>Hello All,
>Happy Mothers Day to all who are celebrating today!!!! And what more 
>appropriate topic than the cover of TIME.......I am hopefully going 
>to get a response out to the press here in Israel,
>
>I am interested to know if there was such a furor in Europe 
>regarding this cover.


No, there is not.  I don't think the UK edition of TIME has used the 
cover - might be wrong about this. TIME is not a huge seller in the 
UK.

There have been a couple of stories in the quality press, and there 
have been a few discussions online, and some radio stations have had 
a discussion, and I think the morning discussion programme on Channel 
5 (downmarket channel, small audience) has discussed it. I was called 
up by BBC World Service to see if I would take part in a radio debate 
but I refused as I was in meetings all day. I don't know if they did 
anything about it.

>  Maybe I am wrong, but it seems that the biggest fuss, again, is in 
>the USA, and in one of the online articles that I read - I saw that 
>in France they are not even using that cover!! So, either because 
>it is boring because in France they see a lot more skin than what is 
>"barely" shown on Jamie Lynn. (the mom)and also because in some 
>places in Europe , if I am not mistaken, breastfeeding is not seen 
>as an indecent act. Please educate me.


In the UK, I would say things are getting better and better with 
regard to actually seeing breastfeeding. I see it out and about a lot 
more - though not as much as in the South of France where I spend a 
lot of time these days (which is not typical of the rest of France).

But a cover on a top-selling bookstand  UK magazine like the one on 
TIME would have caused a furore, I am pretty sure.

Heather Welford Neil
bfc, tutor, UK
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