Rolling Stone 'rock star' treatment for accused Boston bomber?

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Rolling Stone magazine is drawing fire for putting Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover, in a glam shot that critics say continues to blur the line between fame and infamy.

The picture, which accompanies a story titled "Jahar's World," shows the accused murderer with his long, curly hair tousled and the hint of a goatee, reminiscent of the magazine's iconic shots of rock and roll royalty like The Doors' Jim Morrison. The cover could send a dangerous message to Tsarnaev's warped supporters, said one critic.

"If they want to become famous, kill somebody," Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told MyFoxBoston.com.

The issue, which hits newsstands Friday, depicts an unsmiling Tsarnaev, 19, above a boldface headline, "The Bomber." The story, which features interviews from childhood friends, teachers and law enforcement agents, promises to reveal how a “popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster."

In a blog posting late Tuesday, Rolling Stone detailed “five revelations” in the story by contributing editor Janet Reitman, including Tsarnaev's increasing devotion to Islam while still in high school, as well as his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible mental illness, which the boys' mother decided would be better treated by Islam than by a psychiatrist.

“Around 2008, Jahar’s older brother Tamerlan confided to his mother that he felt like ‘two people’ were inside him,” the blog posting reads. “She confided this to a close friend who felt he might need a psychiatrist, but Zubeidat believed that religion would be the cure for her son’s inner demons and growing mental instability, and pushed him deeper into Islam.”

Rolling Stone has not commented publicly on the decision to put Tsarnaev on the cover, which recently featured actor Johnny Depp and singers Rihanna and Justin Bieber.

Supporters of Tsarnaev, who believe in the face of overwhelming evidence that he’s innocent of the charges against him, appeared last week during his federal court appearance in Boston. Some wore T-shirts with phrases like “Free the Lion,” while others held “Free Jahar” signs outside Boston's John Joseph Moakley federal courthouse on Wednesday.

“Give Dzhokhar back his life,” one protester reportedly said.

“If you really cared about the victims you would be more interested in the truth,” said another Tsarnaev supporter.

The Rolling Stone cover quickly drew a negative reaction on social media, as "Boycott Rolling Stone" quickly became a trending Twitter topic in Boston.

"Very rarely does something make me so mad I have a negative tweet, but #BoycottRollingStone," one user posted early Wednesday. "Absolutely unacceptable."

Many other Twitter users indicated they would never purchase another Rolling Stone magazine.

"Way to glorify a madman," another posting read.

Federal authorities allege that the Tsarnaev brothers planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. The explosions killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

Four days later, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who survived a shootout with police during which Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed, was captured following a daylong manhunt in the Boston suburb of Watertown.

Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty last week to 30 counts of a federal indictment. If the government decides to seek capital punishment, Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted on one of 17 counts.
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Rolling Stone blasted for giving 'rock star' treatment to accused Boston bomber | Fox News
 
Glad to see that CVS is refusing to sell the magazine.
 
It's a freedom of speech issue.

However, it's also governed by capitalism, if nobody buys the magazine they won't be doing that again.
 
VacationGuy234 said:
It is, but the only way to combat that is with free speech. And, your wallet.
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I don't buy their mag anyway so me continuing to not buy it isn't going to hurt them much. :lol:

I was commenting on the fact that the cover will probably increase sales. This is the county that had Jerry Springer after all. Distasteful sells here.
 
jonnyghost said:
I don't buy their mag anyway so me continuing to not buy it isn't going to hurt them much. :lol:

I was commenting on the fact that the cover will probably increase sales. This is the county that had Jerry Springer after all. Distasteful sells here.
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I agree.
 
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check out Hitler's photo on Times magazine , this is not the first time or will it be the last mass murder photo will be on a magazine or newspaper cover. I do not buy Rolling Stone and have not read the article so I can't say if they gave the Boston bomber star treatment. I wonder if public libraries have Rolling Stones .
 
For those who think that there is no influence from being on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine, read these lyrics:

DR. HOOK AND THE MEDICINE SHOW
"Cover Of The Rolling Stone"

Well we're big rock singers
We got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show
We take all kinda pills
That give us all kinda thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll getcha
When you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone

Wanna see my picture on the cover
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover the cover of the Rollin' Stone

I got a freaky old lady
Name a Cocaine Katie
Who embroideries on my jeans
I got my poor ol' grey haired Daddy
Drivin' my limousine
Now it's all designed
To blow our minds

But our minds won't really be blown
Like the blow that'll getcha
When you get your picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone

Wanna see my pictures on the cover
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Wanna see my smiling face
On the cover the cover of the Rollin' Stone

We gotta lotta little teenage blue-eyed groupies
Who'll do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian guru
Who's teachin' us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy
So we never have to be alone
And we keep gettin' richer, but we can't get our picture
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone

Wanna see my picture on the cover
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone
Gonna see my picture on the cover
Gonna buy five copies for my mother
Gonna see my smiling face
On the cover of the Rollin' Stone​
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That was in 1972.

