Glossy Coverage Of Midterms: Time Goes Minimalist, Newsweek Plays Dubya Dad Angle
Like New York’s heated Daily News-Post rivalry, when Time and Newsweek cover the same big story, it’s — sadly — fun to watch it play out on their covers. This week: fallout from the midterm elections. Newsweek, as they often do, play it more or less straight. Time, as they often do, trot out something that looks like it came from a Robert Mangold collection — minimalism that, against the backdrop of a crowded newsstand and magazine buyers who have limited patience, seems at once both shrewd and risky.
Hey, at least editor Richard Stengel‘s moved on from his “bombed-out destruction” period.
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