There are many different things you see when you look at the cover of magazines. Just as Cosmo has beautiful women put together by a make-up artist and airbrush to make girls want to be skinnier, or Men’s Health has physically fit men to convince you that by following their workouts you too can look like them, Time has disturbing images portrayed to draw interest into their articles. Every image and picture is put there to give you a desired thought or feeling.

    “What happens if we leave Afghanistan” is the headline on this cover of Time magazine, featured in 2010 to gain support for the war effort. They show a picture of a “poor defenseless woman” who has been mistreated and abused. It gives the American people the sense that these poor women need help and liberation. Each picture impacts our society’s opinion on topics around the world, even to scare people showing a very normal looking kid, from any American community, which grew into “monster” without any warning.

                                                                            

  When you turn to a story on the inside of this Political Magazine there are more gruesome and horrifying pictures to accompany these somewhat bias opinions. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and in today’s society that is certainly true. If you were in line at the grocery store you may only look at the cover of Time and after looking at it you will walk away with the idea that if we don’t stay in Afghanistan that every woman there will lose their nose without having a solid basis for to form that opinion. If you were in that same line the and saw a cover displaying a young boy looking as innocent as any other neighborhood kid labeled a murder you are going to walk away thinking you should start homeschooling your kids. We need to understand that everything we see is put there for a reason. Political magazines are just as phony as a fashion magazine and have just as many hidden agendas, they have to sell copies and they have opinions to support.