Explosion in Boston?

[BadMoon]

I get the cover personally. I don't think it's "cool" and I think that's where some of the opposition comes from. It's not glorification to me. To me it reminds me that our young ones need guidance and can quickly be thrown off track. It's a Jekyll and Hyde piece in my opinion. The cover shows a relatively attractive young boy that committed a horrific act. I'm sure the article try's to make sense of it, however, I haven't read it. The cover says to me how "how does this happen and why"? I don't think it says "This guy is sexy and awesome"

I find the 12 year old Trayvon Martin pics in a hoodie far more offensive than this when taken in context. That is the media certainly trying to spin a web a lies and invite hate.

 

[devilof76]

I haven't read the article, but I suspect the motives are not that decent. They are comparable to what the media did with that 12 year old Martin pic.

Just stupid immature teens who have yet to experience real tragedy in their lives.

I think it's something more nefarious. Think college age #occupy twits who have decided he's innocent.

Gotta agree this is a bad call for RS.

This is a magazine artists and musicians strive to be on the cover of, it's a life long dream for some of them aspire to. This wasn't necassary even remotely nor current, the trial hasn't begun and we already were drowned in media coverage. This was a little too blatantly done as a cash grab and they seem to be losing a good deal of respect. This issue will sell well due to the controversy they created for it but I suspect future sales will continue to dwindle.

They're completely cashing in on the fan base he's acquired. The hipster anti-American, anti-war, anti-islamophobia full-time protestor zombies have made him into a posterboy/martyr for everything they hate. Their conviction that he's being framed as a scapegoat is so over-the-top histrionic that it would make the most devout alien conspiracist blush.

 

[BadMoon]

I haven't read the article, but I suspect the motives are not that decent. They are comparable to what the media did with that 12 year old Martin pic.



I think it's something more nefarious. Think college age #occupy twits who have decided he's innocent.



They're completely cashing in on the fan base he's acquired. The hipster anti-American, anti-war, anti-islamophobia full-time protestor zombies have made him into a posterboy/martyr for everything they hate. Their conviction that he's being framed as a scapegoat is so over-the-top histrionic that it would make the most devout alien conspiracist blush.

I will say this. I don't read RS. However if I wrote a story about a killer such as this the cover would be very similar. I would want people to understand that killers look like "normal" people. It's not a glory thing for me. It's a warning. I'm far more offended by other things. This stupid Jim Morrison want to be pic is hardly offensive to me considering everything else going on right now that people choose to ignore.

 

[devilof76]

If they're actually emphasizing the danger of writing off these timebombs as quiet, harmless, nextdoor neighbor's kids, then it's worth reading, and the outrage is jumping the gun. But if it's a sympathy piece, it is glorifying him, and the outrage is more than justified.

I wonder how the Manson article read.

...everything else going on right now that people choose to ignore.

Like the list of impeachable offenses beginning to pile up, that could never be acted on because they've rigged the whole place to erupt into a race war if anyone makes a serious attempt to bring them to account?

 

[BadMoon]

If they're actually emphasizing the danger of writing off these timebombs as quiet, harmless, nextdoor neighbor's kids, then it's worth reading, and the outrage is jumping the gun. But if it's a sympathy piece, it is glorifying him, and the outrage is more than justified.

I wonder how the Manson article read.

I haven't read it. So maybe my post is null and void. However, if they wrote it as a sympathy piece I know I don't want to.

I see that pic and see a monster. If others think "damn he looks cool, I wish I looked that good on a RS cover". Well then. That's a problem.

 

[devilof76]

It is indeed.

And I edited my last post. Forgot the most important part.

 

[BadMoon]

If they're actually emphasizing the danger of writing off these timebombs as quiet, harmless, nextdoor neighbor's kids, then it's worth reading, and the outrage is jumping the gun. But if it's a sympathy piece, it is glorifying him, and the outrage is more than justified.

I wonder how the Manson article read.



Like the list of impeachable offenses beginning to pile up, that could never be acted on because they've rigged the whole place to erupt into a race war if anyone makes a serious attempt to bring them to account?

Exactly...

Amongst other things they have slipped in. To be honest I wish people were as passionate over their own liberties as they want to proclaim they are for young thugs. Riots are happening for the wrong reasons day in and day out.

