Friday, July 26, 2013

ROLLING STONE CONTROVERSY


What went wrong with Rolling Stone doing an investigative piece on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? After reading , “Explaining the Rolling Stone Cover, by a Boston Native” By Matt Taibbi. I can easily say that the reason that there is so much controversy over this Rolling Stone cover are the following is ethics.( Ethics: The law dictates how a person must behave; Canege Advantage books: Intro to Business Law: Chapter 2 Business ethics and Social Responsibility) Since the general populous knows Rolling Stone as a magazine for entertainment or just not a series magazine. They have “famous people” on their covers, so when Rolling stone did a story on  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The public didn’t respond to it like they would to a known news outlet. Now Rolling Stones is facing defamation as a corporation. Citizens United v FEC: The First Amendment Rights of Corporate "Persons", the proposition that the corporation is a legal person with (most of) the same rights as natural persons has been settled as a matter of constitutional law since at least 1885(:http://www.bbb.org/chicago/business-reviews/compact-discs-tapes-and-records-retail/rolling-stones-corporation-in-harwood-heights-il-87001191 )  ( The First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech, a vital freedom that enables us to protect other rights. But that freedom is not absolute;  Canege Advantage books: Intro to Business Law: Chap 5 Torts and Business Torts) Rolling Stone is a Public personality persay a celeb company in my opinion of them since I only singers or actors on their cover(s). (Public Personalities The rules of the game change for those who play in the open. Government officials and other types of public figures such as actors and athletes receive less protection from defamation) Now the actual article that the Rolling Stone wrote was investigative and one feels nothing for Dzhokhar. He did a horrible act against Boston and it's victims and it will never be  glamorized.

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