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Time’s Fake News Cover and the Media’s Abandonment of Facts

Truth was a major theme of the media’s attacks on Trump. The New York Times is even selling a $300 t-shirt on that theme. Trump lies, while the media performs a public service by fact checking him. The media is all about the truth and the facts.

Except when it’s completely not.

Here’s Time boss Edward Felsenthal explaining his magazine’s fake news cover.

“Well, you know, as John just said and has said all along, none of us in the media who used the photo knew what had happened to the girl after this precise moment. And I think part of the power of the image is that unknown,” he declared.

Except that Time had claimed that the girl had been separated from her mother (there wouldn’t have been much mileage if she hadn’t been).

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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