Time Magazine Declares 2020 “Worst Year Ever”
It is the fifth time the magazine has used the symbol for the worst foes humanity has faced
With a pandemic in place, the economies of states are in a decline, and the rising unemployment across the globe, Time Magazine has elided 2020 with red color and declared it “the worst year ever”.
The Magazine’s twitter handle uploaded a video captioning, “2020 tested us beyond measure. Where we go after this awful year”.
TIME’s new cover: 2020 tested us beyond measure. Where we go after this awful year https://t.co/5raFYUSgeZ pic.twitter.com/im3NWiBqJC
— TIME (@TIME) December 5, 2020
The latest cover of Time Magazine 2020 shows a big red “X” over it.
The Time wrote about the history of red “X” on cover, “It is the latest in a long tradition saved for some of the worst foes humanity has faced in the magazine’s history”.
Previously, Time has used a red “X” on its cover four times. The first time it came in marking the death of Adolf Hitler, a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party in 1945 and later the same year, over Japan’s rising sun marking the end of the war in the Pacific theater.
The second time red “X” was used in 2003 at the beginning of the Iraq war, it crossed out Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth President.
The third “X” on Time’s cover was in the year 2006 when U.S forces killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi.
The most recent usage of red “X” on Time’s cover came in 2011, when the founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, was killed.
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The lead article of the magazine dredged the coronavirus pandemic, the nationwide protests against the death of George Floyd, an African American man killed during an arrest, the death of notable figures including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American professional basketball player Kobe Bryant and American actor Chadwick Boseman.
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