Why Was This Graphic Bloomberg Businessweek Cover of Romney Canned?
- Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:40am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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There have been plenty of magazine cover controversy over the last year. There was Michele Bachmann’s Newsweek cover, the other recent Newsweek cover story on Obama’s “dumb” critics, and now Mitt Romney is the center of a one involving Bloomberg Businessweek.
It focuses on a rejected (I repeat: rejected) cover showing a bloodied, bruised, and beaten-up Romney:
That’s certainly eye-catching. But why didn’t the cover ever run? Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel explained in an email to Buzzfeed that the magazine usually prepares several covers for an issue and decides on the the one that best fits the “way the zeitgeist is blowing:”
Each week we design a few cover possibilities for the upcoming issue. We see where the news is going and make a final decision about the image on Wednesday afternoon. Two weeks ago (January 16 issue, on stands January 13) we had two great pieces in the magazine: Ashlee Vance’s profile of Steve Ballmer and his efforts to reboot Microsoft, and Peter Coy’s Opening Remarks about how the GOP had turned on Mitt Romney and Private Equity. In the end,we went with Ballmer since the Romney story seemed to have already hit its peak. A lot of times these decisions are about all of us putting our finger in the air and trying to figure out which way the zeitgeist is blowing. It’s what makes the job so fun and so challenging.
So if it was rejected, how did it make it out into the public? Well, Bloomberg designer Richard Turley tweeted the image out (in response to a NY Mag cover):
What do you think of it?
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Comments (55)
PJL
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:54pmIt should have been the American people with the black eye.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:31pmThat’s too close to the truth and would reflect poorly on Obama.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:33pmAbsolutely disgusting.. I’m embarrassed for them what a sick group of individuals
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:45pmI don‘t think that’s fair, they should leave poor Mittens alone, he just wants to help the USA. My gran gran says Mittens is the one for me, you know I do live in her basement and don’t pay any rent.
Report Post »pcisbs
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:00pmThe truth is that most media sources, are mouthpieces for Obama’s reelection campaign. From day one, Obama has hoped Romney would win; since he is the easiest to beat (regardless of the unsubstantiated garbage spew by the GOP Establishment). In turn, the Media had no problem destroying Bachmann and Perry, while only levying occasional, cursory shots at Romney.
Report Post »Jacksonian2012
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:19pmYou kidding? The Dems are not attacking Newt , it’s Mitt. 600k from the unions and the DNC is running ads against Mitt. Newt has more holes in him than Sponge Bob Square Pants. Mitt has unions Obama Santorum , Gingrich , Sarah Palin , Hannity , evangelicals , people who hate Mormons , and a Las Vegas millionaire who are against him. Mitt is the only candidate that can help my 401k.
Report Post »Machtyn
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 1:22pmReally? Why, then, are the Unions dumping money into the Gingrich campaign and the DNC party send up a collective cheer when he won SC? And the media negatively reporting on Romney at 72%. (Gingrich’s negative reporting is at 52%.)
Report Post »RonmeyPaulBotsrOdd
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:00pmYeah – the media is a mouthpiece for Romney….SUUUURE…just as they keep throwing around Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush and facilitate the moronic personally destructive debates for the leaderless to shred each other. I firmly believe the whole manipulation is all about keeping the republicans fractured to the point of no return. One of these guys has got to quit tap dancing (no…not Ron Paul for you PaulBots) and seize the discussion versus being led. Are any of them capable?
Report Post »Further – we should all be pi$$ed off and tune out the noise of any other late entry candidate.
justin.blake
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:24pmIt never ceases to amaze me that people will put up Newt as a conservative and ignore his less than conservative morality. As far as Romney not being able to beat Obama, I respectfully disagree. Yes, Romney is not a hard-line ultra right wing conservative. Neither are most of the people in the U.S. We need a candidate that the majority of the U.S. can get behind. The more you keep pushing for a ‘true conservative”, the less likely we will remove Obama. This election will hinge upon the independent and moderate republican and democrat vote. The hard-liners on either side will not make the difference. If the GOP candidate can appeal to independents and moderates alike, he will beat Obama hands down. If instead the only group he can pull is right wing conservatives, we ARE doomed. Keep rootin for Newt if that is what you want, cause there ‘aint an independent that I know willing to put Newt in charge of the purse strings of this nation.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:02pmLimbaugh listeners tend to just parrot what he says, even if it has no basis in truth. Almost every day for the past 3 months Rush has claimed that the media wants Romney, Obama wants Romney, and the Republican establishment wants Romney.
