> People like to say Time Magazine made the mistake, because it blows it out of proportion and sounds better. If you say that one writer - David Johnson - made

> People like to say Time Magazine made the mistake, because it blows it out of proportion and sounds better. If you say that one writer - David Johnson - made a mistake, it entirely loses its punch. Publications have editors on staff to check what they publish, before they print and distribute millions of copies of every sentence in the issue. There's a longstanding and ubiquitous norm that publications are absolutely responsible for what they publish, and for good reason. You may as well say that Facebook isn't responsible for its norm violation du jour; just the PM who thought of it and the couple engineers that implemented it. (which isn't to say that this is anything more than mildly amusing, but claiming that attributing the error to Time instead of one of its writers is "blowing it out of proportion" couldn't be more wrong)