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![]() The latest issue of Rolling Stone that hits newsstands this Friday will feature Boston bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover in a glamour shot reminiscent of Jim Morrison and other music icons that once graced the coveted liberal magazine spot.
This decision has obviously sparked outrage among many and already leading to boycotts of the magazine with both readers and vendors who say they will not sell the issue. Opponents of this move to put a terrorist on the cover say it glamorizes Tsarnaev while Rolling Stone defends their action by stating because he is the same age as many of their readers it's important to understand how he became a radical Islamic monster. What's your take? Did Rolling Stone cross the line or can this become an educational tool? Quote:
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![]() Recall shortly after the bombing I commented on the OA attempting to minimize the attack as not being terrorism. It happened.
Now the Rolling Stone does its part glamorizing the bomber with a star shot cover photo and cover text absolving the young man from responsibility. It has taken more than 3 years for the Ft Hood shooter's trial to begin. Expect the Boston bomber trial to be delayed even longer. |
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![]() Problem is young people are impressionable and he has a following of supporters.
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![]() While I understand their reasons for wanting to do a prominent article, putting the title of that article on the cover would have been sufficient. What they did plays into one of the reasons suicide bombers do it: martyrdom, fame, reward. Now the terrorist training camps can hold up an issue of the Rolling Stone and say "You can be famous and be on the cover of international magazines if you go kill people too!" It's another aid in their propaganda machine and it just seems to me that anyone there who would have done any research at all into the mindset of many terrorists would have known that.
I won't boycott the magazine, but I think whoever made the decision to put him on the cover was a ****ing idiot.
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