I don’t believe that Rolling Stone Magazine try to glorify the bomber Tsarnaev. To have his selfie published on the cover of the magazine would catch the eyes of the viewers but like what Fred Ritchin said “cropped version of Sean Murphy’s photograph of a bloodied young man emerging from a boat with a sniper’s red dot on his forehead, that too might have attracted enormous criticism for glamorizing Tsarnaev”. From that I would say that the photograph itself wasn’t the glamorzing part but it is what you put it on. If it was just a small image on the side then it wouldn’t be as glamorizing. People are angry because it was on the cover of the magazine. I think any picture related to the suspect of the attack would envoke the viewers. I myself don’t consider this as glamorizing but marketing.
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