By Arden Dier
Further proof that a good furor can gin up business: Despite a boycott that saw some retailers yank the issue from shelves, Rolling Stone’s “Boston Bomber” cover featuring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a hit on newsstands, selling twice as many issues as usual, Ad Week reports. The mag unloaded 13,232… …read more
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By Geri Gourley, Women’s eNews
When the beguiling self-portrait of 19-year-old Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev surfaced in late April, a movement was born. Free Jahar sites erupted on social media proclaiming his innocence, with thousands of young followers believing he had been wrongly accused or that his rights had been violated. Some posted that he was too cute to be guilty.
The heated controversy over the use of the very same photo on the latest cover of Rolling Stone magazine, and subsequent tweets by the Free Jahar camp, prompted the folks at Twitchy.com to blast them as “terror groupies” who are “breathless and lovesick.”
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I swore I wasn’t going to weigh in on this topic. But longtime online marketing expert Barbara Ling gave me several good reasons to reconsider (one of them being that she offered me an image that didn’t further perpetuate the suspect’s controversial face.) I’ve known Barbara since the days I used to pitch her as a press authority on Internet recruiting back in the days my agency represented FlipDog (later acquired by Monster.com). She’s a 17-year “soloprenuer” who, in addition to Internet recruiting, specializes in what she refers to as “in-the-trenches” online marketing via social media. A mother of four, she focuses on demystifying social media for emerging businesses. Barbara and I share a love of marketing and of entrepreneurs. We have no business relationship together, but as time progresses, perhaps that will change. Barbara pointed out to me that in the fallout over the July 17 Rolling Stone Magazine that unless you’ve been living under a stone, you realize features a photo of the Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsamaev. The consumer world reacted, primarily with outrage. CVS and Walgreens both refused the carry the issue, as Forbes’ Matthew Herper reported last week. But here’s the surprise Barbara brought to my attention: Within 24 hours, a Facebook site emerged with the headline “Boycott Rolling Stone Magazine For Their Latest Cover.” The message on the page: “Rolling Stone announced its new cover today, featuring the Boston Bomber. This is unacceptable and a slap in the face for those he killed and maimed.” The site garnered more than 100,000 “Likes” in its first 24 hours. That’s the equivalent of 4169 “likes” an hour, 69 “Likes” a minute and a “like” every 6/7 of a second. So what’s even bigger about this? It’s the very structure of Facebook sharing that makes such a rabid and viral uprising possible and actually fuels its growth. When a Facebook user “Likes” a page, the “Like” generally shows up (unless you’ve active prohibited it) in that individual’s feed, allowing everyone in his or her network to see it as well. Fueling the viral mania fire even further, many media outlets and Facebook users also “hashtagged” their posts with the cryptic message of #Boycott and #RollingStone, helping to spur even more sharing via Facebook’s new Open Graph Search. This phenomena results in more users and more Facebook viewers being polarized to one side or the other. Grass roots Facebook campaigns are nothing new. In May, Women, Action and the Media was able to persuade advertisers to pull their ads in protest of “rape joke” pages on Facebook. In the face of the mountain of infuriated users, Facebook re-thought its position and the pages came down. Once a controversial passion has been ignited on Facebook to this extent it becomes virtually unstoppable, Barbara says, but here is the powerful takeaway she urges small business to note: The Facebook community can make or break a brand’s appeal. Therefore, businesses must be highly mindful to ensure their social media interactions increase, …read more
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Centuries of British nobility has turned the corner for the worse. In spite of the British Coalition for Marriage having seven times as many supporters as the conservative party, David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II are proudly announcing the right for gays to marry in England. The gays and the liberals are ecstatic, but the rank and file across the island nation is repulsed and sickened.
Sir Gerald Howarth, a former government minister, said Britain had no right to re-define marriage; and he said it was an “absolute parliamentary disgrace.”
Nobility and disgrace is a perfect non-sequitur on display in the parliament and the apostate Church of England (Anglican). This announcement brings home, in full clarity, the meaning of the last day’s prophetic warnings of the Bible.
