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Originally Posted by dyna mo
not at all. but that's not what they did. they attempted to do a psychological profile (different from a character study) to explain a bomber, based on observations of events and 3rd party interviews of people's interpretations of him and events; all couched in some sort of "we did this so we can all understand* reasoning.
yet the article didn't really help me understand why that kid looked women and children in the eyes and laid a bomb down at their feet then unflinchingly walked away as the bomb exploded, killed and maimed.
that said, i don't really have a problem with them running that story. i don't think they should try and portray it as an expose though, it's not really. it's certainly not one of their better crafted articles, the mccrystal article will blow your mind, not just because of what it exposes, but of how well it is written. i actually started a thread here about that article i was so moved by it.
tbh, it seems to me, that the picture generated the story.
it's just a weak as a cover story imo. so many better and more compelling cover stories for them to pursue. heck, i just gave them 2 terrific story ideas just talking out of my ass in this thread! 
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To me it was a character study. It showed how he was moving along in society without there being many clues to what he would end up doing. It mentioned the few times he made comments that may have even given a hint of that but then also showed by it would have been dismissed by his friends. It follows him from his younger years and then to the point where his family started to fall apart including his the events surrounding his sisters. Then, it starts to introduce why his brother became such an influence to him and the way in which his brother's views became stronger and his actions more extreme which was reflected in the transformation of his wife.
It is a 'they walk amongst us' story and that is the image they needed to use to reflect that. Do I think it is the best article ever written? No but I do think it is better than most broadcast news coverage of it, barring maybe the Frontline episode on his brother. It is certainly a stronger than last week's cover with Johnny Depp as Tonto.
There is just a lot more things to be upset about in media coverage of any variety of current issues than a magazine running a cover image that wasn't ugly enough for people. When 'they' go nuts because a Danish publication runs a drawing of Mohammad the same people that are being so vocal about boycotting and burning this magazine are up in arms about the barbaric nature of such a thing.