{"id":2299506,"date":"2024-07-18T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/times-new-issue-cover-lacks-iconic-trump-fist-pump-photo\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:47:19","slug":"new-issue-of-time-magazine-does-not-feature-iconic-trump-fist-pump-photo-on-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-issue-of-time-magazine-does-not-feature-iconic-trump-fist-pump-photo-on-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"New issue of Time magazine does not feature iconic Trump fist-pump photo on cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-issue-of-time-magazine-does-not-feature-iconic-trump-fist-pump-photo-on-cover%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2299506&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Time magazine&#8217;s decision to change its cover for the August\u200c 2024 issue has \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-commuting-his-sentence-ca-gov-newsom-reverses-parole-for-convicted-double-murderer\/\" title=\"After Commuting His Sentence, CA Gov. Newsom Reverses Parole For Convicted Double Murderer\">sparked controversy<\/a>. Initially featuring a bloodied Trump fist-pumping after surviving an \u200dassassination \u2064attempt, the cover was abruptly replaced with a black-and-white image of empty rally stands with the words &#8220;What Unites Us.&#8221; \u2062This change came after \u2063anonymous corporate media photographers expressed concerns that photos of the\u2063 event could be used as\u2064 propaganda by the \u2062Trump \u200bcampaign. The magazine&#8217;s new\u200c cover and accompanying \u200carticle by former editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs focus on calls\u200c for unity and lowering\u200d partisan tensions. The sudden shift \u200cin tone has raised questions \u2062about\u2064 Time&#8217;s editorial decisions and\u200d potential influence from external pressures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Time&rsquo;s decision to debut a new August 2024 cover that lacks any of the iconic images or headlines detailing the attempted assassination of the former president that its original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wow-shifty-dominion-uses-a-factcheck-statement-by-cisa-group-that-includes-dominion-to-prove-its-innocence-on-its-own-factcheck-page\/\" title=\"WOW! Shifty Dominion Uses a &quot;FactCheck&quot; Statement by CISA Group that INCLUDES DOMINION to &quot;Prove&quot; Its Innocence on Its Own &quot;FactCheck&quot; Page\">front page<\/a> communicated is raising eyebrows. The change suspiciously lined up with anonymous corporate media complaints that Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign are benefitting from circulation of the viral photos of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The corporate media magazine announced an August 2024 issue cover featuring a bloodied Trump fist-pumping after surviving an attempted assassination on<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TIME\/status\/1812508938639642835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> July 14<\/a> &mdash; less than 24 hours after The Associated Press&rsquo;s Evan Vucci captured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/silence-is-complicity-on-tree-of-life-synagogue-shooting-anniversary-biden-admin-condemns-heinous-attack\/\" title=\"\u2018Silence Is Complicity\u2019: On Tree Of Life Synagogue Shooting Anniversary, Biden Admin Condemns \u2018Heinous Attack\u2019\">iconic image<\/a> at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally. The Trump cover was the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TIME\/status\/1806788544410615905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second one<\/a> proposed for the August 5 issue. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Just four days later, on July 18, however, Time had not only pushed the triumphant Trump photo aside as the pinned post on its <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TIME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X page<\/a> but completely reframed its August 2024 issue to adopt <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/15\/they-dont-want-unity-they-want-a-reset-dont-give-it-to-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats&rsquo; and their media allies&rsquo;<\/a> faux calls to lower the temperature and put out the partisan fire <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/14\/the-left-spent-years-running-an-assassination-prep-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they spent <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/14\/democrats-now-decrying-assassination-attempt-spent-8-years-fanning-flames-of-hatred-for-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">years stoking.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TIME\/status\/1813891975260574087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new cover<\/a> features a black-and-white still of the emptied rally stands at the Butler Farm Show Grounds. Superimposed above the scene stained with evidence of chaos and panic is a full-color American flag and the words &ldquo;What Unites Us.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The accompanying link to the cover photo posted to Time&rsquo;s social media timeline takes readers to an article by the magazine&rsquo;s former editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs, who claims she knows <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6999339\/political-violence-america-unity\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_term=politics_&amp;linkId=511240778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;How America Can Still Come Together.