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Will You Boycott Rolling Stone Magazine?

By Ryan Fitzpatrick (Editor)

Rollins Stone magazine recently spurred a storm of controversy by placing the photo of suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the front cover of the latest edition.

Now, one Patch blogger is asking readers to "please boycott the advertisers of Rolling Stone magazine, along with the places that sell it."

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"In essence, Rolling Stone is now 'celebrifying' this sick, demented mass murderer in much the same fashion as it did legitimate rock celebrities like Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison about 40 years ago," Frank Zabierek wrote on Patch.

You can read the whole blog post on Nashua Patch.

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Do you agree with Zabierek? Does the decision merit a boycott or is the nation making too big a deal about this? 

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