Finally a pleasing article from The Economist (Christmas special edition), titled nothing less than 'Capitalist, Sexist pigs'!
I quote... "But The Economist, apparently had more frontal nudity in its photographs than all the other magazines combined [in a study of the photographs of five news magazines from 1982 to 2000]. (...) Particularly curious to the authors was our use of sexual content to illustrate stories on topics such as finance and technology. A photograph of three bikini-clad beauty contestants, used to illustrate a story on financial regulation, with the caption "Pick your regulator", was both emblematic and problematic."
The whole article is worth reading actually, pages 151-152...
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On my nightstand
Just finished - have you read?
Eat Pray Love; Bird by Bird (couldn't finish); The Twilight Saga; Persepolis 2 (Marjane Satrapi); The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafon); The Whistling Season; Mary Barton; Hearts of horses; the worst hard time; Syngué sabour (wow); Mal de pierres; le boulevard peripherique; les chretiens; la trahison de thomas spencer; The Eleventh Man (Ivan Doig); Histoires des paysans de France (Michelet); Old School (Tobias Wolf); The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society; Coastliners; Love walked in, and, Belong to me; The man of my dreams; Silent Spring; Options for girls: a door to the future; Three cups of tea; Wives and Daughters (sort of); Corelli's Mandolin (sort of; skimmed it only); Prep; American Wife (I'm so impressed by Curtis Sittenfeld's writing); North and South; The blessing of a skinned knee
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