DICK CHENEY NEVER posed for Texas Monthly magazine, but this cover was considered to be the best of the year by TIME magazine.
It's a fake, a computer-generated photo illustration - one that mimics a 1973 National Lampoon magazine (right). Do you have any problems with a fake image being saluted by a major journalistic outlet like TIME?
5 comments:
Why not? Theres no place that says magazine covers have to be authentic. After all its kind of like a canvas for art and surely not everything n art is real
Remember the Principles of Journalism? How about number one: Journalism's first obligation is to the truth?
Is the cover a work of art or journalism? Can it be both?
- George (the teacher)
I think it's not right for a fake image to be the best cover of 2007.
As you said, the first obligation of being a journalist is the truth. And this cover isn't real, it was computer generated.
People get in trouble for recreating images like that to make their stories look better.
I think TIME should salute a cover that was done as an original, whether it be an original photo, or an original drawing of some sort.
Next Star magazine will get article of the year for their alien babies piece, because the writing was so wonderful- not because the story is real.
I think that a journalists job is not only to inform but to entertain. This is entertaining, and I doubt many people would take it seriously. I think that journalists have a right to be creative and have a sense of humor. It makes their articles more enjoyable to read and catches the attention of the potential readers. Boring journalism is outdated.
Nobody will take it seriously? We're talking about Dick Cheney here! He already shot one guy in the face!
- George (the teacher who would never go hunting with Dick Cheney)
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