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The cover change comes mere days after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/16\/trump-shooting-photos-photographers-view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">July 15 report from Axios<\/a> claiming that several unnamed corporate media photographers are &ldquo;worried&rdquo; iconic photos of a bullet-grazed Trump raising a clenched hand in front of the American flag &ldquo;could turn into a kind of &lsquo;photoganda,&rsquo; with the Trump campaign using them to further their agenda despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-buzz-babydog-and-ear-bandages-provide-comic-relief-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"RNC Buzz: Babydog and ear bandages provide comic relief - Washington Examiner\">photographers&#038;rsquo<\/a>; intent of capturing a news event.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Another photographer who has freelanced for major publications worried that the photo would become &lsquo;a propaganda machine,&rsquo; with the image itself making Trump &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/14\/trump-assassination-attempt-martyr-rnc\">a martyr<\/a>,&rsquo;&rdquo; the publication noted. <\/p>\n<p>None of the anonymous reporters went on the record to air their complaints, but Axios printed their belief that Vucci&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/richmond-art-museums-whistler-to-cassatt-show-is-another-triumph\/\" title=\"Richmond Art Museum\u2019s \u2018Whistler To Cassatt\u2019 Show Is Another Triumph\">historic photo<\/a> had become a &ldquo;kind of free P.R. for Trump&rdquo; that is too &ldquo;dangerous&rdquo; to amplify &ldquo;despite how good it is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>When The Federalist pressed Time about the drastic tone shift featured on the front page of its August 2024 cover and asked whether it was related to the concerns printed by Axios, a spokeswoman claimed that &ldquo;TIME regularly publishes multiple covers for each print issue.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It is not unheard of for Time to issue multiple cover options for the same issue in big news months. The spokeswoman, however, refused to answer questions about how often Time releases multiple covers for the same issue. She also wouldn&rsquo;t say how the outlet decides which of those covers get distributed for resale.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Both the &lsquo;Attack on Trump&rsquo; cover and the &lsquo;What Unites Us&rsquo; cover are scheduled to be printed with the Aug. 5 TIME magazine,&rdquo; the spokeswoman confirmed to The Federalist. She did not specify how many of the copies sent to third-party sellers would have the Trump-focused front page instead of the black-and-white cover.<\/p>\n<p>The AP photographer who captured the iconic image did not immediately respond to The Federalist&rsquo;s request for comment. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6998896\/behind-the-cover-interview-evan-vucci-trump-photorgraph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview with Time<\/a> on the same day Axios published its anonymously sourced report, however, Vucci claimed that &ldquo;how people view the images and how they market it, and how they use it for their own point of views, that&rsquo;s none of my concern.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My concern is that when that incident happened, I felt like I did a really good job showing you a key moment in American history,&rdquo; he said. <\/p>\n<blockquote data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9Y2GN_sfkt\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time&#8217;s decision to release a new cover for its August 2024 issue that does not feature any images or headlines related to the attempted assassination of the former president has caused speculation. This change coincided with complaints from anonymous corporate media sources that Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign were benefiting from the circulation of viral photos of the event. The original cover featured a bloodied Trump fist-pumping after surviving the assassination attempt, but was later replaced with a black-and-white image of empty rally stands with the words &#8220;What Unites Us.&#8221; This change was made in response to calls to lower the political temperature and put out partisan fires. The decision to change the cover came after concerns were raised by unnamed photographers that the iconic images of the event could be used as propaganda by the Trump campaign. Time regularly publishes multiple cover options for each issue, but did not provide details on how these decisions are made or how many copies of each cover will be distributed. The photographer who captured the original image stated that his concern was capturing a key moment in American history, not how the images were used for political purposes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2299507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-18-at-11.34.51%E2%80%AFAM-e1721320515774-1024x576.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35488,35487,3634],"class_list":["post-2299506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fist-pump","tag-time-magazine","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-18-at-11.34.51%E2%80%AFAM-e1721320515774-1024x576.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}