Today's Faux Media Controversy: Dakota Fanning on the Cover of Cosmopolitan

Actress Dakota Fanning will celebrate her eighteenth birthday on February 23rd, several weeks after that month’s issue’s of Cosmopolitan hits newsstands. Which is enough to inflame some media critics, who feel that a dolled up picture of a 17-year-old should not share cover space with saucy, sex-tip article teases.

FishbowlLA prefers to side with TheFrisky.com’s Amelia McDonnell-Parry. She tells FoxNews.com columnist Hollie McKay that the Fanning piece is likely of a different stripe:

“I’m generally not all that worked up about the still-17-year-old actress appearing on the cover of Cosmopolitan,” said McDonell-Parry.

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