Posted on 07/17/2013 1:39:49 PM PDT by lbryce
Rolling Stone has defended its controversial new cover featuring Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after triggering a firestorm of comments.
The August issue of the music magazine features a story and photo of Tsarnaev and is titled: "The Bomber: How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster."
After a flurry of negative comments online -- and some commercial stores vowing to refuse to sell this month's issue -- Rolling Stone released a statement defending the cover.
"Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, and our thoughts are always with them and their families," Rolling Stone said. "The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone's long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day."
The magazine added that "the fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens."
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HYPE a rag that isn’t selling as much anymore!!!
WHATEVER it takes, right???
They could have used a picture of him, that won’t make chicks go, “Wow, he’s dreamy.”
This should be fun to watch.
Rolling Stone is being provacative. The same way a hooker dresses provacative. They need attention to sell their goods.
Rolling Stone, like a lot of the media is irrelevent and nobody is paying any attention to them.
This is their way of getting attention.... It worked...unfortunately.
Don’t laugh. There is a Facebook group of young girls who do agree that he’s “dreamy”. AND they are raising money for his defense!!
Doesn’t shock me a bit.
Dzhokhar was a good boy, just tryin’ to turn his life around...waitin’ on Ramadan...lovin’ his Islam.....
Not only that, he was Time's Man of the Year in 1938--the next year, it was Stalin.
Now that he’s got his picture on the cover, he can buy five copies for his mother!
He’s gonna buy five copies for his mother.
It’s a big liberal magazine making a hero out of a guy who targeted a big liberal event in the bluest section of the voting map.
If you can’t follow all the ironies in that, I can’t help you.
They put him on the cover because he looks like a young Bob Dylan
I watches the video and I saw Crystal scream when she realized she was going to die. I saw Todd’s legs as they wheeled him away. Joker is not cool...joker needs to be terminated.
Who knew Mic Jagger’s band owned a rag?
Want a useful BOYCOTT this is it,Well see whos in whos out ,Outs need to be outed for ever!!
They might as well borrowed the line from their Jim Morrison cover.
“He’s Hot....He’s Sexy....And He’s a Terrorist”
The Rolling Stone sickos might as well be hung for a cow as a calf if it's attention they want. /s
Leni
Lets think back in time.
In the 1770’s a newsmagazine which which porrayed George III on its cover as a hero would be ripped off the stands and burned, the presses would be wrecked, and the printer tarred and feathered and road out of town on a rail.
Interesting. Who is worse, Tsarnaev or George III? I don’t think its George III.
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