If your Sunday newspaper carries Parade Magazine, then you saw this on the cover yesterday. The interview with Benazir Bhutto took place in October, and obviously the magazine went to print well in advance of December 27, the date of her assassination.
I don’t know what their excuse is, frankly, because most news magazines are able to make editorial changes as late as 24 hours before press these days thanks to the advent of using computers and desktop publishing software to layout their issues. I’ve seen various Time-Warner mags have next-day coverage of some events (as in the event happened Sunday and showed up in the magazine I received in the mail on Monday). By contrast, Parade’s own website was able to tag the interview with a brief blurb about the timing and their decision to run the story. They posted the interview on the web immediately after the news broke, as a matter of fact.
This just makes the dead-tree media look bad. Remember the egg on the face of the editors at Elle when their interview with Lindsay Lohan hit the news stands the same day she was arrested for DUI? At least that had some ironic value to it. This just comes across as out-of-touch.
