Newsweek seems to be missing out on a great marketing opportunity. Back in late November, a senior writer at Newsweek compiled a bunch of pieces colleagues had written for publication after Hillary Clinton had won the presidency; the result was a sort of alternative reality edition in which fans could lose themselves in professionally written fan fiction.
Newsweek really ought to rush that thing into print now, when Hillary’s book tour has made both nostalgia and revisionist history hot again. The New Yorker, for example, is passing around the cover that would have run had Hillary not blown it.
This is the cover we would have published had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump: https://t.co/Qc8hQUjefa pic.twitter.com/0bL2dcvaRz
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 13, 2017
Heartbreaking. https://t.co/WKDYXb7oXJ
— Ed Muller (@GoBigEd) September 13, 2017
Gorgeous and gut-wrenching. https://t.co/s3y50rsEZx
— Jill Lawrence (@JillDLawrence) September 13, 2017
I'm crying in a lecture right now https://t.co/FvEFmNxKQI
— Ainsley Bandrowski (@ACBandrowski) September 13, 2017
Too painful to see https://t.co/DkPdYpGHr5
— B. Sargent Noble (@schpsych8) September 13, 2017
this makes me want to die https://t.co/oRpiR1o8KG
— Bertrand Hussle (@OhWowHmm) September 13, 2017
Wow, that’s edgy … edgy like a picture book you read to the kids when you’re trying to put them to sleep.
Was she howling? https://t.co/sIfCahqYRA
— Rep. Steven Smith (@RepStevenSmith) September 13, 2017
That’s no moon …
is that a death star for her wars https://t.co/VfK8zvlP0g
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) September 13, 2017
Please mark media as containing sensitive material if you're going to show porn. https://t.co/yfmDDpqcCK
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) September 13, 2017
Too bad so sad https://t.co/UWfLwp3Bjc
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 13, 2017
One of the things I admired about America was that those who lost elections generally went away respectfully. That is changing? https://t.co/gFMoPFDwbb
— DoUHaveTheFever? (@sidin) September 13, 2017
At least, unlike Vogue, you hadn't sunk a substantial portion of your 2017 budget into a "women in power" series of issues. https://t.co/zDkOgq7Lej
— Michael B Dougherty? (@michaelbd) September 13, 2017
It's almost comical at this point.
Breaking up is hard to do.
Move on. https://t.co/onOGL6JbVx
— BlueReaganite (@ThinBlueLR) September 13, 2017
Inevitable:
— Matthias Reynolds (@RealMReynolds) September 13, 2017
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Related:
Newsweek offers Hillary supporters in mourning dispatches from an alternative reality where she won https://t.co/gOBg79ylVM
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 30, 2016
