Newsweek to Reuters: “Here, hold my beer.”
Via NY Daily News:
Newsweek tweeted, then quickly deleted an image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an open casket Monday with a link to an article about notable historical anniversaries in 2018.
King’s daughter, Bernice A. King, was among the score of twitter users who were outraged by its use of the image.
“Why, @Newsweek? Wow,” she wrote, referring to the since deleted post.
Newsweek removed the tweet and issued an apology to the King family.
“Earlier this afternoon we published an opinion piece with an insensitive image of Martin Luther King Jr. We sincerely apologize to the King family for this egregious error,” the news outlet said on Twitter.
Bernice King went live on social media Monday afternoon to discuss the incident.
“Today I saw where Newsweek published this insensitive image of my father,” she said.
She urged the media to consider King’s family before sharing images of the civil rights activist, particularly in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the leader’s assassination.
“We must never forget that Dr. King was a husband and was a father so we deal all the time just with continuing to manage our father and the great work that he’s done…so it was difficult,” she said of seeing the image.