Diferentes pontos de vista?
[act.:] Afinal há uma explicação para as "diferentes" perspectivas: Cover stories: A grand slam for media monotony: The editors at Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and The Economist, anxious as anyone to see something besides the Iraqi war on their covers this week, all jumped on SARS. No problem there -- newsmagazines leading with the same story happens every now and then.
But imagine the surprise when, like a quadruple slot machine coming up with all cherries, each publication had the same image to illustrate the epidemic: a single person wearing a surgical mask.
Editors at the newsweeklies said they weren't that surprised over their version of a cover grand slam, something that hadn't happened since pictures of the World Trade Center dominated most publications right after 9/11. They noted there aren't many good ways to illustrate a disease -- a virus itself isn't that dramatic, after all -- and surgical masks have become an icon for severe acute respiratory syndrome.