The warning of scripture is that, because the nations choose the prurient, the perverted, and all that opposes the commandments of God, they will be given over to reprobation to prepare them for their own judgment and the last day’s tumults and dark days. To use the most fundamental language of biblical theology – it is Satanic, and it will bring judgment.
Britain’s ignominiousness has been outshined only by America’s contumaciousness.
At about the same time the queen announced her favor for the gays, Rolling Stone magazine published the picture of Boston bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in full color with dazzling air brushed quality on the cover of their latest edition. Famed musician Ted Nugent, who made the cover of RS himself in 1979, said RS produces mostly dope-inspired leftist tripe, and he blasted the magazine for its cover.
Nugent said, “It is important the young readers of RS know how a fellow dope smoker lost his mind and doped his way into the evil, brain-dead Islamist terrorism and the horror he wreaked on innocent Americans.”
Rolling Stone once adorned their cover with a picture of Charles Manson; we can only imagine that they will be perfectly willing to publish the face of the antichrist, when as prophecy promises, he arrives to turn the world completely on its ear.
Those who still trust their bibles know that Satan has many faces, and his doctrine and message have many modern faces and voices.
This writer, along with a myriad of others, is willing to risk being labeled just another bible thumping, right wing voice decrying the world’s plunge into everything evil to declare that we are allowing all that is nascent to lead us into the ancient prophecies of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and the judgment of nations.
From Christian sites on the backwaters of the internet to the voices of our best known preachers and prophets, the warnings are faithfully forwarded to a lost and dying world. The advice is simple, but profoundly important; take heed.
The Apostle Peter charged all believers to ‘take heed,’ but especially as we see the last days approaching. Peter emphatically warned that ‘prophecy’ was the key that alone could keep us from failing as these dreadful times unfold. To wit:
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The “Blurred Lines” Video Was . . . an Homage to Vogue? The Robin Thicke and Pharrell song “Blurred Lines” is catchy, but it’s the target of a heated debate over its antiwoman nature. Pharrell is speaking out, telling Rolling Stone that he would never objectify women and that, in fact, “we were trying to make a moving image of a page in Vogue.” Ah, the good ol’ Vogue excuse.
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Add the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and its host community to those upset at Rolling Stone magazine’s cover story on the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
Staff and students are upset at the magazine’s portrayal of the university as a “middling school” with “an utter lack of character.”
Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) was a student at UMass-Dartmouth.
Chancellor Divina Grossman tells The Standard-Times (http://bit.ly/13SFKG3 ) in a statement that the magazine sensationalized the bad and disparaged the good. She says it’s obvious the writer did not spend much time in the area.
The article also says the town of Dartmouth is “a working-class community with virtually nothing to boast of except for a rather sad mall and a striking number of fast-food joints.”
Selectman John George Jr. called the description “ridiculous.”
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Information from: The (New Bedford, Mass.) Standard-Times, http://www.southcoasttoday.com
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A Massachusetts State Police photographer who released stark photos to a local magazine of the capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly has been relieved of duty.
Boston Magazine reported that Police Sgt. Sean Murphy was relieved of duty Thursday after he gave the magazine photos of Tsarnaev in response to a controversial image on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
When asked by The Associated Press about Murphy’s job status, Procopio said in an email: “All I can say is that he is subject to an internal investigation.”
The photos show a downcast, disheveled Tsarnaev with the red dot of a sniper’s rifle laser sight boring into his forehead. They were taken when Tsarnaev was captured April 19, bleeding and hiding in a dry-docked boat in a Watertown backyard.
Murphy said in a statement to Boston Magazine that Tsarnaev is evil and that his photos show the “real Boston bomber, not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.”
The April 15 bombing killed three people and injured more than 260. Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier was allegedly killed April 18 by Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, who died following a shootout with police later that evening.
State police spokesman David Procopio said in a statement Thursday that the agency did not authorize the release of the photos to Boston Magazine and will not release them to other media. “The State Police will have no further comment on this matter tonight,” he added.
Massachusetts State Police said late Thursday that an internal investigation will be conducted into the matter. Boston Magazine editor John Wolfson, who wrote the story accompanied by Murphy’s photos, later tweeted and reported on the magazine website that Murphy was “relieved of duty” and had a hearing next week.
