What did you do with my RWHN?

[AFK]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/17/19523421-rolling-stone-boston-bomber-suspect-photo-stirs-online-controversy-cvs-walgreens-drop-the-issue?lite

Magazine sales must have been slumping badly.  I suppose the nut-wits at Rolling Stone think this is "edgy journalism".

Sure, let's make the human sack of shit a rock star.  Fuck dead and maimed and delimbed people.  There are units to move!

[Doktor Howl]

This is hardly new.

This guy killed way more people, and he was on the cover, way back in the day:



But, shit, let's make journalism all about puppies and flowers and unicorn poop. 

[AFK]

False equivalency.

It isn't journalism.  It's fucking sensationalism to move units.  It's jabbing a knife into open wounds.  It's pretty sick.

[Doktor Howl]

False equivalency.

It isn't journalism.  It's fucking sensationalism to move units.  It's jabbing a knife into open wounds.  It's pretty sick.

You don't like it, so it isn't journalism.   

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I think they chose the fuzzy almost cute pic deliberately.

it's all too easy to think of the action that got them infamy than the path that led them there. It's too easy to de-humanise than take a look at the fucked up shit we do. you other someone of that criminal status/ chaos caused and you stop thinking.

Irony of fucking Ironies, the Dropkick Murphys pitched a hissy fit about this...

[Cramulus]

Ah enjoy it while it lasts. Savor that feeling of being annoyed by the cover of something. People are only going to be talking about print magazines for another few years.

You'll be nostalgic about this one day! "Hey remember when blogs were on paper? and people would get tweaked out if they printed something controversial on the cover?"



for scale - rolling stone has 1.4 million copies in circulation and assumes 8 different people read every issue.

buzzfeed has 60 million unique viewers per month.


people are talking about rolling stone for some reason

mission accomplished

[Doktor Howl]

I think they chose the fuzzy almost cute pic deliberately.

it's all too easy to think of the action that got them infamy than the path that led them there. It's too easy to de-humanise than take a look at the fucked up shit we do. you other someone of that criminal status/ chaos caused and you stop thinking.

Irony of fucking Ironies, the Dropkick Murphys pitched a hissy fit about this...

Yep.  The bad guy isn't always the Nazi skinhead or the turbaned fanatic.  Sometimes it's the kid next door.

Pleasant?  No.  The truth sometimes isn't.

[Doktor Howl]

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for scale - rolling stone has 1.4 million copies in circulation and assumes 8 different people read every issue.

buzzfeed has 60 million unique viewers per month.
.

This makes me sad.  I prefer to read in dead tree format.

[AFK]

You can do a story on the asshat sack of shit, but putting that kind of picture on the cover is just unneccesary.  The clear message, wanna be a rock star and get on a magazine but you're a pathetic, cowardly piece of shit?

Blow up kids.

[Doktor Howl]

You can do a story on the asshat sack of shit, but putting that kind of picture on the cover is just unneccesary.  The clear message, wanna be a rock star and get on a magazine but you're a pathetic, cowardly piece of shit?

Blow up kids.

Oh, and we're back to doin' it for the children.  I had hoped for something different.  I'm dumb that way, sometimes.

The whole POINT was to show him as the kid next door.

[Doktor Howl]

Wannabe a rock star?  Get elected president and blow up Cambodia!

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I think they chose the fuzzy almost cute pic deliberately.

it's all too easy to think of the action that got them infamy than the path that led them there. It's too easy to de-humanise than take a look at the fucked up shit we do. you other someone of that criminal status/ chaos caused and you stop thinking.

Irony of fucking Ironies, the Dropkick Murphys pitched a hissy fit about this...

Yep.  The bad guy isn't always the Nazi skinhead or the turbaned fanatic.  Sometimes it's the kid next door.

Pleasant?  No.  The truth sometimes isn't.

Indeed.

the othering process also removes any social analyses of the world around that kid. the world that includes us.

[Doktor Howl]

Because, as we all know, Rolling Stone has never covered anything other than rock stars.  Ever.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

You can do a story on the asshat sack of shit, but putting that kind of picture on the cover is just unneccesary.  The clear message, wanna be a rock star and get on a magazine but you're a pathetic, cowardly piece of shit?

Blow up kids.

you really think kids are fucking empathy devoid idiots?

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Because, as we all know, Rolling Stone has never covered anything other than rock stars.  Ever.

:coughs: Hunter S Thompson