Newsweek has run some provocative covers. Competitor Time magazine has kept abreast of the competition so it decided to go-tit-for-tat.
UPDATE: And here’s a good roundup about the controversial cover.
If Time loses some advertisers, it might pick a new one up: Hooters.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.