Charlotte Randolph

The Doctored Economist Cover: We All Live in a Photoshopped Age

In a carefully calibrated lead editorial on the BP oil spill in its June 19 issue, The Economist declared with its usual voice-of-God authority, "Mr. Obama is not the socialist the right claims he is. . . . But his reaction is cementing business leaders' impression that he is indifferent to their concerns." Those are not sentiments likely to send anyone to the barricades. But what has triggered a press-box kerfuffle is the photograph of Barack Obama that the magazine chose to illustrate this anodyne commentary. It is a stark image of a solitary president looking down in thought on the shores ...

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