First Ladv of Hell

摘要

How did the worldly Vogue writer Joan Juliet Buck come to present a rosy profile of the chic wife of Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad just months before the Arab Spring? The piece was assigned at the end of 2010, but the uprisings spread-at a speed far fester than the magazine's dinosaur deadlines. When it fi-nally appeared in February 2011 (online) under the lethally embarrassing headline "A Rose in the Desert," supplied by Vogue's editors, Buck found herself in a media flak storm.