The newest issue of Foreign Policy has just come out, and it's got quite the cover.
Rather poignant, no? We're sure the good folks at The Village Voice would agree, too, since they did virtually the exact same thing on their cover five years ago -- just after the attacks on September 11th.
We haven't seen the print edition of Foreign Policy just yet. But somewhere in there we hope there's a decent explanation for this. A homage, perhaps?
UPDATE: Having just stopped by a bookstore and seen the print version (you see what we do for you people?), we can rule out the possibility that there's an explanation in there. What you can't tell from the image of Foreign Policy's cover, however, is that it appears to be an actual picture rather than something created on a computer. So think what you will: This was either an intentional ripoff of The Village Voice (seems unlikely), simple ineptitude on the part of Foreign Policy's editors, or a testament to The Village Voice's dwindling relevance. We report, you decide.
UPDATE 2: The people at Foreign Policy respond: "Rest assured; the similarities are a complete coincidence."
FINAL UPDATE: David Butow, the photographer who took the picture on the cover of Foreign Policy, has informed us that, contrary to what we thought, his photograph was in fact digitally manipulated. He also writes that he "took the original picture on assignment for US News and World Report about two weeks after 9/11//01. I own the copyright to all my work and after an assignment, my pictures go to my agency where the pictures are digitized and stored for sale to books, magazines etc. FP magazine bought the photo from Corbis, my agency at the time."
- Ankush Khardori
