As Twitchy reported, TIME is “standing by” its most recent cover depicting an unfeeling President Trump looking down on a crying two-year-old child, who was cropped from an image taken by a Getty photographer at the border.
The image, see, is supposed to be a “visible symbol” of the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their families at the border. Except multiple sources, including the girl’s father and the border control agent who searched her mother — who was illegally re-entering the US after she was previously deported in 2013 — say the little girl was never separated from her mother; her mother simply set her down for a few seconds while she was being searched.
Why the Trump Time magazine cover is so powerful | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN https://t.co/ihjEUrGsib pic.twitter.com/68JlZg37Sd
— CNN International (@cnni) June 21, 2018
CNN’s Chris Cillizza wrote a piece about how the TIME cover is so powerful, although that piece now includes an editor’s note at the bottom: “CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correctly describe the image of the crying girl on the Time cover.”
The piece gets it right this time:
The image, taken by photographer John Moore, showing a girl crying as her mother is searched has instantly become the touchstone of the family separation crisis. That scared little girl juxtaposed against the towering Trump — looming over her in a black suit — is a startling image.
But … if the image has “instantly become the touchstone of the family separation crisis” but the little girl was never separated from her illegal immigrant mother … doesn’t that make this fake news? (To be honest, to us it looks like Trump’s wearing a navy suit, not black, but whatever.)
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So yes, it’s a powerful cover.
Because they carefully cropped, used and misrepresented the picture of a crying toddler whose mum was right beside her? https://t.co/gjMWDIUOk7
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) June 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1010214375712440320
For the same reason Thor and Superman are so powerful, you know, fiction #FakeNews https://t.co/TTAY9pFy6T
— DJ Roberson (@DennisJamesR) June 23, 2018
Liberal journalists are working to manipulate you, not inform you. https://t.co/3KewpXKdVN https://t.co/aotAikcxfF
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) June 23, 2018
Gotta love the shameless lies spread by the fake news media. When CNN wonders why people don’t trust them and gets called fake news, just remember how they support articles like this. https://t.co/5ZdUZobxsQ
— the OG of Talking Heads (@thinkingcap33) June 23, 2018
Powerfully wrong. https://t.co/jCQcukMIQY
— EdgarAlanPoPo (@EdgarAlanPolice) June 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/lovelyrskat/status/1010167864697982983
Because it epitomizes #FakeNews. https://t.co/KjipT8t1Y5
— Frex (@Frex2014) June 23, 2018
Hi @CNN and @cnni You realize that this Time cover is #FakeNews right? Oh that is right, you don't care since thats what you do. Just #FakeNewsMedia https://t.co/Tx4ewJ2fPF
— Kevin (@Schvidah) June 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/tinkpoop/status/1010134157668777985
Please explain how this fake & photoshopped story is “powerful”? #tiredoffakenews #pleasereportthetruth https://t.co/rmfDMcvumZ
— Kelli Olszewski (@kellioloveslife) June 23, 2018
Straight propaganda https://t.co/HuQKcxzhXx
— Shoeskie (@JakeHandshoe) June 22, 2018
Yeah powerfully false, sure. It's powerful for no other reason than that it is blatantly inaccurate but the US still eats it right up. https://t.co/CpJAXCgpzm
— Courtneylius (@courtneylius) June 23, 2018
Because it tells a story you want to be true. https://t.co/zelg7r2Xhn
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) June 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/Jphugo95/status/1010587853439594496
And you don't think the liberal media is pushing an agenda.. https://t.co/LEe9PlQDsD
— Eddy Wynn (@Mizzou_Cards_NO) June 23, 2018
It's literally a false narrative https://t.co/P4TYZ7k9ky
— Nolan (@_Nolski) June 23, 2018
"Let's exploit with small child by using a picture of her out of context to own the cons."– the media https://t.co/tbNUlXdL3S
— Duchess of Bourbon AnnaD (@AnnaDsays) June 22, 2018
Because it exploited the decency and humanity of honest people to push a political agenda. It’s a powerful example of malicious propaganda that would do Putin proud and @CNNi was echo chamber for this despicable excuse for journalism https://t.co/2IAWqakv3G
— James Jay Carafano (@JJCarafano) June 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/callmeMallas/status/1010471106082426880
What a pathetic, photoshopping, lying and dishonest cover. Her mother was with her. Liberals cannot have an intellectual debate. https://t.co/bZ6mGfDOQw
— Brad L Horton (@BradLHorton) June 23, 2018
Entire anti-@realDonaldTrump liberal media of US have to lie, manipulate images, create news out of no where to stop this man, says a lot about their credentials. No wonder Trump calls them 'fake news'. https://t.co/5FkSnNkBRA
— রাজদীপ | Rajdeep (@LostProphet77) June 23, 2018
Nice "correction". No truth, just fewer lies and all opinion. Opinion isn't news. https://t.co/1HodsSGZvP
— Tired Ole Grandma (@kathyth0mas) June 23, 2018
This is just pitiful https://t.co/zH8iOjTjSe
— Sye Head (@Sye_Head) June 22, 2018
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Daily Mail: Crying child on TIME cover 'never separated by border control agents' from her mother https://t.co/eO5Q5Qgy6t
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 22, 2018
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