TIME Breastfeeds its Sales

Don’t people breastfeed their children in public already? So then there should be absolutely no problem with L.A. mom Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her three year old on the cover of TIME Magazine, right? Wrong. TIME should see a good week (sales and analytics) thanks to the power of social and the ginormous debate shaping on the social web today about said cover. Getting attention for a “shocking” cover via social is probably seen as a legitimate survival tactic to help boost sales at the rack. Wonder how these covers from the past would have fared today. In an industry fighting for subscritions, can you blame TIME for these tactics? Those fluent in Photoshop might:

Image via HappyPlace.com

-Dan, TGPR

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