that's just speculation at this point about the speed >>> oscar winning director, roman polanski's darkestving sex with a 13-year-old girl. the victim is now putting out a book telling her story as ben tracy reports. the new intention is based on the cover photo. >> the close-up of 13-year-old samantha geimer on the cover of her memoir is an image of youth and innocence. the year was 1977. she dreamed of becoming a movie star. the man who took this and other photos of her was a famous director roman polanski. >> this photograph was taken at her first session with roman polanski. for her, it is the start of her story. that seems like the natural image to use as the cover. >> at the time polanski was basking in the success of his latest film "chinatown" starring jack nicholson. he arranged a second photo shoot with geimer at her house. he shared the photos and explained what happened next to cbs news back in 2003. >> what made me uncomfortable is that he asked me to change my blouse in front of him. the last photos were taken in the jacuzzi. then, he got in the jacuzzi and then that's when i

is on the cover because up until now rolling stone's covers always featured role models like roman polanski, o.j. simpson or charles manson. [ cheers and applause ] why hent that dude put out any good music lately? he was my favorite beach boy. now folks, i'm going to shock some people right now by defending rolling stone magazine. they're just using controversy to gain attention. let's face it. the magazine industry is dying. i don't know why. i think it may have caught something from sitting in all those doctors' offices. now besides, rolling stone is not doing anything that has not been done by other magazines. i mean, we all remember when men's health had their controversial cover. hitler's final solution for belly fat flew off the shelves and cosmopolitan's 50 ways to make your man say americans must pay with blood for the death of muslims abroad. warning. number 5 is whvment whistling) rolling stone, listen up. i am not going to bite on your controversy bait here and give you free publicity by holding up your magazine and talking about it. nice try. you see, i'm not a guy who just buy

the cover has always featured role models like roman polanski, o.j.s manson. >> make sure people know if they're reading it next to you. >> we know when "men's health" had, "cosmopolitan's". >> so far at least nine companies are now boy coiting it. >> i am not going to bite on your controversy bait here, okay? and give you free publicity by holding up your magazine and talking about it. >> we don't live in mr. snowden's russia, we live in the united states of america. >> very first reaction was ew. >> thank you, detractors, please, with your tedious outrage machine. >> totally sympathetic to the people in boston, including the mayor, including some of the officers who were sod. >> richard donohue, the officers who was shot in a standoff. >> they could have gone with a classier cover. >>> let's get right to our panel. joining us is tourre, and mckay. i'm going to start with you, mckay. this raises a number of issues, from freedom of speech to a brilliant marketing campaign by a magazine. mckay, given that we do not show repeatedly planes flying into th

rolling stone" is no stranger to controversy having put charles manson on its cover in 1970 and roman polanski in 1981. in an interview with npr wednesday, the magazine's managing editor defended the decision. >> this is a person who is the same age as many of our readers who to his peer group seemed like one of them. and that's what we thought made the story so powerful and disturbing and it is in no way to endorse or glorify what he did. i think the opposite, trying to understand it and explain it. >> yosh josh is a print magazin dude. to you first on this. talk a little bit about -- i mean i am of the thought that -- i will read a quote from the "boston globe," op-ed that sort of puts it all in context. it is a very "rolling stone" image but it is accompanied by a very un"rolling stone" cover line -- the bomber how a popular promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical islam and became a monster." that's pretty unequivocal and something newspapers like this one have taken great pains to avoid. it convicts him. lechl of outrage this has provopr zbls. >> the point of the maga

up until now they always show roll models like roman polanski, o.j. simpson or charles manson.e all remember when men's health had their controversial cover, hitler's final solution for belly fat flew off the shelves and cosmopolitan's 50 ways to make your man say americans must pay with blood for muslims abroad. >>> rolling stone magazine has kicked a hornet's nest wide open showing the boston bomber looking like a rock star. it's similar to other rock stars. boston's mayor tom menino called it a toto disgrace. death threats have reached the office. "the new yorker" said the controversy or nontraversy said just because something sparks outrage and i tend to agree with that. full disclosure, i worked at rolling stone for ten years and i can put that aside and say, guys, i don't find it to be a controversy or something to be outraged about. you know, we all see this person as a monster. i think everybody in america or almost everybody in america is clear on that. the cover calls him a monster. they don't use his name so they're really sort of dehumanizing him in that way. what i