[mgjim]

I see these as two separate issues. Rolling Stone isn't doing anything that hasn't been done before in the print media. Al Capone, Adolf Hitler, and the Ayatollah Khomeini have all been on the cover of Time Magazine. Josef Stalin was the Time Man of the Year twice. So it isn't like murderers and other criminals haven't been on the cover of magazines before. If I'm not mistaken, Usama Bin Laden was also on the cover of plenty of print publications. At least Rolling Stone includes the words, "bomber" and "monster" when describing the Boston bomber.

Stevie Wonder, on the other hand is making a business decision. It will be his loss by never working in Florida or any other stand-your-ground state. I'd be more impressed if he would refuse to work in Chicago until the murders stop there. I wasn't even aware that he still has an audience.

One of the hard things about being an American is that we have to allow free speech even when that speech is offensive to us. It is the only way to protect our own right of free speech.