What’s so cool about Rolling Stone?

There's one thing I don't get about the furore over Rolling Stone's cover photo of the Boston bomber, Dzokhar Tsarnaev. I get why people are furious at the idea the magazine might glamourise a man who killed and maimed the innocent. I get that it's a disgrace to make some one who casually murdered an eight-year-old boy look like a rock star. But what I don't get is why anyone thinks that photograph makes Tsarnaev look good. There he is, staring out of the magazine in soft focus, hair wild and … [Read more...]