Michael Crowley (journalist)
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Michael Crowley is senior foreign affairs correspondent for POLITICO.
Biography
Education
Crowley is a 1994 graduate of Yale University
Career
From 2010 to 2014, Crowley was a writer, editor and senior foreign affairs correspondent for Time. From 2000 to 2010 he was a writer for The New Republic, where he covered domestic politics and foreign policy. He was also a reporter at the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix. His work has also been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, New York and Slate. He often appears on PBS, NPR and MSNBC. Crowley has reported from more than a dozen countries, including Iraq, China, Israel, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Lebanon, Germany and Ukraine.
Enrique Peña Nieto Time cover controversy
Michael Crowley wrote an article on Enrique Peña Nieto, the President of Mexico (2012-2018), entitled Saving Mexico and featured as the cover article in the February 2014 issue of Time. Upon release the article met with controversy.[1] [2] The article praised the president and his cabinet for reforms such as opening oil fields for foreign investment for the first time in 75 years (a reform for which Mexican citizens have shown mixed feelings), ending the Mexican drug wars (not completely accurate), and even going as far as saying "the opposition party blocked major reforms that were necessary", that "American leaders could learn a thing or two from their resurgent southern neighbor" and saying Mexican citizens' "alarms were replaced with applause".[3] The last part proved untrue when the magazine cover, featuring a picture of Peña Nieto and the legend Saving Mexico, immediately spawned heavy backlash on social media. It became a meme[4] and spawned multiple parody covers. These ranged from changing the legend to mock phrases such as Selling Mexico, Slaving Mexico, Starving Mexico and Who is saving Mexico from this asshole?, to editing Peña Nieto into clown make-up, dressed as the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ and the Pope, to a cover featuring an old lady holding a gun with the legend Saving Mexico... pero de Peña Nieto (but from Peña Nieto). Multiple articles criticized the Time article, and some websites even asked Time if Peña Nieto paid for the cover story.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] The controversy even led Crowley to write on Twitter, "Remarkable how many critics of Mexico's president seem to believe I must have literally taken a bribe to write a positive story about him."[12]
References
- ^ "TIME Magazine Cover: Saving Mexico - Feb. 24, 2014".
- ^ City, Michael Crowley / Mexico. "The Committee to Save Mexico".
- ^ Crowley, Michael (24 February 2014). "Mexico's New Mission" – via content.time.com.
- ^ "Spoofs of Time's Saving Mexico cover (with images, tweets) · alexleff".
- ^ "Saving Mexico? Selling Mexico? Slaying Mexico? - VICE - United States". 21 February 2014.
- ^ "Outrage and disbelief in Mexico over latest cover of TIME".
- ^ "Enrique Peña Nieto Graces 'Time' Cover And Stirs Controversy". 13 February 2014.
- ^ "Outrage Over Peña Nieto's Time Cover". 13 February 2014.
- ^ Digital, Fox News. "FoxNews.com - Breaking News - Latest News - Current News".
- ^ "Time magazine just made lots of enemies in Mexico".
- ^ "TIME Magazine's Pay-to-Play Puff Piece on Mexican President Provokes Widespread Ridicule in Mexico - the narcosphere".
- ^ "Michael Crowley on Twitter".
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