This isn’t going over so well.
When I was a teenager, I used to wait anxiously for my issue of Tiger Beat to arrive (yes, I’m ashamed to admit that). I think some folks have it right – this Rolling Stone cover is more like Tiger Beat with a mix of Newsweek desperation.
Who knew Rolling Stone was the magazine for dreamboat terrorist cover boys? Should rename it Tamil Tiger Beat.
— Mo Rocca (@MoRocca) July 17, 2013
Last wk I wrote about Tiger Beat Terrorist Syndrome. This wk, Rolling Stone editor joins the Ja-harem. http://t.co/wlcJSdI4us
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) July 16, 2013
Way to go Rolling Stone for your suspected terrorist cover-I wonder if you would've made the same call if your family had been bomb victims?
— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) July 17, 2013
https://twitter.com/MichaelEHayden/status/357494372608135168
An Outrageous and Totally Unacceptable Rolling Stone Cover — http://t.co/nU79qkezSL
— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) July 17, 2013
Jim Geraghty nails it.
The Rolling Stone cover has a real late-Newsweek, hoping-controversy-drives-newsstand-sales vibe.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) July 17, 2013
Apparently there were supposed to be some new revelations in the cover story. If so, they ruined it with the actual cover.
At least the #FreeJahar hashtag will be interesting to read.
UPDATE 7/17 at 3:00 pm ET: Rolling Stone editors have included the following statement above the full article.
Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, and our thoughts are always with them and their families. The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone’s long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day. The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens. –THE EDITORS
In addition, CVS and Tedeschi Food Shops have each published statements that they have decided not to sell the issue in their stores.
Add Walgreens to that list.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. Walgreens will not be selling this issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
— Walgreens (@Walgreens) July 17, 2013
Boston Mayor Tom Menino also penned a stern letter to Jann Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone.
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I’m from Massachusetts and keep in touch with some high school classmates via Fb. Most of the time they are li-ber-al and can be quite ugly about it. On this occasion they are cancelling subscriptions and even subscriptions to other magazines by same company. When you’ve angered Massachusetts liberals…
That’s it.
You have to cut off their cross subsidization.
“cross subsidization – A strategy where support for a product comes from the profits generated by another product.”
Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/cross-subsidization.html#ixzz2ZLtRZ9HH
Remember when RS had that dreamy looking photo of Tim McVeigh (he blew up little children too) on the cover?
No, didn’t think so.
Well, it wasn’t as ‘dreamy’ as this one but the RS cover with Charles Manson is probably the most comparable cover.
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/music/2004/galleries/1970-rolling-stone-covers/rs61-charles-manson-97/500×595/22516_lg.jpg
RS will make up for it in the next issue by putting a pic of Trayvon Martin on the cover. That should get rave reviews from the left. They do have odd standards.
So in other words, “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful?”
Rolling Stone’s prime demo (youth, generally) increasingly doesn’t read dead tree magazines. As circulation goes down, so does ad revenue. Few paper-based mags and rags are successfully making the jump to full online and pay walls are generally detested. Paper magazines and newspapers are dying on the vine financially.
Expect all dead tree based publications to make these silly attempts at sales-by-ginning-up-outrage.
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