Washington DC, Nov 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The ‘Going Rogue’ author and former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin manages to keep herself in the news. This time it is for the cover of ‘Newsweek’, which she finds downright ‘sexist’ and out-of-context too.

Sarah Palin is shown wearing black shorts and blood red top with sports shoes and she is leaning over a chair on which the prestigious US Flag is kept as a prop. She is giving a picture perfect pose interested more in showing off her charming smile and curves rather than showing some respect to the flag, even though she talks about being a White House hopeful for the next Presidential elections.

On her FaceBook page, she writes about it that, “The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this “news” magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner’s World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness — a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention — even if out of context.”

Meanwhile others in the media have been giving mixed reactions to the cover. Some have called it ‘shrewd’, ‘biased’, and ‘brilliant’.

However Newsweek has done its best to defend the picture. The Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham said that, “We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.”