Time Magazine Cover - If you Don't Like it, Don't Look

[Derrel]

The titillating cover photo is a CLEAR, obvious, and BLATANT attempt to spur single-copy newsstand and supermarket sales of TIME magazine. It doesn;t take a marketing genius to figure that out. Cover photos are designed, deliberately, to get people to pick up the magazine and to BUY it.

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Derrel - Time is not in my grocery stores checkouts. None of them. :sillysmi:

 

[bentcountershaft]

People still read magazines?

 

[Derrel]

Derrel - Time is not in my grocery stores checkouts. None of them. :sillysmi:

Time to find another grocery store!!!! heh heh heh... I saw it at Safeway...the checker said it's all people talk about...

 

[cgipson1]

Interesting interview from the Time cover Mom....

Breastfeeding Cover Mom Speaks Out - Yahoo! News

 

[Ballistics]

I'm thinking that purchasing the magazine would be the only thing to work in their favor... last time I heard, opinions don't keep the lights on... so no... the joke wouldn't be on us.

Don't you think this cover might persuade more people to buy the magazine out of sheer curiosity than say, a politician's mug on the cover?

Maybe I don't know enough about advertising, but I would definitely consider picking up a copy and reading it.

Sure, but the context of the comment was based on the discussion of the magazine in a free internet forum. Shock and Awe sells magazines with out a doubt. But to say the joke is on us doesn't make sense, because this isn't about how everyone bought the magazine because of the controversial cover.

 

[jake337]

All this talk about the questionable magazine cover had worked in their favor. The joke is on you

I've never bought a copy of the magazine, and this cover won't change that. lol

I don't buy magazines at all. I like to check out the cover photos lighting and Post production while I'm in the checkout line though...

 

[ewick]

So, there's a 4 year old in that article being breast fed. Is that natural too?

not that it makes a difference but the kid is 3 yrs old. not four.

 

[Audible_Chocolate]

Ha! I love it!

 

[Kerbouchard]

I don't like it, because I feel like the kid is being exploited. Both by the mother, the media, and by Time Magazine. That kid will be forever famous as the kid at 3 years old who was on the cover of Time Magazine. He didn't get that choice but it will impact the rest of his life.

All because a photographer wanted to take a controversial shot and Time Magazine wanted to sell more copies. So, while I do disagree with the parenting style and find it somewhate inappropriate, I vehemently disagree with the exploitation of the kid.

 

[Derrel]

More on the deliberately controversial Time magazine cover, this one a spoof/satire/commentary: timecover.jpg

As the text says, " Why declining subscriber bases drive some publications to try and create buzz by making their covers feature some pretty creepy $hi+. BY KATE PICKERT"

 

[Derrel]

Here are four outtakes from the studio session TIME commissioned for its cover. See, this wasn't some stock photo cover, or a random submission...TIME hired this cover to be shot for THEM, with specific criteria...they had four mothers to choose from...

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