{"id":42,"date":"2006-09-29T13:05:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T20:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-09-29T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T20:05:55","slug":"on-a-need-to-know-basis-they-need-to-know-about-afghanistan-we-need-to-know-about-annie-leibovitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/09\/29\/on-a-need-to-know-basis-they-need-to-know-about-afghanistan-we-need-to-know-about-annie-leibovitz\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Need to Know Basis.  They need to know about Afghanistan.  We need to know about Annie Leibovitz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004518\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/newsweekmagazinesbinladenite.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2006\/09\/26\/america\/NA_GEN_US_Newsweek_Different_Covers.php\">Newsweek offered different covers overseas and at home this week, featuring a close look at violence in Afghanistan for international readers called &#8220;Losing Afghanistan&#8221; while its U.S. edition focused on photographer Annie Leibovitz for a story titled &#8220;My Life in Pictures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>International editor Fareed Zakaria said the magazines often have different covers because they are tailored to different audiences overseas and in the United States. In the U.S., Newsweek is a mass-circulation magazine with a broad reach, while overseas it &#8220;is a somewhat more upmarket magazine for internationally minded people who travel a lot,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Afghanistan is sort of the first victory in the war on terror. For that to be going badly is tremendous,&#8221; Zakaria said. International editions feature a photograph of what appears to be a Taliban fighter with a grenade launcher.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. editions featured a photo of Leibovitz, one of America&#8217;s premier photographers, on the cover with several children.<\/p>\n<p>Zakaria noted that the Afghanistan story was also promoted on the cover of the U.S. editions, and that the magazine had negotiated an exclusive for Leibovitz&#8217;s new book.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek offered different covers overseas and at home this week, featuring a close look at violence in Afghanistan for international readers called &#8220;Losing Afghanistan&#8221; while its U.S. edition focused on photographer Annie Leibovitz for a story titled &#8220;My Life in Pictures.&#8221; International editor Fareed Zakaria said the magazines often have different covers because they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}