Murphy, who did not return a message from the AP, said in his statement to Boston Magazine that Rolling Stone’s cover photo, a softly-lit image of a brooding Tsarnaev, insults officers killed in the line of duty, their colleagues and their families by glamorizing the “face of terror.”
“It also could be an incentive to those who may be unstable to do something to get their face on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine,” he said.
Rolling Stone said the cover story on Tsarnaev was part of its “long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day.”
Boston Magazine printed more than a dozen photos from the day Tsarnaev was captured, including images of police during the manhunt and Tsarnaev as he was captured and taken away by ambulance.
Three images showed Tsarnaev as he emerged from the boat, head bowed, with red smudges and streaks on his clothing and the boat.
Two images showed the red dot of the laser sight in the middle of his forehead and just above his left eye. The other showed the dot on the top of his head as he buries his face in his arms.
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By Matt Cantor
A Massachusetts state policeman was furious over a Rolling Stone cover he saw as “glamorizing the face of terror”—so he released some Dzhokhar Tsarnaev photos of his own. The images, handed to Boston Magazine , offer an up-close look at Tsarnaev’s capture: In one, he stands covered in blood, apparently… …read more
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At least five retailers with deep New England ties will not sell the Rolling Stone magazine featuring an unsmiling, scruffy Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover.
The picture, which accompanies a story titled “Jahar’s World,” shows the 19-year-old accused murderer with his long, curly hair tousled, reminiscent of the magazine’s iconic shots of rock ‘n’ roll royalty like The Doors’ Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan.
The issue, which hits newsstands Friday, depicts Tsarnaev above a boldface headline, “The Bomber.” The story, which features interviews from childhood friends, teachers and law enforcement agents, promises to reveal how a “popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster.”
Multiple retailers, including CVS and Walgreens, have decided not to carry the issue in their stores.
“CVS/pharmacy has decided not to sell the current issue of Rolling Stone featuring a cover photo of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect,” the Rhode Island-based pharmacy chain said in a statement. “As a company with deep roots in New England and a strong presence in Boston, we believe this is the right decision out of respect for the victims of the attack and their loved ones.”
Other retailers who have said they will not carry the issue include Walgreens, Rite Aid, Stop & Shop, the grocery chain the Roche Bros and Tedeschi Food Shops, a Massachusetts-based convenience store chain.
Other critics of the cover, including Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, struck fast, accusing the magazine of offering Tsarnaev “celebrity treatment” and calling the cover “ill-conceived, at best in a letter written by Menino to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner.
“The survivors of the Boston attacks deserve Rolling Stone cover stories, though I no longer feel that Rolling Stone deserves them,” the letter concluded.
Rolling Stone, for its part, issued a statement Wednesday saying the story was part of its “long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful” coverage of the most important current political and cultural issues.
“The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens,” the statement said.
Rolling Stone did not address whether the photo was edited or filtered in any way in a brief statement offering condolences to bombing survivors and the loved ones of the dead.
In a blog posting late Tuesday, Rolling Stone detailed “five revelations” in the story by contributing editor Janet Reitman, including Tsarnaev’s increasing devotion to Islam while still in high school, as well as his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s possible mental illness, which the boys’ mother decided would be better treated by Islam than by a psychiatrist.
“Around 2008, Jahar’s older brother Tamerlan confided to his mother that he felt like ‘two people’ were inside him,” the blog posting reads. “She confided this to a close friend who felt he might need a psychiatrist, but Zubeidat believed that religion would be the …read more
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By John Johnson
Chances are you’ve heard about the decision by Rolling Stone to put Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover . Critics have been in a rage all day, and stores including CVS say they won’t even stock it. It’s offensive, exploitative, and glorifies violence are the more common refrains. At Slate , Mark Joseph… …read more
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By Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff
Perhaps hoping to repeat its 1970 cover story on Charles Manson, which won a National Magazine Award, Rolling Stone has put a picture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bomber who is still alive and facing trial, on its cover. Tagline: “How A Popular, Promising Student Was Failed by His Family, Fell Into Radical Islam, and Became a Monster.” …read more
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
CVS and New England-based grocery store chain Tedeschi Foods say they won’t be selling this week’s Rolling Stone, which features Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover, Boston Magazine reports.
