If you watched the end of the interview you’ll see why he went on. Couric mentions in the course of plugging his book that it is published by Simon and Schuster which is owned by CBS. That probably had something to do with it.
Also, he mentioned how the photo TIME used was years old. Is that legal? Can any magazine just pick any picture of some they want and put it on the cover? I guess so.
So you are saying Beck is a sellout?
And yes anyone can publish any picture they want of someone.