Glamourize

In an effort to continue looking like a respectable magazine (ha!) while also dabbling in issue-selling celebrity gossip, It looks like Newsweek has decided it have its cake and choke on it, too. Instead of discussing the Jamie Lynn Spears' story directly, this week they decided to interview the editor of OK! Magazine about Jamie Lynn Spears, after the recent OK! cover they reportededly paid $1 million to get. In the interview, OK!'s editor even suggests that publishing a photo of a 17-year-old girl with a baby and the pull quote, "Being a mom is the best feeling in the world," didn't glamourize teen pregnancy.

No, no: Not at all. I mean: Getting $1 million to appear on a magazine cover with your baby and not even have to get married? And, no doubt, have your parents and paid employees take care of your baby while you go out and try to make another one? No, no, that's not glamourous at all.

Here's an idea, OK! Magazine: In order to balance the damage you've done here, why not run the story about a Pittsburgh woman, so obsessed with having her own baby, that she sliced open a teenagers belly and took one. The girl's "decomposing body, with her wrists and ankles bound by duct tape and layers of tape and plastic covering much of her head, was found Friday" in an apartment. How's that for glamourization?  

I'm just saying.

16 Websters Published 7/23/08   Message Add to Friends