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[Dedalus]

Rolling Stone magazine puts Boston bombing suspect on the cover

 

[rainforests1]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/west-texas-aftermath-regulation-laws
Awful.

 

[beancounter]

Rolling Stone magazine puts Boston bombing suspect on the cover

I didn't know they were that desperate to increase their readership.

 

[Amy SF]

I didn't know they were that desperate to increase their readership.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Forster]

Rolling Stone magazine puts Boston bombing suspect on the cover

Not like they haven't done something like this before.

 

[Dedalus]

Not like they haven't done something like this before.

I didn't even need to check - as I was posting I thought 'They probably put Charles Manson on the cover at some point too.'

 

[ledboots]

I think it is a riot the way the media is claiming Rolling Stone is wrong for putting the killer on the cover. As if every television station in the country didn't have his face perpetually on the screen in every promo they did during that time period. Interviewing every relative, his friends at school, plastering his face on news websites, etc.

 

[beancounter]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/world/asia/india-school-meal-poisoning/

I really hope this was the result of an oversight or stupidity, and not politically motivated, like it's been suggested.

 

[rainforests1]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/16/starving-for-change/
Considered the largest prison protest in the history of California.

 

[thefadedone]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/world/asia/india-school-meal-poisoning/

I really hope this was the result of an oversight or stupidity, and not politically motivated, like it's been suggested.

How horrible.

 

[Forster]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/world/asia/india-school-meal-poisoning/

I really hope this was the result of an oversight or stupidity, and not politically motivated, like it's been suggested.

I don't know about politically motivated, but something just doesn't add up to me, it has to have been intentional. I can't imagine their would be enough pesticide used on the food to where it would kill so many unless it was washed or whatever.

 

[Dedalus]

I think it is a riot the way the media is claiming Rolling Stone is wrong for putting the killer on the cover. As if every television station in the country didn't have his face perpetually on the screen in every promo they did during that time period. Interviewing every relative, his friends at school, plastering his face on news websites, etc.

I agree to a point. The media's response is the pot calling the kettle black. But there is no denying genuine public outrage outside the media. RS's timing is horribly bad and most of all - they are a first and foremost a music magazine; who have now elevated a murderer to rock-star-like status. And why? Well, of course to sell magazines and get an enormous amount of publicity. But a close second is the fact that we're a society obsessed with personal appearance. Let's face it - the kid is handsome. Charles Manson as well. Mugs like that - even murderous ones - sell magazines.

On the flip side, I'm sure there was never a consideration of putting this ***-clown on the cover, no matter how much "in-depth" reporting was carried out.

 

[Calliegirl]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/16/starving-for-change/
Considered the largest prison protest in the history of California.

There's so much that needs to be fixed with the courts, laws and prisons. But, inmates are on the lowest rung of society, regardless of the reason they are in jail, and I don't see any change happening for a long, long time, if ever.

 

[Amy SF]

On the flip side, I'm sure there was never a consideration of putting this ***-clown on the cover, no matter how much "in-depth" reporting was carried out.

I'm sorry, I have no idea who that is.

 

[Dedalus]

I'm sorry, I have no idea who that is.

The Virginia Tech shooter.

From Wikipedia

 

[ledboots]

After 9/11/01, this was Rolling Stone's cover.

 

[Calliegirl]

I didn't think this belonged in the Zimmerman debate thread, but if it does, please move it. It's an open letter to George Zimmerman by Alex Fraser and has gone viral, it's being read on news shows and posted on news sites. I think it's amazing, but sad to think that that is what life is actually like for so many.

By Jonathan Capehart
There have been any number of powerful reactions to the acquittal of George Zimmerman. But a young man named Alex Fraser took to Facebook a few hours after the verdict was read to pen a most extraordinary open letter to the killer of Trayvon Martin. I first heard about it this morning when Steve Harvey read it on his radio show. It is short, but its power lies in the ironic twist of fate for Zimmerman that Fraser highlights.

Dear George Zimmerman,

For the rest of your life you are now going to feel what its like to be a black man in America.

You will feel people stare at you. Judging you for what you think are unfair reasons. You will lose out on getting jobs for something you feel is outside of your control. You will believe yourself to be an upstanding citizen and wonder why people choose to not see that.

People will cross the street when they see you coming. They will call you hurtful names. It will drive you so insane some days that you'll want to scream at the top of your lungs. But you will have to wake up the next day, put on firm look and push through life.

I bet you never thought that by shooting a black male you'd end up inheriting all of his struggles.

Enjoy your "freedom."

Sincerely,

A black male who could've been Trayvon Martin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/07/16/message-to-zimmerman-black-like-me/

 

[Amy SF]

Curiosity rover confirms Martian air is mostly CO2

ALICIA CHANG 23 hours ago


LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Curiosity rover has tasted Mars' air: It's made mostly of carbon dioxide with hints of other gases.

The measurements by the most advanced spacecraft to land on the red planet closely match what the twin Viking landers detected in the late 1970s and what scientists have gleaned from Martian meteorites — rock fragments that fell to Earth.

Mars' atmosphere is overwhelmingly dominated by carbon dioxide, unlike Earth's air, which is a mix of nitrogen and oxygen.

http://news.yahoo.com/curiosity-rover-confirms-martian-air-mostly-co2-180230931.html

"Beam me up *cough* Scotty, *cough* There's no *cough* breathable *cough cough* air *cough* down here."

 

[ledboots]

Nice story.
" WPTV.com WPTV.com

LANCASTER, Penn. - Two teenage boys are being hailed as heroes after they chased a car carrying a kidnapped girl -- on their bicycles.

Five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas was playing in her front yard in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when she vanished Thursday afternoon.

Authorities believe she was abducted by a man who lured her by offering ice cream.

For two hours, neighbors and police scoured the area and asked if anyone had seen her.

Temar Boggs, 15, and his friend took off on their bicycles to search.

About a half-mile away, they spotted Jocelyn in a sedan. But the driver was elusive.

"Every time we'd go down the street, he'd turn back around, and then ... we'll follow him," Temar told CNN affiliate WGAL.

The two teens chased the alleged kidnapper on their bikes for 15 heart-pounding minutes. The driver apparently knew he was being followed and gave up.

"He stopped at the end of the hill and let her out, and she ran to me and said that she needed her mom," Temar said."

Continues here http://www.turnto23.com/news/us-world/2-teenage-boys-on-bicycles-save-kidnapped-girl

 

[Freesia]

Petition for signing:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Release_Marte_Deborah_Dalelv/?wfjmabb