Retailers are refusing to put the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev covered Rolling Stone Magazine on their store shelves

...The CVS, Roche Bros., Tedeschi, Cumberland Farms, Walgreens, and Stop & Shop chains said they would not put the issue on their shelves. 

“As a company with deep roots in New England and a strong presence in Boston, we believe this is the right decision out of respect for the victims of the attack and their loved ones,” CVS said in a statement. 

Katlyn Townsend — a friend of bombing victim Jeffrey Bauman, who lost both his legs in the bombing — posted an open letter to Wenner on Facebook, saying, “While I respect and support the media’s right to freedom of speech, I do not condone your blatant abuse of that right to sell magazines.” 

“Your use of a provocative, borderline sympathetic image and headline of someone who has caused so much pain to our country is appalling, insensitive, and disgusting,” Townsend wrote, demanding that the issue be pulled from newsstands and the Web...

Read the full story HERE. A more appropriate cover could have been:

"Terrorism isn't Pretty"

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