Did Rolling Stone magazine commit a grave offense by putting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon in April, on its cover?
I spoke to BBC WM on Thursday afternoon about the controversy in the US. The take-away line: “For many, the problem is that the picture made Tsarnaev human….My reaction is completely different. The provocation is not the picture but the text below it: “How a Popular, Promising Student Was Failed By His Family, Fell into Radical Islam, and Became a Monster”.
The discussion begins at the 50:48 mark.
