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Yikes. According to the New Yorker (story here at Ad Age), the photos of the “real women” in their underwear were doctored — made more model-like — by airbrush artist Pascal Dangin.
Not much good news for print newspapers, according to Eric Alterman’s piece in the New Yorker.
“Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago…. [T]rends in circulation and advertising––the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising––have created a palpable sense of doom. Independent, publicly traded American newspapers have lost forty-two per cent of their market value in the past three years, according to the media entrepreneur Alan Mutter.”
