Rolling Stone Glamorizing a Terrorist?

Seeing the picture of Tsarnaev on the front page of a Rolling Stones magazine definitely brings up some controversy considering you’d see a picture of a celebrity on the front page instead. When the article mentioned that the same picture was used at a New York Times magazine and didn’t receive the same backlash as the Rolling Stone edition, that’s because you expect a news article to use the photos as a means of getting word out to the public about the catastrophe that happened. I guess you can say there is somewhat of a double-standard at play since Rolling Stones is considered to have pictures and interviews of celebrities and if they strayed away from that it would seem out of place. Sort of what happened when they decided to release this issue of a terrorist’s “selfie” and publishing it thinking that it wouldn’t strike their viewers as odd or out of place. And yes they are glamorizing the photo since the editors decided to put the company’s name over Tsarnaev’s hair, making it look like they’re “endorsing him” as the article put it. After looking at the the Rolling Stone’s “Marilyn Manson” 1970 issue, the photo strikes me as more of a news article since you only see the picture of Manson with only a few words about him. You don’t see him alongside the headline of a musician or the latest celebrity gossip.