We’ll take your word for it
“We never go to into a cover thinking, ‘Oh let’s just shock people.’ We really don’t,” says Time magazine design director D.W. Pine.
“We really want to make sure we’re being fair to the subject and illustrating the subject …In the end, we’re here to sell magazines, and we hope it sells magazines.”
* Newsweeklies turning up volume on covers (WWD.com)

Time Magazine still publishes????
No, that gets more clever every time you do it. Really.