1) Magazines are uniquely important in American culture, which is why the approximately sixty zillion hours of Boston Bomber coverage on TV and thousands of pictures of him plastered across newspapers for months are acceptable, but one magazine cover that calls him a "Monster" is horrible.
2) The media have never covered any mass murderers before -- why, the public doesn't even know the names of previous mass killers like Dillinger, Manson, and Bundy, do they?
See also: Michael Ramirez, Mike Lester, Steve Breen, and others who don't remember RS's long history of looking evil in the eye:
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