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Dick Polman takes a look at the fuss over Rolling Stone’s “Boston Bomber” cover.

Anyone who pays the least attention to Rolling Stone knows that it long ago branched out from covering “the rock scene’ (if, indeed, there is such a thing any more) to covering economic and social issues.

Anyone who read it from the beginning (and that’s when I used to read it) also knows that it’s never been a “fanzine.”

His reaction is pretty much the same as mine: this is a cavalcade of stupid, a tempest over non-existent tea in a broken tea party pot. A nugget:

Those who object to the Rolling Stone cover seem not to realize that the exact same photo dominated the front page of The New York Times on May 5 – yet there was no mass outcry about “glorifying” the kid, and nobody called for a boycott of that day’s paper. The current critics would probably say, “Yeah, well, that was different. The Times reports the news. Rolling Stone is a music magazine.” Wrong. Rolling Stone has featured long-form journalism since the 1970s, and the Tsarnaev article is the product of several months’ in-depth reporting.

And that’s not even the best nugget. Follow the link for more.

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