 

[devilof76]

We're stuck in a situation where we either defend ourselves against the Administrations transgressions, or face the wrath of those who will benefit most from the liberties they have destroyed. It's no coincidence that they're fighting this aggressively to inflame their mobs against the right to self-defense.

 

[Sachiel]

It doesn't matter what the cover says. It doesn't matter what the article inside says. What matters is the pretty photo of this ******* on the cover of Rolling Stone.

 

[The Ween]

It doesn't matter what the cover says. It doesn't matter what the article inside says. What matters is the pretty photo of this ******* on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Like I said before.....that's what the guy looks like! I didn't even think anything of it until some people started to *****.

I can't even remember when the last time I read a Rolling Stone. My eldest brother had said it used to be a newspaper type magazine.

 

[devilof76]

It doesn't matter that he looks like that. What matters is that he got on the cover of Rolling Stone because he looks like that, and it's beside the point that he's accused of being a four-time murderer.

Sachiel's right. Even if they were using it for shock value to direct people's attention to an important piece of journalism, **** them for using that.

 

[Lejuan]

Like I said before.....that's what the guy looks like! I didn't even think anything of it until some people started to *****.

I can't even remember when the last time I read a Rolling Stone. My eldest brother had said it used to be a newspaper type magazine.

I've done a bit of digging the past couple of days. Rolling Stone has a history of publishing socio-political articles. Were I the editor of the magazine and publishing an article on the bomber, I can't say I wouldn't have chosen that same image.

I can understand where people are coming from in taking offence to the cover, but personally I think how the image relates to the article does matter. Arriving at a value judgement based purely on principle rather than full engagement with the material is unfortunate imo.

 

[devilof76]

Rolling Stone was the first place I heard the phrase 'CIA Black Budget' (financing to the end of winning WW3, WW4, WW5, and WW6). William Greider, I'd bet. I was still in high school.

Hunter S. Thompson was a sports writer for Rolling Stone. Carrie Fisher interviewed Madonna in Rolling Stone. Just sayin'.

 

[The Ween]

Do you really think they put that on the cover to attract teenage girls though? They don't read Rolling Stone.

No if they were to put it on....whatever magazine they have for Beiber lovers, then I could see the complaints.

I have to wonder if anyone would've said anything if the guy was butt ugly. He is to me because of his acts, but I just wonder if it was his brother who had lived and was on the cover if there would've been such a controversy.

 

[devilof76]

It's not that Beiber lovers will flock to him. It's that his progressively enlightened fans are acting like Bieber lovers.

To whose advantage is it to pay homage to that kind of mindlessness?

 

[Sachiel]

I have to wonder if anyone would've said anything if the guy was butt ugly. He is to me because of his acts, but I just wonder if it was his brother who had lived and was on the cover if there would've been such a controversy.

It wouldn't have made much of a difference.

 

[The Ween]

It's not that Beiber lovers will flock to him. It's that his progressively enlightened fans are acting like Bieber lovers.

To whose advantage is it to pay homage to that kind of mindlessness?

I don't know. I haven't heard a think about anyone making a "hero" or whatever out of the guy, just some teens saying he's cute.

I don't know what the article is even about so I have no idea if Rolling Stone has any kind of agenda.

 

[surfin4]

Am i missing something??....rolling stone is a rock n roll magazine, and is it not the function of rock n roll to be dangerous, rebellious,edgy, its supposed to offend the old fogies,make them all reach for there bibles flags and pyjamas,they realise there are a whole section of the population who want something to ban or shout and ***** about.......JOB DONE!

 

[devilof76]

You mean it's their function to sympathize with violent radicals?

What about the non-elderly, atheistic rock n rollers who are pissed off?

And who is calling for a ban on anything? Perhaps you's like some orange in your green?

 

[surfin4]

You mean it's their function to sympathize with violent radicals?

What about the non-elderly, atheistic rock n rollers who are pissed off?

And who is calling for a ban on anything? Perhaps you's like some orange in your green?

Public enemy were violent radicals according to some, punk when it started was going to destroy civilization, death metal, elvis presley all dangerous at there time........now we got lady gaga and justin bieber we got 12 year old girls being the group everybody wants to appeal to, and the rebels are long gone, you got a society that bases everything on looks and not alot else .....so when this kid looking like a cross between a young bob dylan and jim morrison turns up doing his rebel with a cause routine........what you think will happen?.....guy will be on t-shirts in 10 years, and thats capitalism and thats america baby!