TIME Issues A Correction For Its Misleading Cover
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June 23, 2018By now, you’ve seen TIME’s dishonest cover.
TIME’s new cover: A reckoning after Trump’s border separation policy: What kind of country are we? https://t.co/U4Uf8bffoR pic.twitter.com/sBCMdHuPGc
— TIME (@TIME) June 21, 2018
That particular child has become a symbol for the left. She represents the children Trump is personally TORTURING by RIPPING them out of their parents’ arms.
Except…that young girl was never taken from her mother. Like at all. The girl’s father actually said that the mother ditched him and their other three children without even telling them.
“I never got the chance to say goodbye to my daughter and now all I can do is wait,” the girl’s father said. “I don’t have any resentment for my wife, but I do think it was irresponsible of her to take the baby with her in her arms because we don’t know what could happen.”
He reiterated that the two– the mother and daughter– are currently together. They’ve been together.
TIME’s initial response? It stood by the cover.
JUST IN: Time magazine standing by the cover: pic.twitter.com/gXKg4shL6F
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) June 22, 2018
TIME MAG Editor in Chief: “The June 12 photograph of the 2-year-old Honduran girl became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for a reason ….
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) June 22, 2018
..Under the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this week, those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in turn resulted in the separation of children and parents. Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment.”
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) June 22, 2018
Even though TIME’s really not sorry, it ultimately issued the mother of all corrections anyway. I think editors deliberately slipped the correction in there without making a fuss about it, because they didn’t want anyone to really notice. For crying out loud, this was trending for two days. The correction should’ve been a big deal.
I have a better correction. “The original version of this story was #FakeNews.”
Yep. Much better.
