The late Princess Diana and the very-much-alive Kate Middleton strut side-by-side on the latest cover of Newsweek. It's shocking, yes, but it also strikes me as tasteless to play around with the image of a dead person who left behind two children. This Photoshopped cover image appears on a Newsweek double-issue in which editor-in-chief Tina Brown, who published a book about Diana in 2007, opines on what Diana would have been like had she lived to her 50th birthday. (She would have owned an iPhone, got Botox, worn J.Crew, and moved to New York City, Brown imagines.) That is a legitimate enough topic to explore, of course. But Photoshopping Middleton next to her husband's dead mother in order to sell magazines feels unseemly to me.
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[Newsweek]
[The Atlantic Wire]
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