{"id":2756,"date":"2013-07-18T00:33:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2013-07-18T00:33:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T00:33:33","slug":"terrorist-soils-magazine-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"Terror suspect soils magazine cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m going to line up behind Boston Mayor Thomas Menino\u2019s description of the latest Rolling Stone magazine cover.<\/p>\n<p>He calls it a \u201cdisgrace.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m with you, Mr. Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone put the face of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing that terrorized the nation, not to mention the city where the event took place.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/07\/17\/poll-should-rolling-stone-have-put-tsarnaev-on-its-cover\/\" href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/07\/17\/poll-should-rolling-stone-have-put-tsarnaev-on-its-cover\/\">http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/07\/17\/poll-should-rolling-stone-have-put-tsarnaev-on-its-cover\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s a bizarre decision. The magazine usually features rock stars or other cultural icons. Tsarnaev, though, is a class by himself. He\u2019s a suspected terrorist who\u2019s alleged action killed three people and injured more than 100 others, some of them grievously.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone editors defend the cover, saying the magazine always has honored the principles of good journalism. <\/p>\n<p>The Boston Marathon bombing cut deeply into the nation\u2019s emotional psyche. Surely the magazine editors knew what the reaction would be when they plastered Tsarnaev\u2019s face on the cover of the magazine, but they chose to do it anyway. My sense is that Rolling Stone is motivated more by provocation than solid journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone editors wanted to provoke a visceral reaction and they have succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>Several retailers, including some that do business in Amarillo, have said they won\u2019t sell the magazine with Tsarnaev\u2019s picture on the cover. I concur with that decision.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m wondering how the magazine could have told the story without the visible image. Here\u2019s a thought: a few words of text across the top of the cover page that say something like: \u201cBoston Marathan bombing suspect \u2013 from big man on campus to alleged terrorist. Turn to Page 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t <em>that<\/em> have done the job?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to line up behind Boston Mayor Thomas Menino\u2019s description of the latest Rolling Stone magazine cover. He calls it a \u201cdisgrace.\u201d I\u2019m with you, Mr. Mayor. Rolling Stone put the face of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing that terrorized the nation, not to mention the city &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terror suspect soils magazine cover<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}