OK! magazine made a tacky decision to use one of the last images of Michael Jackson as he lay dying as the cover for their tribute issue, sparking outrage among fans and musicians (like Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z), who have launched a petition to stop the publication of further copies.
The petition argues that the tabloid has violated Jackson’s right to privacy, while OK!‘s editorial director Sarah Ivens adamantly defends her cover:
“It’s a photo that captures the surprise and the upset and the moment of this breaking news story . . . I hope the cover will provoke readers. It celebrated the man, but it also does expose that he was an eccentric character who lived a very controversial life.”
Blindie finds the tabloid’s cover to be sensational, a ploy to sell covers rather than a celebration of the Jackson’s musical legacy.
President Obama swatted and killed a fly during an interview with CNBC correspondent John Harwood on Tuesday and quickly became an internet sensation because of his skillful hand-eye coordination and quick reflexes.
The media jumped all over Obama’s fly smackdown and compared him to Karate Kid‘s Mr. Miyagi and even called him “Lord of the Flies.”
PETA however, was not a fan of Obama’s smackdown and according to TMZ they had this to say about the President, “He isn’t the Buddha, he’s a human being and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act.”
Notorious Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour finally admitted to requesting Oprah to lose weight for her 1998 Vogue cover shoot.
Telling the talk show host to drop 20 pounds for her cover, Wintour revealed on 60 Minutes, “It was a very gentle suggestion. I went to Chicago to visit Oprah, and I suggested that it might be an idea that she lose a little bit of weight.”
Oprah appeared on the October 1998 cover with the headline: “Oprah! A Major Movie, An Amazing Makeover.”
“She was a trooper,” Wintour added. “She totally welcomed the idea, and she went on a very stringent diet. And it was one of our most successful covers ever.”
We’d assume that not much can shake Queen of all Media Oprah Winfrey, but when the mogul was commissioned to write an essay on First Lady Michelle Obama for Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People issue, she had just that.
“I had written the whole piece on my BlackBerry, and I was feeling really so great about it,” Winfrey told the New York Daily News. “I wrote it in the memo section, and I went to hit save and I hit another key — and it disappeared. I lost the whole thing!”
“I had to start all over. I was panicked. It was an absolute deadline, so it was crazy,” she added. But in the end Oprah –who has appeared on the list every year since its inception–published her moving piece, which ended with Maya Angelou’s iconic poem, “Phenomenal Woman.”
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but outright copying in the media industry can smell of desperation!
For its April issue, the voice of Black women in America, Essence magazine, has (from the looks of it) stolen the annual age issue concept from Glamour—even completely translating their three-actresses-of-varying-ages cover concept.
For their age issue, Essence recruited 27-year-old tennis star Serena Williams, 53-year-old supermodel Iman and Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson. See past examples of original Glamour covers from 2007 and 2008 below.
“[The cartoon] is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys.”"
–Sharpton on the New York Post‘s cartoon comparing President Barack Obama to the chimp that was shot dead by police on Tuesday. Post Editor-in-Chief responded, “Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”
Politically-incorrect new ragThe New York Post is adamantly standing behind a cartoon that compares President Barack Obama to the violent chimpanzee that was shot dead by police after mauling a woman on Tuesday.
The cartoon, which was featured in Wednesday’s paper by Sean Delonas, shows two officers standing over the a dead chimp with bullet holes in his body. One of the officers says, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
Being that African Americans have long been ridiculed and compared to monkeys, Blindie finds the cartoon completely insensitive.
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