Opinion: Rolling Stone Boston Cover ‘Can’t Hurt Us’

Thursday, 18 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

The Boston Globe’s Yvonne Abraham says she’s tried to summon up outrage over Rolling Stone’s decision to put the Boston Marathon bombing suspect on its iconic front cover. Several stores have refused to sell the issue and people have called the decision one that glorifies terrorism. (They’ve also taken issue with the photo itself, which is a “selfie” that has already appeared virtually everywhere.) But Abraham says while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might look like the typical 19-year-old “handsome stoner,” the magazine’s headline—“THE BOMBER: How a Popular, Promising Student Was Failed by his Family, Fell Into Radical Islam and Became a Monster.”—does something newspapers and magazines rarely do: it convicts him.

SOURCE: Boston Globe