Meanwhile, the Rush Limbaugh program has been reduced to the 3-hour Gingrich campaign block.
Report Post »johjoh
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 12:05pm**** like this should nevery happen.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:34pmThe left accuses the conservative media of encouraging violence but most content of that flavor, in my experience, comes from the extreme left. Can you imagine what the left would say if the Washington Times had a cover page with Obama beaten up and bloodied?
Report Post »etoddt
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:57pm@ DEFROST -
You must have forgotten the insanity that ensued when this Halloween jem came out about the DNC – http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/11/01/eye_of_the_zombie.html The Secret Service ended up being called in to investigate…
Meanwhile, not only does this picture of Mitt gets a passing yawn on all sides, the right is probably less offended than the left about it -
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:28amThe true character of the MSM exposes itself! That’s sickening!
Report Post »bolsen00
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:19amEverybody knows it‘s just John Kerry at Christmas and they transposed it over Romney’s face. Stupid! Who has blood running down their face and nothing on their pristine white collar? Seriously? The liberal biased media will go to any extreme to get Obozo reelected…desperation!
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:17amLOL, John Kerry looks like this pic of Mitt!! Kerry must have been between the buffet table and Moochele again.
Report Post »Waterlylys
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:15amWhy was this cover rejected? So they could appear to be better than they are. The cover still got out. If they truly thought it was an old story they wouldn’t have let it out in any way, shape, or form. Twitter, how convenient.
Report Post »WJConservative
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:14amAhhhh…. the left seems to always make good look evil or pathetic and the left seems to make evil look good and mainstream.
Report Post »Amma K
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 12:49pmRemember the pictures of Obama looking like he had a halo of gold around him?????
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:50ambecause it just got out for free and they got what they wanted…conservatives need to remember that they are in a fight for Americas vey liv and fight as if this were Iwo Jima!
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:42amThats just racist….oh wait………
Report Post »mils
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:38amWhy?…because the left media has decided that it wants Mitt to win the nomination so that Obama can waltz back into office without too much cheating on his part
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:36am.
Why Was This Graphic Bloomberg Businessweek Cover of Romney Canned?
The truth can’t be told. Mitt ran into Moochell at a Benefit Dinner, and got between her and some fried chicken…..
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:00amLOL……….The fact is she could do this to Mitt. I wouldn’t mess with that Mad Black Woman and I bet Obama (PBUH) would not either.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:27amBloomberg like most media sources has become a cheerleader for the left. It has been set up to be the leftwing alternative to WSJ. You could only read so many articles on how the stock and restate market was booming in 2010 and 2011 to see how biased they have become. Pretty sad, and something like this is not surprising.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:32amWhere’s the cover picture of Obama with a turd in his mouth? After all, all he spews is crap.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:23amYEP! the so called “Business Magazines” are all, for the most part, towing the liberal rope. The exception would be Forbes.
Odummer is running scared. Running scared of Gingrich and will do anything in his power to encourage Mitt’s election. Odummer knows that RINO Mitt would never be able to stand up against his leftist onslaught so he is encourageing the press to glorify Romney in every way possible.
Is Newt perfect? Not by any means. Newt has the guts, cojones and chutzpa to fight Odummer in the trenches. He will make Odummer sweat bullets! He will be unfraid to go toe to toe and call out and expose the entire leftist, elitest agenda. This is something that Mitt hasn’t got the personality to do. Mitt would play “Mr. Nice Guy”, exactly what Obummer wants!
Report Post »garyM
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:24amThey didn’t kill it, they just did not have the b-lls to put it out themselves. The Blaze is looking for a sympathy vote by posting!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:20amYou can BET that they would NEVER do that to a picture of their beloved leader, Oblameus.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:17amMaybe the GOP woke up to the fact that they want Obama out in 2012 and they made a stupid mistake picking a candidate that could not even beat their last candidate McCain in a primary . Remember that got McCain clobbered by Obama in the general. It don’t take a rocket scientist to figure out Romney cannot beat Obama. We need a real conservative like Newt who can articulate conservative values, not another liberal like John McCain. Romney is as bad if not worse than John McCain. McCain endorse Romney! Wake up people! Newt has admitted he has made mistakes and has failed His Lord and had to seek forgiveness and reconciliation from God. I haven’t heard anything like that from Romney, why, he don’t think he has any sin! Jesus said if we think we have no sin, our sin remains!
