Dec 2 -
timeandrelativedeductioninspace:
AMURRRICA.
Basically, it’s up to us to show the world that we can, actually, be treated like real people, and that we don’t need to pull the blinds shut.
Look, it’s unreasonable to expect TIME to bankrupt itself by using less marketable images on the cover. America is a consumer culture in which people choose what magazine looks interesting and applicable to their interests/situation.
What’s more, the stories on the covers of the foreign issues of TIME were actually in the magazine itself, if not on the cover.
Your outrage is invalid
The fact that you think it’s okay that Time magazine, one of the biggest media conglomerates in the world and a highly reputable news source, has to choose to censor a cover in the U.S. is appalling. Just because we are a consumer culture does not mean we should be pacified. TIME would not bankrupt itself by running the covers, they would spark much needed debate.
It certainly isn’t the end of the world that they chose not to run the covers, but it speaks to an issue larger than itself.
It’s time for American’s to be scared about seemingly-innocent censorship.
Let’s get it together America.
(Source: diarrheaheartfailure)
And now we are young
