Streisand—The heated talks to keep her happy.”
Nice blue Entertainment Weekly cover fronts “The New Spider-man” Andrew Garfield (“First look!”), and also offers a “Comic-con preview and an "A-minus" Harry Potter movie review.
Finally, The New Yorker goes with a female same sex marriage cover illustration, playing up its “The trap of motherhood” story on influential French feminist Elisabeth Badinter’s contention that our obsession with natural parenting and materinity is destroying all of women’s most important gains. It follows suit otherwise with coverage of Murdoch and Potter.
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