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:57amNewt is still as much of a dirtbag as he ever was.
Report Post »WhiteFall
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 4:34pmIf Newt is so sinless and remorseful why does he always stand behind deflection tactics. He calls his 2nd wife a liar on national TV the same day he says he is not going say anything against her. He always abuses his grand children by playing the good ol’ grandpa card anytime adultery comes up. His words that the American public only care what he says not what he does reinforce his arrogance and self conceit. His immorality is only constrained by his old age and couch episodes with Nancy. When he screamed foul and pointed the finger at CNN I knew the guy was lying, it is typical of any guilty person. Redirecting the attention on the wicked media after all it was is patriotism that led him to the two affairs. SC blew it big time with buying into his rants and name calling.He is an progressive pig that is going to give Obama the WhiteHouse.
Report Post »justin.blake
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:47pm@GaryM – maybe you haven’t heard anything like that from Romney because he is still married to his FIRST wife, and never had a problem with 3 ‘somewhat overlapping marriages’ as Jon Stewart puts it. Has Romney ever sinned? Of course! We all have fallen short in keeping His word. However, to judge Romney as worse than Gingrich because you have not heard him confess his ‘sins’ or claim to be ‘reborn’ is about the lamest thing I have read here today. I am sure Romney isn’t perfect, but he sure as heck LIVES a life of Christian values instead of just claiming to like Newt. Once old Newt pulled the deflection card and refused to answer for his behavior during the debate and turned the blame onto the media for daring to confront him on his behavior, he showed his true colors as one who is not honestly repentant.
Report Post »Arbroath7
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:16amI think its a perfect example how the way-too-powerful media try to color, influence and direct an election. We have vested far too much credibility into a group of people who we had hoped were simply REPORTING the news and who are now, in fact, driving it to meet their own desired outcome. They have become the puppet masters and we are worse off because of what they have become in our society.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:15amIt was rejected and you want my opinion. Good decision.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:20amCan you imagine the commotion if somebody doctored Obama’s picture like that? You would think the world was ending.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:39am@ GONZO:
If they did that to Odummer, Soros would buy the Magazine and then close it putting all the staff in the unemployment line.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:13amThat’s Romney After South Carolina and Florida and …
NEWT 2012
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:28amThanks for explaining that to us. We never would have figured it out on our own.
Report Post »rotcarpenter
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:03amPeople are too sensitive about magazine covers. It’s a visual to express the fact Romney is “taking a beating” politically.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:20amwould the same said media EVER do that to hitleery klinton b. HUSSAIN o. jose biden,need i go on?it‘s always the conservatives that get the short end of the stick from the left and then the left tells us it’s art or it’s this or that and that we should accept it.but the left never cannibalizes it’s people ,only the conservatives do that.
Report Post »rotcarpenter
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:43amI agree that why would not ever dare do one against -insert random liberal- but the point remains the same. Just a visual representation of what’s going on politically. People like to blow “controversial” designs out of proportion.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:01am.
What do you think of it?
I think it look’s like Mitt went drinking at the “Country Place” (old bar south of BatonRouge on the River Road)…….
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:41amOr the biker bar we used to call the “church” here Spank;p
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:08am.
DRAGO this place opened at Midnight & Rocked til the sun came up……
Had a chain link fence over the bar, with just enough room, to tilt a Long Neck under…..
Let me put it this way if you were looking for a fight. All you had to do was LookUp….
Report Post »hi
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:00amIt looks similar to John Kerry’s face after playing a game of hockey.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:22amDid John Kerry tell he did that playing hockey, I think he must have ran into his Vietnam swift boat people somewhere. They didn’t know John Kerry well, John was only there 4 months. The normal tour duty was 1 year! Someone in high places was building John’s congressional resume then!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 10:36amJohn John bumped into the mast of his yacht while playing hide and seek with an intern.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:59amBecause Kerry beat them to the punch?
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 8:56amI am not impressed at all. Maybe he should design for a horror magazine.
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