Newsweek issues a problem for Sara Palin

Sarah Palin called her photo on the cover of this week's issue of Newsweek Magazine as "sexist" and "out of context" on her facebook page.

Why would Palin say this, when she posed in running shorts for the cover of Newsweek magazine?

Well, she didn't.

The photo your seeing was actually featured in the August 2009 Issue of Runners World.
However, Newsweek used it on their Nov. 23 issue.
According to Runner's World, the photo had been provided by the photographer's stock agency, so I guess that means it was fair game.

This did not seem like fair game to Palin, though, and she called the magazine's choice of photo an "unfortunate" one with type magazine being news. "The media will do anything to draw attention," she said on facebook.

So is this a despaerate ploy to sell issues or is it really portraying what the article says it does?

The Newsweek editor Jon Meacham states that they chose the "most interesting image available to [them]" to illustrate a "gender-neutral standard."

However, the magazine's subscriber base is expected to decline by nearly half from its peak of 3.1 million in 2009, according the CS Monitor and the Washintong Post Company's third quarter financial report. Although struggling to maintain subscribers has been the case for several magazines lately.

Palin was featured on the "I'm a Runner" section in the August 2009 issue of Runner's world.
See an enlarged view along with the editor's note.