Rolling Stone – N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,

٠ How Rolling Stone alienated the place of the subject ٠

The cover of the August edition of Rolling Stone mag features Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of Boston’s bombers. People are furious. At first sight, that hysteria could be reasonably understood. Given the suffering he allegedly caused, people might not want him to have protagonism (though they like reading about crimes in the newspaper and watch crime…