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I would say this is unbelievable but nothing the media does today surprises me. Especially a crap rag like Rolling Stone.
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I would say this is unbelievable but nothing the media does today surprises me. Especially a crap rag like Rolling Stone.
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High_Binder 12 years ago
Par for the course. Hell, half of the U.S. thinks this guy is a hero...
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egro 12 years ago
An imaginary half?
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RockaG 12 years ago
The Editor-in-Chief must have been out of the office when this trash went to the printing press. Shame on RS.
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bmoy1920 12 years ago
Proud of CVS Pharmacy for refusing to sell this trash. I will cut up every issue I see. This is the biggest slap in the face I've ever seen.
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MarkBlemish 12 years ago
I think RS was looking for controversy, any publicity is good publicity type of thing. I'm all for those who are pulling it from their racks but what do you expect, we've been making "heroes" out of killers forever, dark aesthetics.
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NB73 12 years ago
...Agreed...I'd imagine regardless of the point of the cover: hero, monster, terrorist, killer, rock star, or whatever...it's all about Rolling Stone selling the magazine to make $$$. Any publicity...good or bad...
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DirtDoc 12 years ago
I do not see how putting up a candid picture and calling him a monster is bad. They don't use a mugshot, or one of the pictures of him bloodied after being pulled from the boat, is that what makes it bad?
Or are we not supposed to discuss people who do evil things? Or should we only draw racist caricatures of them like The Week? Draw little evil horns and squinty eyes and pretend that they were born evil and left swastikas carved inside their mothers uterus?
God forbid we treat our enemies as humans. Evil humans, humans to be defeated. But as humans.
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Razorback 12 years ago
Putting terrorists on the cover of Rolling Stone is equating them to rock stars. Given that these types of people (terrorists, mass shooters, serial killers, etc.) often commit their horrendous crimes for glory and attention, it only encourages others to follow in their footsteps. This is now propaganda for those individuals. Putting a photo of the victims and their families on the cover would have been far more appropriate.
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DirtDoc 12 years ago
Okay I see that point.
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jeffpic 12 years ago
Stopped reading RS when they moved from rock to Brittany Spears. These guys are a bunch of d-bags looking for attention. They're not dedicated to serious topics like they are saying in their pre-emptive backpedalling, they are interested in sensationalist BS like Jersey shore stars getting arrested or whatever. It's MTV in print.
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