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.
