TIME's Photo Essay of the DNC

The scribes at Time magazine irritatingly write of Al Gore speech:

DREAMS OF RECOUNTS:
"In a funny, self-depreciating speech, Al Gore joked about his Florida loss and pressed the point that, in what will be a very tight election, every vote matters"

TIME.com: Democratic National Convention: Opening Night (4)

Self-depreciating, isn't that redundant? Depreciating always refers to a decline in value of the self or the entity. Depreciation inheres in the entity as it were, and that's why it's a bummer.

Self-deprecating is what this scribe means, surely. There was a time, I was tortured senseless to read this rag because the writing was good. What the fuck happened? Does nobody proof this shit anymore?