Rolling Stone under fire for cover featuring Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

This is certainly a slick, smartypants way of boosting RS circulation. We're talking about them. Everyone is talking about them. The more they are banned from newsstands, the more Rolling Stones they will sell.

It's a slick way of alienating your subscribers. I can see 'Time' or 'Newsweek' doing this, but Rolling Stone is meant to highlight the up and coming or popular artist. That person is none of the above.

And that picture! If it didn't say 'Bomber' on the front, I'd wonder which band he was in.

Bit risky, seems a lot of people aren't very happy about the dreamboat terrorist.

Glorifying this puke was not a good move. Sure, they can stand on vapid claims of 'journalistic integrity' all they want but RS lost any credibility in that regard long ago when they made clear that they're just another organ of the DNC.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... fair-obama

Rolling Stone stopped being cool around 1979

They've done it before but perhaps it was before your time ...when they put Charles Manson on the cover. At the time, anyway, Manson was see as a monster. Time and general ignorance have rehabilitated him but ther was considerable revulsion around making him attractive "cover art". Anyway,RS survived and thrived in the controversy

RS is a legitimate news magazine and has been publishing ground-breaking journalism for decades. This idiotic frenzy over the cover, featuring the main suspect in a major news item, is an absolute joke. By the standards of this discussion, Time Magazine is also pro-terrorist because it put Tim McVeigh on the cover different times between the OKC bombing and his eventual execution.

This whole topic is juvenile and ridiculous, which makes it strangely appropriate for this absolutely juvenile and ridiculous world we're all now stuck it. Chalk up another victory for the morons with this particularly stupid manufactured controversy.

What Thanos said. This was RS 1970



And yes RS does do real journalism. Can the same be said of Life?

When I did have access to RS I always enjoyed the more news like stuff they put in.

I think we should stop being offended by everything and always blame others.

There's no money to be made by getting along with each other.

All those award-winning frontline photos from WW2, Korea, and Vietnam were clearly a big left-wing ruse. LIFE magazine, the bastards, was obviously pro-Charles Manson.

This is the photo they should have used..





Blood on his hands, captured.

Oh yeah, that red spot on his forehead ? Sniper rifles.



http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog ... /tsarnaev/