TIME's Crying-Girl Cover: The Toddler Who Wasn't Separated
TIME's reporting on John Moore's photo of a crying 2-year-old Honduran girl said she was carried off by agents, and the magazine put her on its cover beside Trump as the face of family separation.
The error made the girl a symbol of a separation policy that, in her case, did not apply, sharpening the case against Trump's border policy.
What was reported
TIME's reporting on John Moore's photo of a crying 2-year-old Honduran girl said she was carried off by agents, and the magazine put her on its cover beside Trump as the face of family separation.
What actually happened
TIME's online story said agents took the girl away while she screamed. The photographer flagged the error, and TIME added a correction saying her mother picked her up and the two were taken away together. The girl's father told reporters she had never been separated from her mother, and ICE said mother and daughter were held together at a family facility. TIME kept the cover, saying it still captured the stakes of the policy.
The proof
TIME's own appended correction, plus the father's on-record account and ICE's confirmation that mother and child were detained together.
The receipt. Copy this and paste it anywhere:
TIME's Crying-Girl Cover: The Toddler Who Wasn't Separated — Retracted. TIME's own appended correction, plus the father's on-record account and ICE's confirmation that mother and child were detained together. Full file: https://www.thepropagandafiles.com/case/time-crying-honduran-girl-cover/
Original reporting
- TIME: longform story on the John Moore photo (corrected)http://time.com/longform/john-moore-getty-photo-separation/
- ABC7: TIME cover featuring Trump and the crying girlhttps://abc7.com/post/time-magazine-cover-features-trump-immigrant-girl/3630987/
Corrections, findings & records
- NBC News: TIME issues correction on photo of crying 2-year-oldhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/time-issues-correction-photo-crying-2-year-old-migrant-n885836
- TheWrap: TIME corrects story, family was never separatedhttps://www.thewrap.com/time-magazine-corrects-story-crying-migrant-girl-admits-family-never-separated
- Mediaite: TIME stands by cover after photo correctionhttps://www.mediaite.com/online/time-magazine-stands-by-cover-after-photo-correction-captures-stakes-of-this-moment
Archived copies
Stories get edited after publication. These open the Internet Archive's earliest saved copy of each original.
- Archived copy: TIME: longform story on the John Moore photo (corrected)https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://time.com/longform/john-moore-getty-photo-separation/
- Archived copy: ABC7: TIME cover featuring Trump and the crying girlhttps://web.archive.org/web/2/https://abc7.com/post/time-magazine-cover-features-trump-immigrant-girl/3630987/