In 2016, Barack Obama will have more wrinkles, more grey hair and what appears to be larger ears (or maybe they are just floppier?), according to the Businessweek art department. And that's just on the outside. On the inside, it may even be worse. Because the photoshop job is actually a metaphor for the difficulties that the president-elect faces.

"This issue of Bloomberg Businessweek reports on the road ahead for President Obama as he faces the fiscal cliff and crucial decisions for the future of the economy, business, and defense," the magazine wrote. "The opposition remains considerable, and no matter how successful he is, the hardest job in the world will take its toll."

So celebrate and be happy now, Mr. President. Because the rapid aging process is just beginning. Oh yeah, and all the other difficult challenges of running the country. But mostly the looks things.

Businessweek ran a similarly photoshopped cover of Mitt Romney that they had in reserve in case the election had turned out differently. The republican candidate may be disappointed that he didn't win, but he can take solace in the fact that he won't look like this in four years.

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"Our cover story this week may generate controversy," wrote editor Josh Tyrangiel on Twitter. "But only among the stupid."

Neither is the correction at the bottom of the piece.

As noted by The Atlantic Wire, the correction on The Economist's workplace-boozing piece reads:

_{Correction: An earlier version of this article claimed that journalists at Bloomberg Businessweek could be disciplined for sipping a spritzer at work. This is not true. Sorry. We must have been drunk on the job.}

As it turns out, eternal editorial wunderkind Josh Tyrangiel had taken to Twitter to rebuff the magazine's claim that "Hacks at Bloomberg Businessweek can be disciplined for so much as sipping a spritzer" (you should already know this, but "hacks" is British Mugglespeak for "reporters").

He also gave quote to The Atlantic Wire:

"We love The Economist," Tyrangiel told us over the phone. "The truth of the matter is that every staffer here has a spritzer two or three times a day, and contrary to what The Economist wrote, there's no scolding involved."

Also:

Obviously, Tyrangiel was joking: Bloomberg Businessweek staffers don't really drink on the job.

But Tyrangiel isn't quoted saying that so take it for what you will.

And there is your Absurdist Correction of the Day.

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If they were giving out prizes for best ledes, the same issue of New York would be our top pick as well. Remember?

"The first time they had sex, during that initial exploration of unfamiliar flesh, John Ross uttered words to Ann Maloney that would sound to her like prophecy. 'You have the body of a young girl. You need a baby.'"

Chills!

Bloomberg Businessweek won the Business & Technology category for its last-minute Steve Jobs cover.  Two different Real Simple covers—both blown-up photographs of flowers—won the Health & Fitness and Women's Interest categories, while GQ's Mila Kunis with iced coffee cover won Men's Interest.

Many more accolades to come at tonight's Ellies.

The Observer wouldn't have said anything, but on the piece's most recent trip into our Google Reader feed, we felt we had to investigate, and it turned out we are not alone:

We're no fans of bailouts either, and with the foreclosure crisis escalating, we're concerned about what the government might do to prop up the sector with "most favored industry" status. But simple repetition isn't going to help! At least change the phrasing. Theme and variation, guys, theme and variation.

mtaylor [at] observer.com | @mbrookstaylor

"It's a little surreal," says Cameron Winklevoss, standing outside the Sony office building in midtown Manhattan with his twin brother, Tyler. "Like hearing your voice on an answering machine."

In a cab taking them to dinner following the movie, the Winklevoss twins — who were dressed in preppy clothes and each toting "identical gray Tucano man purses" — discussed which scenes they found to be accurate depictions of their experience in the formation of Facebook, and which scenes were, to them, total fabrications. They praise the re-imagining of their sit-down with Harvard President Larry Summers, and admit that though they don't come out unscathed, the brutal take-downs of Napster founder Sean Parker and, of course, Zuckerberg are far more damning. 

But Tyler Winklevoss called the final moment of the film, when Zuckerberg finally shows some guilt and emotion, to be a bit unrealistic. "The real-life Mark Zuckerberg," Tyler said, "has never shown that inner turmoil in the six years I've dealt with him."

Mr. Stone launched his career at Newsweek in 1996, taking up coverage of Silicon Velly for the newsweekly two years later. He will work out of Bloomberg's San Francisco bureau.

He has a piece in The Times today about a new smartphone, the Motorola Droid X, which went on sale this morning.

Here's the release:

New York, NY, July 15, 2010-Brad Stone, technology correspondent for The New York Times, will be joining Bloomberg Businessweek as a senior writer in Bloomberg's San Francisco bureau, effective August 2, 2010.  Stone will be covering a broad range of technology issues and companies.

"Brad is one of the top journalists in his field and brings a deep knowledge of the tech industry to Bloomberg Businessweek," said Josh Tyrangiel, Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. 

Stone has been with The New York Times since 2006.  From 1998 to 2006, he served as the Silicon Valley Correspondent for Newsweek magazine, writing for the technology and business sections of the magazine and authoring a regular online column. He joined the Newsweek writing staff in 1996 as a general assignment reporter.

Stone graduated from Columbia University in 1993.  He lives with his family in San Francisco.

Today The Wall Street Journal takes a look at media companies in the middle of real estate moves. And what better time to bring up The New York Times' financial situation.

The Wall Street Journal now occupies space in the News Corp. building in midtown. News Corp. acquired Journal publisher Dow Jones in 2007, and last year moved the company out of its downtown offices.

Unlike many of their peers, the New York Times Co. and Forbes stayed put. But both now are tenants in space they used to own after their owners sold part or all of their buildings.

Businessweek will leave Rockefeller Center this month and head east to Bloomberg headquarters on Lexington Avenue.

Hachette Filipacchi is moving from 50th and Broadway to the Time & Life building.

Last month, the publisher of The Economist moved to 750 Third Avenue, where it will share offices with editors and executives from Reader's Digest.

Insider will allow subscribers to follow the specific markets that are relevant to their work and would narrow down the broad stream of market news they see on channels like CNBC.

David Carr calls the service "something like a You Tube for the financially interested, albeit one that is available only to Reuters subscribers, who pay as much as $2,000 a month."

Reuters Insider also produces almost real-time transcripts through voice recognition technology — the renderings are pretty rough, but useful — and then humans come behind and clean up some of those transcripts, while adding additional tags, links and other relevant information.

That metadata, along with highlighted search terms that allow the viewer to go to the exact moment in the video when the term is mentioned, could become part of a new informational system in which links are passed, video is shared and Web stars can be born

Mr. Carr also points out that Thomson Reuters' $100 million investment in the new platform, which draws revenues from pricey subscriptions, is a Bloomberg-esque move.