It looks like it will be an interesting story. I can't imagine why people are getting so worked up about this.

Tsarnaev makes cover of Rolling Stone, draws outrage, boycotts

http://www.boston.com/news/source/2013/07/marathon_bombing_suspect_tsarnaev_makes_cover_of_rolling_sto.html

is that the way you see it?

I can totally see how this might encourage unstable little wanna be's.

Fucking stupid shit.

There is a long and valid argument about media coverage in these types of situations...that the 24x7 attention ensures these types go out in a blaze of glory.

Putting him on the cover of Rolling Stone in a Jim Morrisonesque pose takes this to a whole new level.

Wonder what his victims think.

Read the God Damn words underneath the picture and the picture fits perfect.

Just another stupid outrage with the stupid American Morans.

No wonder we can't have any reasonable debate in this country. We can't even have it here.

I'll consider myself shut down. Thanks ever. Later.

But I see this whole controversy as a result of people shutting down their brains. I hears a bit of the Mike Huckabee show, and he basically said "who cares" about the ARTICLE about the bomber and compared the cover to "reading Playboy for the articles".

You're right, they haven't.

personally i think charlie looks pretty good in this photo:

(sarcasm alert)

dang.

grow a pair.

you might be singing a different tune.

Hopefully, you'll never have the chance to find out.

too bad, so sad.

You...not so much.

the one thing has nothing to do with the other.

you're spewing frothy emotional responses to a non issue.

this isn't new.

His throngs of adoring teenage fans would go apeshit.

if you have the hots for the guy, it's ok.

tons of women adored ted bundy.

NOTHING IS NEW.

just get over it.

You're absolutely right. No need to discuss or explore anyone else's viewpoints.

This place had become a farce. And rude. God, I shudder to think how some of you interact in 3D.

tells someone who got shot to shit to "Grow a Pair". Remarkably dickish, even for an internet message board.

fuck the police.

How long will be before the news media comes out with this ?

BREAKING NEWS ----SLOW NEWS DAY FORCES STUPID NEWS STORIES .

i keep telling people: IT'S THE STUPID, STUPID.

(I'm not saying you are stupid, btw).

Guess he didn't have a great cover for his US WEEKLY gossip magazine, so he wanted to grab some free publicity by publishing a cover he knew wouldn't go over well in some quarters and would create a news story--poke the bereaved, rub salt in the wounds of the suffering, and cause people to comment about how much or how little they care that the feelings of others are affected.

I agree with Lawrence O'Donnell on this issue:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/lawrence-odonnell-rolling-stone_n_3614483.html

almost innocent looking, that some people are upset?

I don't understand the upset, try as I might to be in those shoes in Boston that day - I can't see a photo on a cover of a magazine being something to get upset about considering that day overall.

That's the only thing I can think of why - the pic isn't of an ugly, mean looking creature from hell and this confuses people.

Q: "Have you read the story?"

A: "I'm more concerned about the picture."

Rubbed my eyes, shook my head, but there it was, plain as day.

Long trend.

It is an American core value. We love the superficial, we hate real substance of any kind.

in spite of the article content.

Hard to see the cover as sensationalized... rather the opposite. It is low-key for effect.

was hanging out with his friends, smoking dope, talking about rap music and girls - not just months before the Boston Marathon - but just a day or two before the Boston Marathon. Almost everyone who knew him described him as really, really nice kid. But in fact he did go out and commit a heinous crime. The way Rolling Stone displayed his picture on their front page - drives that message home. It is a mind boggling story.