Word: newsweeklies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great is the hype that even Newsweek, that Crimson favorite, gave the breaking news front-cover billing...
Enter former Crimson photographer Ali Zaidi '94. Zaidi came to The Crimson building, selected a file photo of Rudenstine taken four years ago taken New York (before Rudenstine became Harvard's president) and said Newsweek would...
...what Newsweek wanted would have misrepresented the story of Rudenstine's departure. What the man looked like four years ago in New York has nothing to do with how he looked when he left his position last fall...
...that didn't seem to matter. Newsweek wanted an exhausted looking Rudenstine and appeared willing to do whatever was necessary to get it. The photo which the magazine ultimately chose to run on its cover is obviously a closely cropped blow-up seemed intended to make Rudenstine appear as haggard as possible. The deceptiveness of this photograph is apparent when compared with other photos of Rudenstine taken that same night...
...Newsweek has every right to depict someone suffering from exhaustion. But it is wrong for journalists to try to make someone appear to be suffering from exhaustion if that person no longer has such a condition. Such misrepresentation gives all journalists a bad name...