'Rolling Stone' defends Tsarnaev cover

it wouldn't have bothered me if they hadn't tried to use soft lighting and other effects to make him look like a young sexy pop star...

how many teens are gonna fall in love with him based on the cover and never bother to even read what he did?

it's just sad really

lol, Rolling Stone did not shoot the picture. It was a "selfie" that has been used by other media outlets.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Dzhokhar+Tsarnaev&source=lnms&tbm=isch

There aren't really a ton of choices to pick from.

thank you...i just googled him...and i found a lot of different normal images of his that they could have used....

so it validates my point....selfie or not...they picked the most handsome picture with the best lighting effects

[thank you...i just googled him...and i found a lot of different normal images of his that they could have used....

so it validates my point....selfie or not...they picked the most handsome picture with the best lighting effects

Which one would you have chosen?

I only looked at the first full page, but the rest are all pretty much too light, too dark, composed oddly or out of focus.

Is this the best available picture to be used for a cover image? IMO, probably.

In my opinion if journalistic integrity was at all a concern they would have avoided the glamorous pretty boy photo on the cover.



http://thatswhatshesaidboston.com/2013/07/dear-rolling-stone/

This person says it better than me to be honest.

Mayor Menino's reply to the publisher http://bostonherald.com/sites/default/files/media/2013/07/17/Menino_RollingStone.pdf

Meh. Using it to gain political capital is as bad as putting him on the cover to start with.

If they really wanted him to look sexy they woulda had him do the janet jackson pose. in all seriousness though, the editors and publishers of Rolling Stone magazine should be forced to walk down the streets of Boston holding up the issue.

people still rely on Rolling Stone to tell them what is good?

If they really wanted him to look sexy they woulda had him do the janet jackson pose. in all seriousness though, the editors and publishers of Rolling Stone magazine should be forced to walk down the streets of Boston holding up the issue.

^^^LMFAO^^ Love this

Mayor Menino's reply to the publisher http://bostonherald.com/sites/default/files/media/2013/07/17/Menino_RollingStone.pdf

Meh. Using it to gain political capital is as bad as putting him on the cover to start with.

He's retiring. There's no political gain for him from this

Politicians don't retire. They die.

I'd watch for a Senate campaign or something.

Now I want to read the article...

But I don't read magazines...

I really see this as much ado about nothing... really. So there is a pretty picture of him on the cover of a popular magazine.. so what? It's just to get people to talk about the guy... or have some self-righteous indignation over it. People get worked up over the smallest things.

Though I really am curious as to what is in the article now... mostly so I can see why people feathers are in a fluff and say "did you even READ the article?"

the controversy isnt about the article, it's about the stupid cover. Usually its a musician on the cover and if not a musician someone in the entertainment industry--- they are treating him like a rock god. classless.

A quick google search would show you that's not true. There have been many non "entertainers" on the cover from politicians, social activists & even terrible people.

I think whomever decided he would be on the cover should be FIRED!

Agreed!

The cover was tacky however we all played into what I am guessing was the whole point of the cover: Media attention. Because of the outrage over the cover the magazine and the terrorist are getting the attention that putting him there was designed to get. If I had not heard about it on the news I never would have known about it and I am sure it is the same with everyone else. As it stands because of the coverage EVERYONE now knows about it, is talking about it (case in point here) and posting pictures about it. Regardless of the people who say they are banning the magazine and what not I am sure that they got decent sales off of this because of the publicity.

It was a stunt pure and simple and we played into it exactly in the way they intended.

I think that they have the right to run a cover pic any way they choose...and I fully hope the *kitten*-storm completely blows up in their faces. It seems to me a desperate attempt to remain important in todays society...PR by any means necessary

I literally don't understand what people are upset about.

Tempest in a teapot.

I think that the cover was created in an attractive way to make a statement. This was once a normal kid. He was well liked by a lot of people. So how did he turn out to be somebody who would do something so monstrous?

Yes, he should be tried to the fullest extent of the law. No, he should not be put up on a pedestal.

But I think that rather than just demonizing and hating this person, it is more productive to ask ourselves how such a change could happen to him. And we have to humanize him in order to do that. Only when we know the why will we be able to attempt to prevent people from doing such things.

The cover shows him as human and the article digs into the why. RS knew people would be offended, but those of us open-minded enough to want to know who this kid is and what may have caused him to change might read it. The others never would have anyway.