Friday - October 23, 2009
In A Class Of His Own
Media bias much? Nah, couldn’t be.
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has done their annual magazine cover awards. To cover the thousands and thousands of magazines out there, they have 11 different categories. Celebrity & Entertainment. Fashion & Beauty. House & Home.
This year there is a 12th category. Just for Obama. Because he’s that special.
[via NewsBusters.org]:
The Magazine Publishers of America’s American Society of Magazine Editors has added a category to its annual magazine cover awards: Obama. This new category is the only ASME category focused on a single person, and highlights the reverential attitude for the President widely held in the magazine publishing community.
Gak. So, Ok, fine. Big deal. There’s a category for Obama. WTH, he’s been on the cover of almost every single issue of NewsWeak since July 2008. So they picked a Best Obama cover winner. It makes a certain kind of sense, as the Wall Street Journal points out:
The more we thought about it, though, the more this made sense to us. Given how amazingly super President Obama is, there is a temptation to give him every award for everything. Example: It’s hard to imagine that anyone will end up deserving the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama will, but if the Norwegian Nobel Committee gives Obama the prize every year, no one else will have any incentive to work for peace. Solution: create two separate prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Non-Obama Peace Prize. Problem solved!
The separation of Obama awards from others would allow him to get his due, while making it possible for people besides Obama to get some recognition once in a while. Other people, after all, sometimes are worthy too--just not worthy of Obama.
But when you bring that kind of moxie to the table, that level of photographic art, that amount of power, grace, and humility, that much sheer perfection ... is there any doubt who the overall Cover of the Year award is going to?
No doubts at all. And you can’t say he didn’t deserve this one. Although Obama will always be the winner of the Obama category.
Media bias? There’s no steenkin’ media bias! They’re just utterly, totally, slavishly in love with him. Perfectly natural and normal. No different than a 11 year old girl and her pop idol crush of the week. They’re all illuminated by the rays of glory reflected off this unique and wonderful lightworker.
Posted by Drew458
on 10/23/2009 at 07:06 PM
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