It continues today.
 
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CVS will not take and sell that issue. They and other stores boycotted it.
 
" Four days later, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who survived a shootout with police during which Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed, was captured following a daylong manhunt in the Boston suburb of Watertown.

Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty last week to 30 counts of a federal indictment. If the government decides to seek capital punishment, Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted on one of 17 counts."

Regarding this...I find it absurd that he plead not guilty after all that overwhelming evidence against him. lol.
 
Reba said:
For those who think that there is no influence from being on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine, read these lyrics:



That was in 1972.

It continues today.
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is that rapping
i unable to get links but fox news is one link so is that to be taken seriously.
 
http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/rolling-stone-editors-defend-controversial-cover/



I think what the Rolling Stones editor said made sense . So should we not talk about what happen in Boston ? And if people do not like the cover they do not have buy it. I do not want to lose our Freedom of Speech too as we're already losing our rights to privacy . People needs to be careful about what they complaint about . It could cost us all our Freedom of Speech
The government could decides that they needs to protect us helpless soles
from seeing or reading anything that will made us feel uncomfortable.
If you do not agree with RS keep your money in your wallet and let people decides for their self . I had to write a paper about a well known person when I was in high school , all the girls wanted to write about some 'handsome actor. I decided to do my paper on Hitler and not because he was a 'Rock Star' ,I wanted people not to forget what happen, as no one was talking about it and we did not talk about Hitler in our history class . I hope there something about the Boston bomber in our history books so students will understand why we live the way we do now .
 
Reba said:
The real face of terror:

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/07/18/tsarnaev/

Mass. cop who released photos of Boston bombing suspect faces hearing | Fox News
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And to think it took 9,000 DHS, FBI, CIA and police to put a military lock down on a U. S. city, and a door to door armed search where they forced American citizens (at gun point) to exit their homes, and executed numerous 4th amendment violations, for some random guy to take a smoke break in his back yard and find him.

Even after having been warned by Russian authorities about these guys having terrorist ties ... even with the snooping NSA ... a single random dude found him.

9,000 DHS, FBI, CIA and Police couldn't find him in a military lock down. In a State strongly discouraging private ownership of firearms (especially within city limits).

If that had happened here, the only police involvement that would have been needed would have been to stop an entire neighborhood from shooting the terrorist.



(P.S. and out of all the businesses told to remain closed during the lockdown, the Police "allowed" Dunkin Donuts to stay open)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/watertown-dunkin-donuts-stay-open_n_3117323.html





And as far as the suspect who set off a bomb in such a cowardly fashion and forever altered the lives of the victims who survived, and robbed families of the victims who were killed? I ain't buying Rolling Stones magazine ever again. They lost a customer for life.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I think what the Rolling Stones editor said made sense. So should we not talk about what happen in Boston? And if people do not like the cover they do not have buy it.
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That is exactly what they're doing; they're not buying the issue.

I do not want to lose our Freedom of Speech too as we're already losing our rights to privacy. People needs to be careful about what they complaint about. It could cost us all our Freedom of Speech
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No one is asking the government to censure the issue. People are free to buy the magazine on-line or in other stores. Rolling Stone is not prohibited by the government from publishing or selling the magazine.

The government could decides that they needs to protect us helpless soles from seeing or reading anything that will made us feel uncomfortable.
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So far, the government doesn't seem interested in protecting either soles or souls.

If you do not agree with RS keep your money in your wallet and let people decides for their self. I had to write a paper about a well known person when I was in high school, all the girls wanted to write about some 'handsome actor. I decided to do my paper on Hitler and not because he was a 'Rock Star', I wanted people not to forget what happen, as no one was talking about it and we did not talk about Hitler in our history class. I hope there something about the Boston bomber in our history books so students will understand why we live the way we do now.
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I'm all for reporting the facts on notorious people. The difference between your research paper and the magazine cover is that you weren't trying to make Hitler look like a sympathetic, handsome, innocent idol.
 
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