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welcome to the David Pakman show great to have you with us today
I got to five or six emails overnight about the new
upcoming Rolling Stone cover that's going to come out on august third on the
cover of the August 3rd Rolling Stone
as you can see here over my shoulder is going to be
a is a hearts are naive the suspect in the Boston
marathon bombing and everybody who emailed me
asking me to cover this said they found it very
offensive and that it glorifies a criminal a terrorist it was certainly a
suspected terrorist
by putting him on the cover a rolling stone so I thought we would talk about
this the the
I'm first developed talk about the specific pictures some
summer the concerning criticism is that this specific picture Louis
really makes to har seem kind of like a rockstar typeof guy
just the way it's posed in the way it's it looks and that Rolling Stone should
have used a different picture now Justin
in interject some backed into this the New York Times
did run this exact same picture on the front page
back in May the differences the cover of the above Rolling Stone
is much more of inner rock star on actor
or someone who is not in the news for having killed and injured
a whole bunch of people the other side of this would be that
about Charles Manson serial killer Charles Manson
was also on the cover of Rolling Stone I years and years ago I think it was in
the nineteen seventies
June if 1970 so let's take it piece by piece Louis
is having Sohar at all on the front page on the fun the cover of Rolling Stone
is that offensive isn't insult to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing
I don't I don't know if it's an insult the damn
I don't know really if if we should bring them into it I'm sure they
probably don't like it maybe they can understand
why his picture is there but I think this is a bad idea
because I think this basically is an invite to people
like him to say hey book if you commit some heinous act like this you could be
on the cover Rolling Stone it will that's exactly why I am really mixed on
it I think you bring up kind of one side of my two-sided argument
on the one hand I i understand the message it sends
particularly to victims is whole look think about this this guy
didn't do anything good he's not a great actor
he's not a politician who accomplished anything in particular is not a
scientist discovered something great
he killed people he clearly is a guy who who
it has significant issues and we're rewarding him in a way
by putting him on the cover Rolling Stone something that the people who get
onto the cover of Rolling Stone for doing good things
it takes 10-15 sometimes twenty thirty forty years
love their life's work to get to the point where Rolling Stone want to put
them on the cover
this is a really bad signal to send that you can short-cut
your path to getting onto the front page a rolling stone by doing something
really evil
however I have another side to this
which is the reality is although
Rolling Stone made typically are historically put
celebrities and rock stars on the cover the reality is rolling stone
has been doing really good reporting about a lot of different
issues if the content up the article they're writing about the heart
is accurate it is not glorifying what he did
and it isn't a counter investigation that is valuable to the journalistic
a landscape then can we really say that the fact that he's on the cover is
anything more than an indication
up what is in the pages of Rolling Stone I yes
yes i i just think it is then in poor taste and like you said there was
another good point that it kinda
diminishes did the careers and accomplishments if other people that
have been on the cover because what he did
really anyone can do unfortunately
so i i think thats if they wanted to you
to highlight this on their cover it should have been something else it
should have been a picture
that represents Boston somehow it shouldn't be his face
alright that's lewis's thought what is the audience thought please email us
leave us a voicemail 2192 David P what do you think about this I predict we're
gonna have a varied reactions to this