Nancy Pelosi and the newsmags: What about all the cover stories? Wait, there weren’t any
Posted at 02:22 PM ET, 04/05/2012
Nancy Pelosi and the newsmags: What about all the cover stories? Wait, there weren’t any
By Karen Tumulty
Bonnie’s post below about TIME’s reader poll on the 100 most influential people reminds me of something that I always found mystifying (and also a little exasperating) about the newsmagazine cover choices. Full disclosure here: I worked at TIME for 15 years, and hold the magazine and the people who work there in the highest regard.
My beef is with those cover stories that TIME and Newsweek did on Nancy Pelosi when she was speaker of the House.
You don’t remember them?
That might be because they never happened.
No matter that she rose higher than any other woman ever has in our government, holding a post that put her second in line for the presidency. No matter that during President Obama’s first two years in office, she practically carried his entire agenda over the finish line on her back: health care, energy, regulatory reform, education, pay equity.
More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/re-isnt-it-time-what-about-all-those-speaker-pelosi-cover-stories-wait--there-werent-any/2012/04/05/gIQAtKunxS_blog.html?wprss=rss_politics
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