This is just insane...I hope everyone boycotts Rolling Stone period.....

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/17/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-marathon-bombing-rolling-stone/2523891/

This is part of a trend we've seen more and more of over the last few decades, where much of the media focus, and sympathy, goes to the killer, not to the victim, especially if the killer fits the right profile (attractive, white, male).

Rolling Stone has to be loving this "controversy". So much free press!

This is part of a trend we've seen more and more of over the last few decades, where much of the media focus, and sympathy, goes to the killer, not to the victim, especially if the killer fits the right profile (attractive, white, male).

I do think that one of the reasons this picture was chosen to be on their cover is because they thought he was attractive. I think that this is awful. I do feel like they are trying to romanticize/give him some sort of rock star image, and it's terrible. They have his picture up there like he's a rock star like Kurt Cobain/Jim Morrison or John Lennon were. I don't think too many people care about what type of promise he had because he terrorized and killed people. It's not like he was a celebrity before he bombed Boston and they are trying to figure out what made him go wrong.

He's someone that no one knew outside of his family/friends/acquaintance who decided to kill people much like many other criminals have done before him. The other criminals didn't deserve magazine covers on RollingStone and neither does he. I could understand more if this was a cover for a magazine like Time or Newsweek, because they do cover stories about violence and crime in America but Rollingstone is a pop culture magazine. I think it would have been okay if they wrote an article about him without including the picture that they did of him on their cover.

Edited July 17, 201312 yr by xtr

To be fair, they did put Charles Manson on the cover decades ago but in this day and age, this sort of irresponsibility is unacceptable. It is just going to feed the crazies and fuel the "effed up ish gets you famous" mantra that Scream 4 so well illustrated.

Utterly and completely disgusted

The f-ck? Stupid bastards encouraging these people to go out and do something reckless for attention. SMDH.

Yup...now more nuts will come out of the shadows just to get on tv and on the mags...ugh.....

Edited July 18, 201312 yr by Soapsuds

I don't see it that way at all. Is it because it's on Rolling Stone? If the picture was on the cover of a magazine such as Newsweek, would you feel differently? I mean, Osama Bin Laden was on the cover of Time and Newsweek....

Edited July 18, 201312 yr by alphanguy74

I don't see it that way at all. Is it because it's on Rolling Stone? If the picture was on the cover of a magazine such as Newsweek, would you feel differently? I mean, Osama Bin Laden was on the cover of Time and Newsweek....

Ok those are news magazines and they weren't making Osama out to be some tragic hero.

Rolling Stone is a pop culture magazine and the cover story is some sob story about the bomber and painting him as a victim which is absolutely a disgrace to the memory of those he killed and the ones he injured.

Ok those are news magazines and they weren't making Osama out to be some tragic hero.

Rolling Stone is a pop culture magazine and the cover story is some sob story about the bomber and painting him as a victim which is absolutely a disgrace to the memory of those he killed and the ones he injured.

I don't think they are trying to make a hero out of him, they are trying to psychologically analyze why people become sociopathic like that. Maybe it IS a sob story, but also... maybe it's a cautionary tale that needs to be told, a kind of "don't do this to your children, or they will become a terrorist".

Rolling Stone can put whomever they want on their cover. It is up to me to decide whether or not I want to buy it.

People still read Rolling Stone in 2013?

Their editor tweeted, and then deleted, a whine that basically asks if they are supposed to be like Perez Hilton. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rolling-stone-editor-deletes-tweet-controversial-cover-article-1.1401933

I think it's time to change the name of this magazine to Trolling Stone.