Anna Wintour Admits Glorifying Mass Murderers Isn't a Good Idea

Vogue has been widely criticized for its puff piece on Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad since it ran, but not much has come of it. Vogue zapped the article, “A Rose in The Desert,” from the web, and the article’s editor, Chris Knutsen, defended it, telling The Atlantic the piece was “a balanced view of the first lady and her self-defined role as Syria’s cultural ambassador.”