Stark contrast between Time and Newsweek: Time’s got a black-eyed George Washington dollar-bill illustration to go with “The great American downgrade” cover story (related features include “How the Tea Party hijacked Ameirca,” “The wealth gap widens” and “Lessons from the debt debacle”), while Newsweek offers a presidential portrait of Michele Bachmann, “the queen of rage,” on “God, the Tea Party, and the evils of government.”
Bachmann is big at The New Yorker this week, too. With a telling cover illustration of a trio of tuxedoed gents living it up in a lifeboat while the Titanic sinks in the background, the big story is “Leap of faith: The making of Michele Bachmann.” More delectable, perhaps, is “Grub: Eating bugs to save the planet,” about the apparent “final culinary frontier.”
Billboard has “cream of the global hip-hop party scene” LMFAO on the cover and has an excerpt from the book Def Jam: The First 25 Years Of The Last Great Record Label. The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, goes full hype forward on “The inside story on Terra Nova,” said to be “fall’s most anticipated new show” and “TV’s most ambitious project,” with the cast pictured on the cover in a woodsy outdoors setting.
Bloomberg Businessweek gets noticed for its striking aerial cover photo high above the subject of “The saving of Ground Zero.” And finally, we note, too, The Economist’s cover illustration of a hungry shark lurking beneath a forlorn female testing the water alongside the “Time for a double dip?” heading—if only because it goes so well with today’s stories about 61-year-old Diana Nyad’s start of her 103-mile swim between Cuba and Florida in hopes of setting a record for open-water swims without a shark cage, and the discovery of a large shark discarded in the woods of New Hampshire.
Oh. Yes, we did miss Wednesday’s magazines, as we were in Jonesboro, Arkansas, for the inaugural Johnny Cash Music Festival. If you're interested, go to the Jim Bessman page at examiner.com for extensive coverage.
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