Tedeschi posted this to its Facebook page after Rolling Stone released an early peek of the cover, which is set to hit shelves Friday:
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Rolling Stone magazine is drawing fire for putting Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover, in a glam shot that critics say continues to blur the line between fame and infamy.
The picture, which accompanies a story titled “Jahar’s World,” shows the accused murderer with his long, curly hair tousled and the hint of a goatee, reminiscent of the magazine’s iconic shots of rock and roll royalty like The Doors’ Jim Morrison. The cover could send a dangerous message to Tsarnaev’s warped supporters, said one critic.
“If they want to become famous, kill somebody,” Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told MyFoxBoston.com.
The issue, which hits newsstands Friday, depicts an unsmiling Tsarnaev, 19, above a boldface headline, “The Bomber.” The story, which features interviews from childhood friends, teachers and law enforcement agents, promises to reveal how a “popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster.”
In a blog posting late Tuesday, Rolling Stone detailed “five revelations” in the story by contributing editor Janet Reitman, including Tsarnaev’s increasing devotion to Islam while still in high school, as well as his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s possible mental illness, which the boys’ mother decided would be better treated by Islam than by a psychiatrist.
“Around 2008, Jahar’s older brother Tamerlan confided to his mother that he felt like ‘two people’ were inside him,” the blog posting reads. “She confided this to a close friend who felt he might need a psychiatrist, but Zubeidat believed that religion would be the cure for her son’s inner demons and growing mental instability, and pushed him deeper into Islam.”
Rolling Stone has not commented publicly on the decision to put Tsarnaev on the cover, which recently featured actor Johnny Depp and singers Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
Supporters of Tsarnaev, who believe in the face of overwhelming evidence that he’s innocent of the charges against him, appeared last week during his federal court appearance in Boston. Some wore T-shirts with phrases like “Free the Lion,” while others held “Free Jahar” signs outside Boston’s John Joseph Moakley federal courthouse on Wednesday.
“Give Dzhokhar back his life,” one protester reportedly said.
“If you really cared about the victims you would be more interested in the truth,” said another Tsarnaev supporter.
The Rolling Stone cover quickly drew a negative reaction on social media, as “Boycott Rolling Stone” quickly became a trending Twitter topic in Boston.
“Very rarely does something make me so mad I have a negative tweet, but #BoycottRollingStone,” one user posted early Wednesday. “Absolutely unacceptable.”
Many other Twitter users indicated they would never purchase another Rolling Stone magazine.
“Way to glorify a madman,” another posting read.
Federal authorities allege that the Tsarnaev brothers planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. The explosions killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
Four days later, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who survived a shootout with police during which Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed, was captured following a daylong manhunt in the Boston suburb of Watertown.
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By Ruth Brown
Controversial might be too weak a word: Rolling Stone’s latest cover star is accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The decision to feature a glossy image of the alleged criminal on the front of millions of magazines has not gone down well with many, who have taken to Rolling Stone ‘s… …read more
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Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will appear on the cover of the Aug. 3 edition of Rolling Stone magazine.
The cover, which features a self-taken portrait of Tsarnaev donning shaggy hair and a goatee, identifies him simply as “The Bomber,” while promising to explain “how a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster.” The cover story itself was reported over the course of two months by Rolling Stone contributing editor Janet Reitman.
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A never-before-seen photo of a topless Angelina Jolie posing with a horse is up for auction at Christie’s.
The 2001 photo titled “Horseplay’ is an outtake from a David LaChapelle shoot for Rolling Stone, and is expected to fetch between $38,325 and $53,655.
According to the Daily Mail, the photo of Jolie will go on sale alongside a black and white print of the 37-year-old actress and Brad Pitt posing as husband and wife for photographer Steven Klein, which ran in W magazine in 2005. That photo is expected to go for approximately $15,000, reports E! News.
