Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Cover Shot

[mikeyank]

Rolling Stone magazine has found itself in a controversy as many retailers are refusing to distribute the issue with the "Boston Bomber" on the cover in a sexy rock star type photo. As reprehensible as the act committed by him and his brother was, during the time he was on the loose, I must admit that every time they showed his picture either on TV or in the newspaper, it caught my eye, and I had to tell myself not to be "into" this guy as he killed and maimed innocent people. Now apparently Rolling Stone is trying to cash in on his good looks with this cover story.

The kid is good looking but definitely deserves a very harsh punishment, where if he is not to be executed, that he never walks the earth as a free man again.

 

[keylow365]

He has a fan club already of teenage girls who think he is too cute to have done it. I don't see the fuss over the rolling stone cover the article was good and did not paint him as a saint.

 

[joninliverton]

By posting his pic on here you are just amplifying what Rolling Stone are doing !

 

[tarheelzrule4]

What is the big deal of posting his pic? His face has been flashed all over the news. We live in a country of freedom of the press. A novel idea. One reason we left England...ha

 

[Huh?]

I have never understood what people expect to accomplish by raising stinks about stuff like this. If their intention is to try to put some kind of financial pressure on RollingStone to teach them a lesson, do they not understand that all they are doing is making the issue more of a draw? There will probably be more people buying this issue now than would have.

For better or for worse, there is an issue here that RollingStone is trying to address. The guy is arguably attractive. Many people, both male and female, think so. As was stated earlier, some people are saying he is innocent simply because he is attractive. Ted Bundy was also considered attractive--it was part of the reason he was so successful as a serial killer. RollingStone stated that they wanted people to understand that even attractive people can become monsters. Perhaps a side-by-side "Jekyll and Hyde" photographic approach would have made the point clearer, but I don't see the problem with RollingStone using this picture. They aren't trying to glamourize him--that has already been done in the minds of people who are so enamored with his attractiveness that they can't be objective about what he has done.

 

[mikeyank]

We had a similar situation with Robert Chambers, the so called "Preppy Killer" who killed Jeniffer Levin in Central Park, during "rough sex". He too was a pretty boy who developed legions of fans who wanted to see him found not guilty. Some women and I guess men too find a handsome young killer to be a bad boy image that turns them on, when if fact their good looks only disguise their sick and ugly minds.

And going back to the days of the wild west, "Billy the Kid" was also considered a desireable young man who was also a killer.

 

[KellyG]

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