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Rolling Stones and the Boston Bomber cover.

Red_Dave said:
So they should have choosen an unphotogenic photo just to prove he's a bad person?
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A more neutral one would have certainly been less controversal. Buyt that is rather iorrelevent to your argument above, which asserted a rather passive role in the design of their own cover ...


maybe photoshop in a scar or two?
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dude, you're acting as if this is the only picture they had access to and they had no input into the design of their own cover.


Clearly Disney has a lot to answer for...
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doesn't really effect me much, tbh.
 
Dr. Chuckles said:
A more neutral one would have certainly been less controversal. Buyt that is rather iorrelevent to your argument above, which asserted a rather passive role in the design of their own cover ...
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How is it not neutral? the title calls him a 'Monster' so its clearly not that that bothers you so it must be the photo. Clearly they could have chosen another but why would they need to? If anything there only mistake was to assume that their readership were not idiots and wouldn't associate a good photo with glorification. There's plenty of bad pictures of Hitler around but you won't see them on biographies.
 
Red_Dave said:
How is it not neutral? the title calls him a 'Monster' so its clearly not that that bothers you so it must be the photo. Clearly they could have chosen another but why would they need to? If anything there only mistake was to assume that their readership were not idiots and wouldn't associate a good photo with glorification. ***There's plenty of bad pictures of Hitler around but you won't see them on biographies***.
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Yeah, and those pictures also don't look like something from Tiger Beat, either. But if you want to stake out the position that all photos exist on some neutral aesthetic and emotional level I'm not going to argue with you about it. Being 1) the underlying issue with such a notion is rather self evident and 2) it's an issue I'm really not that concerned about
 
I don't understand why people are so annoyed - he was a good kid as a teenager and did fall into a bad crowd. People don't grow up to be terrorists. They're made into terrorists. His parents did fail him. They raised him in a manner where he basically forgot the basic boundaries between right & wrong.
 
Hatuey said:
I don't understand why people are so annoyed - he was a good kid as a teenager and did fall into a bad crowd. People don't grow up to be terrorists. They're made into terrorists. His parents did fail him. They raised him in a manner where he basically forgot the basic boundaries between right & wrong.
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it seems mainly an editorial device to set up the article, but I doubt the controversy factor was totally overlooked. Which strikes me as a bit insensitive to the victims, but so what. The most I'll do is continue not buying rolling stone and limiting limiting my reading to the occasional matt Talibi (sp) article
 
SMTA said:
Compared to what, British tabloids?

From what I have seen, the entirety of the UK feeds of their disgusting tabloids.

You should not be throwing stones while living in that glass house.

Send one American seedy rock star to Britain, and the UK tabloid reporters go into a feeding frenzy.

Then the public feed like sharks buying the garbage.
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Who is defending British tabloids? Grow up.

p.s my wife is from Boston and her family were present at the marathon.
 
Red_Dave said:
So they should have choosen an unphotogenic photo just to prove he's a bad person? maybe photoshop in a scar or two? Clearly Disney has a lot to answer for, people still expect the media to infantalize them as much as possible.

Also how is this different from all the films/books/documentaries/Broadway musicals about Hitler?
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Maybe they could of used the picture of him standing next to the kid he ended up killing
 
Hatuey said:
I don't understand why people are so annoyed - he was a good kid as a teenager and did fall into a bad crowd. People don't grow up to be terrorists. They're made into terrorists. His parents did fail him. They raised him in a manner where he basically forgot the basic boundaries between right & wrong.
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I don't care what he used to be,he is now a mass murderer.

BS blaming his parents.

He was weal-willed, and knew damn well what he was doing was wrong.

He made the decision, he had free will, and he willingly participated in mass murder.

He forgot nothing - he made a conscious effort to ignore the difference between right and wrong.

He needs to die for what he did.

How dare you defend his heinous actions.
 
SMTA said:
I don't care what he used to be,he is now a mass murderer.
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Good, that's not what the article is entirely about though.

BS blaming his parents.
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Nobody is blaming his parents for what he did, that's a strawman argument. His parents did however fail at being good parents. :shrug:

He was weal-willed, and knew damn well what he was doing was wrong.

He made the decision, he had free will, and he willingly participated in mass murder.

He forgot nothing - he made a conscious effort to ignore the difference between right and wrong.

He needs to die for what he did.

How dare you defend his heinous actions.
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You're one strawman after another. Save the feigned outrage for somebody who isn't smarter than you.
 
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