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Believe it or not, Louis C.K. is a Mexican immigrant.
The award-winning comedian — who was born in the U.S., but lived in Mexico for several years as a child — is the subject of an upcoming Rolling Stone cover story, in which he talks candidly about his surprisingly complex racial identity.
Coming here and observing America as an outsider made me an observing person. I grew up in Boston and didn’t get the accent, and one of the reasons is that I started in Spanish. I was a little kid, so all I had to do was completely reject my Spanish and my Mexican past, which is a whole lot easier because I’m white with red hair. I had the help of a whole nation of people just accepting that I’m white.
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By Alexander Taub, Contributor
On January 17th, 2013, I wrote a post on my this blog about a company called Yesware. I had been using their tool for a few weeks and was really impressed with it. I wrote one of my last articles on the benefits of using their product, and didn’t think more about it. But I noticed that the pageviews number was increasing more rapidly than normal. I looked at the numbers they were at 25k pageviews, then 50k, then 100k, and now over two months later, over 250k. I was perplexed. I emailed Matthew Bellows, the CEO of Yesware to ask him what was going on: I knew they had some investors who tweeted it out, like Brad Feld. Maybe that was it. Nope. Instead, they were using two Israeli companies, Outbrain and Taboola, to get the article more distribution. These two leaders in the content marketing space or as I like to call it, AdSense for content, have a simple offering that you’ve probably seen but don’t even know about. Combined, they power the “other content you may like” next to every article on every big publication ranging from Time, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and more. Outbrain and Taboola only recently started going after the same deals. Outbrain is coming from the contextual text side, whereas Taboola comes from the videos-you-may-like side. They only recently built the other side of the offering that steps into the “others” territory. But this piece is not about comparing them to see who is better. Rather, it is about the space of content marketing, why it is the next big thing, and how you are missing out big time if you are not pushing your content into the marketplace. A little more about how the space works: you have two options as a content creator and blog/site owner. The first is to add a widget on your blog to host “other content you may like” and get paid to push people to good content. The second is to get your content pushed into the marketplace and have it appear on “other content you may like” for other outlets ranging from big to small sites. The first side you get paid, the second side you set an amount per click and a budget. The interesting thing here is that both companies have convinced huge content creators, like The New York Times, CNN, and Time that it is worthwhile to link people off their site. Think about that? They are linking people to other content sites. That either means Outbrain and Taboola have killer sales people (which they probably do), or they can prove that linking people to good content will make them more money than a standard ad banner. That’s where this becomes dangerous and a real threat to Google AdSense. If you have a personal blog, how much would you pay to get a few thousand more views a month? $5? $10? Content marketing allows you to do this. Now …read more
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The internet had a field day Tuesday with reports that Kanye West was working on an album titled “I Am God,” a rumor that seemed to originate from a parenthetical in a BBC post about what West and Kim Kardashian may name their child (apparently “North” is a name that’s in the running).
Given West‘s habit of being outspoken (and a Rolling Stone cover in which he posed in a crown of thorns), many sites were eager to run with the unattributed factoid. The only problem is that that rumor appears to be a bit of a misunderstanding. A reliable source in West’s camp tells HuffPost Entertainment that the title is actual for an upcoming single, and that the album’s name has yet to be set. The track will be called “I Am A God” (emphasis added).
“We would never be so presumptuous or sacrilegious to call ourselves the supreme being,” the source said. While everyone will have to wait for the actual song to parse the specifics of the song’s message, the source hinted that the idea was generally that all people are manifestations of a higher power.
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Rick Springfield might have been asking himself “What Kind of Fool Am I?” on Friday after he was arrested for failing to appear in court.
Springfield was taken into custody at his Los Angeles home on Friday after the court issued a warrant for his arrest on Wednesday following his missing a scheduled court date for a previous DUI charge, according to E! News.
Back in May 2011, Springfield was arrested for DUI after police pulled him over for speeding down the Pacific Coast Highway, according to Rolling Stone. Last August, he pleaded no contest to a reckless driving with “DUI conditions” charge and was ordered to attend a three-month alcohol education program.
