S.W.O.T.
On July 17, 2013, Rolling Stones set out their current edition featuring one of the Boston attacks bomber on the cover along with a long article depicting the events before the bombing of April 15, 2013. In this article they research and profile the life of 19 year old, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also known as "Jahar". Jahar and his older brother and co-conspirator Tamerlan who was killed in a deadly shooting between the police are responsible for this bombing. Rolling Stones has received a lot of publicity and controversy for featuring a terrorist on their cover. Many people view Rolling Stones as a pop culture magazine that solely features news surrounding the music industry. But now they have generated quite the attention. I think there strengths are that they are popular for featuring the influential people on the their covers, and they already have a set audience in the industry that follows and reads their publications. They are very influential in pop culture, and I find that a strength would be that they are trying to break away from just music and feature more news, politics and world events that concern all of us. I also think that it is their weakness because they have been known and centralized on the music industry it is hard to break away from your roots and be taken to a different direction. "As to the question of why anyone would ever put a terrorist on a cover of a magazine for any reason beyond the opportunity to slash a red X through his face or depict him in crosshairs, there's an explanation for that. Terrorists are a fact of our modern lives and we need to understand them, because understanding is the key to stopping them". Matt Taibbi explained after it was on stands what he thought of the publication and its reasons behind it. I think that Rolling Stoned did a good job on depicting the life of Jahar and made a clear point to what they were trying to tell the world but it was set in a different context.
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