Does Rolling Stone's Tsarnaev cover glamorize terrorism?

The magazine's rock-star treatment of the accused Boston Marathon bomber sparks outrage

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Rolling Stone is facing an outburst of criticism over its decision to put surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover — a spot normally reserved for rock stars and actors. Outraged observers called the image — showing the 19-year-old Tsarnaev with tousled hair and a dreamy gaze, in a picture he once posted online —"disgusting," arguing that it glorified terrorism and insulted the victims of the deadly April attack.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.