Newsweeks "Diana at 50" cover

[floskate]

The cover is vile and in terribly bad taste. It's received a LOT of adverse publicity here in the UK (naturally) and I just hope it makes people think twice before buying rather than rushing picking up a copy to see what the fuss is all about and thus increasing Newsweek's revenue.

[Beefcake]

But, yeh, she'd never look that haggard. And for chrissakes, they didn't update her hairdo at all.

Total tabloid territory ... and maybe "newsy"/infotainment that is where they've decided to take Newsweek in order to delay the inevitable end of its print version.

[Wyliefan]

Make no mistake, this was done extremely deliberately, endorsed or maybe even designed by Tina Brown herself. Brown knew exactly what the reaction would be.

Did she know people would cancel their subscriptions? Because that's what I'm hearing, and if she wanted that to happen, she's got rocks for brains.

[Gazpacho]

Did she know people would cancel their subscriptions? Because that's what I'm hearing, and if she wanted that to happen, she's got rocks for brains.

I don't think she cares. It doesn't matter if she gets fired from Newsweek for this. She's at a point in her career where she's gotten all the titles an editor would ever want. Now it's about her--making the splashes, drawing the attention she wants.

[MacMadame]

I just hope it makes people think twice before buying rather than rushing picking up a copy to see what the fuss is all about and thus increasing Newsweek's revenue.

Luckily we don't have to buy the magazine to see the cover.

[pollyanna]

I don't think she cares. It doesn't matter if she gets fired from Newsweek for this. She's at a point in her career where she's gotten all the titles an editor would ever want. Now it's about her--making the splashes, drawing the attention she wants.

She's in danger of being remembered for all time not for all those titles and awards, but for the tacky exploitation of Princess Diana.

[skatesindreams]

I haven't looked at the cover, and won't.

[Ziggy]

Make no mistake, this was done extremely deliberately, endorsed or maybe even designed by Tina Brown herself. Brown knew exactly what the reaction would be.

Everyone is talking about it.

Tons of publicity for them.

That's surely what they aimed for.

[clarie]

The cover is in poor taste for sure. A computer aging program didn't take into consideration that a woman of Diana's wealth and stature would have access to all the youth preserving cosmetic/surgical/esthetic treatments of today's woman. She would have been able to keep her youthful good looks with fillers, botox, and even plastic surgery. She would not have looked like that photo. That was horrible.

[IceAlisa]

The cover is in poor taste for sure. A computer aging program didn't take into consideration that a woman of Diana's wealth and stature would have access to all the youth preserving cosmetic/surgical/esthetic treatments of today's woman. She would have been able to keep her youthful good looks with fillers, botox, and even plastic surgery. She would not have looked like that photo. That was horrible.

Absolutely. And also as someone has already mentioned, chances are good that her hair style would have been more up to date.

[Vash01]

I just returned from Barnes & Noble. They had the magazine there, so I saw the cover, but I had no desire to even touch the magazine to open it. I was not going to read that article; I just knew it.