#cover discrepancy

My point is that we shouldn’t be jumping to the conclusion that the media is conspiring against American citizens based on a single magazine cover. These differences are most likely due to sales research — what picture will make an American buy my magazine? What picture will make a European buy my magazine? With this angle, maybe Americans should be looking inward for what crap they’re more likely to buy.

So perhaps this a bit of old news (for the Interwebs, anyway), but I've still seen images of the Time magazine cover discrepancies. I just found this article (via Sci-ence.org--a webcomic to check out if ever there is one) and it debunks the issue pretty well.

I think Maki of sci-ence.org's comment sums things up pretty well:

I saw this today (because “we have a blog?”) and my naive reaction was “They don’t want us to get any ideas (regarding revolution)!!” But then I thought some more and I came to the sad conclusion of “No, it’s more like U.S. readers don’t care/want to care about world topics.”