TIME MAGAZINE published a story in which it alleged that a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the White House Oval Office immediately after Trump took the presidential oath. Caught in the lie, TIME tried to explain it as a "mistake," referring back to Obama's removal of a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office after HE took office; that bust was replaced by King's bust.
The press and media have an inherent freedom to report the news and an obligation to be objective. Lies published in the pretense of news, however, simply must be abolished. This lie could well have stirred up a huge racial unrest in the country. While TIME blamed the reporter, Zeke Miller, TIME is the publisher and it, in turn, has the responsibility to verify the overall veracity and individual facts of stories it publishes.
The truth is that you cannot believe a word you read in TIME; they've just given you amply reason to cancel your subscription and to quit buying from its advertisers.
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