SOME THINGS ARE MORE COMPLICATED
Courtesy of Rolling Stone & Huffington Post
Mainstream and social media are afire with comment about Rolling Stone putting the alleged Boston Marathon bomber on the cover.
"Making him a star" some cluck. Phooey! As more than one respondent said, it's good journalism to probe as the sub title says, "How a popular, promising student was failed by his friends, family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster." I want to know and more than a few of my friends have asked the same thing, in some wonderment.
And to those cluckers and tsk tskkers, the same photo has played front and center in a lot of other media since April.
I love Twitter and it's almost instant presentation of events. As I've written, it's like the new version of the old wire machines that filled the radio and TV newsrooms of my youth-a constant stream. But, where the AP and UPI and Reuters wires were detailed and in depth, social media is brief and in the case of the Rolling Stone cover, the trend is fueled by personal comment, often snarky and usually always too brief on which to base logic or argument.
And Rolling Stone has published a few other "controversial" covers.
Courtesy of Rolling Stone & Huffington Post
In fact the Huff Post found a few other historic covers that generated talk, and sales!
Courtesy of New Yorker and Huffington Post
Courtesy of New Yorker and Huffington Post
Courtesy of Huffington Post and Texas Monthly
Courtesy of Esquire and Huffington Post
THE WORLD CHANGED ON THIS DAY
Sunny southern California was the site in 1955 when Walt Disney gained a kind of immortality, at least in part.
DISNEYLAND opened on this day back then. The Disneyland legacy is profound, more than just the amusement and wonder of the parks and entertainment complex. A virtual science of crowd management, logistics, marketing, concept development and much more has followed. You know there is something magic about being the happiest place on earth. Still works.
ANOTHER HAPPY PLACE
See you down the trail.
I agree with you on the Rolling Stone cover. Good marketing.
ReplyDelete58 years ago tomorrow, SWMBO was visiting Disneyland - the second day it was open.
On the cover of Rolling Stone's biggest issue ever? Charles Manson.
ReplyDeleteOne of Time's biggest? Timothy McVey.
I'm way more interested in discussion the "bubble gum pop wimpification" of Rolling Stone than any perceived outrage on the part of this last cover.
ReplyDeleteI was giving a gift subscription to Rolling Stone about a year ago and had to quit handling the magazine as I got four or five cavities just turning the pages of the sugary, pre-teen pap it ballyhooed.
I'm all for freedom of the press but I do believe the media makes these guys into celebrities. Right now girls are Tweeting about how sexy this guy is. Is that what we want to promote? Yes, tell his story but you don't need to glamorize him on the cover.
ReplyDeleteThanks for more great pictures of Yosemite. Maybe one day our Congress will come together and appropriate money so they can complete the missing half of Half Dome.
RS has been rendered irrelevant for some years now - I think since the Dr. Hook issue. Now that freak was some kinda sexy. Moton1
ReplyDeleteThanks for the cover comparisons. Glad that RS is still stirring things. Thanks to Walt Disney for changing our culture to appreciate creativity
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