In “honor” of what would be Princess Diana’s 50th birthday this month, Newsweek has released photos featuring Princess Diana Photoshopped into modern situations. The cover features her walking alongside son William’s wife Kate Middleton, and another has her holding an iPhone. She even appears to have been altered to look older than 36, the age at which she died. The accompanying article reads like a fanfiction about what it would be like were she alive in 2011:
Chilling with the Middletons. Tweeting from Davos. And still the people’s princess. If not for that tragic night, what her life might look like now.
Aaaannd, I hope everyone sufficiently creeped out by now. It’s like Newsweek unearthed her body, airbrushed the dignity away, then forced her to shill magazines to the clinically nostalgic. All while they cash in.
UPDATE: Newsweek also created a fake Facebook account for her. Yeesh, The Real Housewives of New York? They’re even assuming she has terrible taste in entertainment.
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Newsweek has now officially jumped the shark.
Really? I would have thought that they had done that some time ago.
BTW this is just creepy.
This is not jumping the shark.
This is doing Immelmanns and slow rolls around the dessicated corpse of the poor shark whilst going “NYAH-NYAH, YOU’RE DEAD AND CAN’T SUE!!!”
Be interesting to see her brother’s reaction….
Are you sure we can’t work Fonzie-Zombie into that somehow?
Fonzie-Zombie is flying the plane?
And it is filled with snakes. Poisonous ones.
I think Madeline Kahn said it best when she said “It-it- the f – it -flam – flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths… Heathing… ”
This is just nasty. It’s so nasty, I can’t even describe how nasty it is. It’s that damn nasty.
Flames indeed! This is in extremely poor taste (and also creepy). Epic FAIL!
Newsweek jumped the shark when the proclaimed algore as the thinking man thinking man or should I say newswekk “jumped and jumped and jumped”
http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/newsweek-wins-lapdog-award/
Newsweek was sold to Rep. Jane Harman’s husband for $1. Pretty much sums up the rag’s value.
That’s what happens when you let Tina Brown near anything. Ever.
Mama, I’m askeered!
At least Newsweek realizes that it can’t accurately report real news and is moving on to reporting fake news.
LOL, they always report fake news! They wouldn’t even know real news.
Don’t they use the same pool of “water cooler experts” that the rest of the media uses?
Yeah. They gather at the water cooler, tell each other “I know a guy…” stories and then scurry back to their terminals to crank out a story based on the discussion.
And THIS, my friends, is why I don’t rely on Network News.
Associated Press, NPR, and the BBC… with a heavy dash of internet news feeds are Sooooo much more informative than NBC, FOX, CNN, etc.
*ducks and runs B4 News B1tchFest flame-war sparks off*
Because when you display your ignorance, you should receive a standing ovation.
Now you have me confused again! Are you saying that unless we get our news from mainstream, network news we are ignorant?
I like the alternative news sources (the ones with no ante in the pot) – they just report the news.
If I want opinionated commentary, NBC, FOX and CNBC are happy to provide it.
What I’m saying is that Associated Press, NPR, and the BBC are the mainstream news.
You do realize that CNBC is a business network and is not the same as MSNBC, don’t you?
meh, those are left of center to the point where they all look the same anyway.
As far to the right as you are, everything looks left of center…
True. I never did say the mainstream ran down the center though. The river’s always been deeper on the left. But the situation is getting better…thanks to this man.
http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World/dp/0446572829/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309293944&sr=8-1
The AP is left of center? You couldn’t get much more dry and non-partisan than the AP.
They also have amusing typeos from time to time ’cause they cut the news so quickly.
hahahahaha
You apparently have never seen non-partisan to call AP that.
me too
http://www.drudgereport.com
Good lord that’s tasteless…
Why did they make her look like she was a smoker all her life? I’m sure with her income she would have had plastic surgery. That picture makes her look more like 65/70.
I don’t think Tina Brown is “all there” any more.
not that we believe she ever was “all there”….
just sayin’
She wasn’t quite this bad when she was running the New Yorker, but Newsweek went from sort of trying to be the Economist to, well, this when she took over.
I AM a smoker and not much younger than Diana was and did not have tons of cash for spas and treatments and I STILL don’t look anywhere that old. So, this is just…
This is sad. and creepy. What’s next, the concert MJ would have had?
Don’t put it past Newsweek.
Didn’t that movie already get released?
They already released the album….
Wow, Princess Di looks good at 50.
EWwww! No she doesn’t!!
In that top shot, her eyes are sunken, her face looks 60… but they actually missed aging her hands and upper arms!!
It’s disturbing. I am disturbed.
*hides under desk from the forthcoming Di-Zombie Invasion*
Some guys never look at the face. Sad but true. Luckily, I am not one of those guys. I agree with you about how they made her face look.
Wow. I am honestly impressed. I for my part would have never come up with this kind of story, no matter how desperate my magazine’s situation. I may be a piety fail, but it’s a creativity win, isn’t it?
Wait. Newsweek is STILL being published?!
Two hundred dentist office waiting rooms can’t be wrong.
Sort of. I just let my subscription run out. It’s partnered with The Daily Beast and has given up on being anything other than screen prints of that site.
Plus Niall Ferguson’s ignorant, sophomoric, neo-colonial ramblings.
R.I.P. Diana, ignore the grubby moneysucking greedy PIGS that’ll put ANYTHING in their rag to get sales.
Oh my giddy aunt.
It’s bad enough that they make her look like a weird version of a Dorian Grey painting but then they put down a lot of eijd;owiejfd;ijfdh cack as her entertainment choices?
And I thought the Daily Mail was bad by constantly referring to her with every goddamn possible news story.
Hmmm…
Should use rule 34 instead.
Do we have to care? I dont live in England.
Wow. This is incredibly horrible, imo. I wasn’t around when she died, so I never really could get to like her, but this is creepy and stupid. They aged her terribly, and ‘pretending’ shes around and pretending to be her is sick and serial-killer-ish(specifically I have Pyscho in my mind)
Just… Ugh!
Exactly. Even if you don’t love Diana this is still tasteless and banal. She died tragically, yes, but let her stay dead. Let people move on. Don’t resurrect the dead just because of a slow day.
…In what universe would she be friends with Camilla? 0_o Everything else was just disrespectful, but that…that’s just…is Newsweek trolling Princess Di fans??
what is this, i don’t even…
My mother died when I was a child and this made me feel awful. Can’t imagine how much worse this is for william and harry!
CREEPY!
What the hell is wrong with those morons at Newsweek?? This is a disgusting act of disrespect.
Christ Almighty, i thought the British media were bad enough – i think we have a new winner….