Following the release of Rolling Stone's controversial
August issue with alleged Boston
bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover, thousands of angry subscribers to the
magazine declared they would cease paying for the publication.
On Wednesday, retailers like CVS,
Walgreens, Shaw's and others declared they would not sell copies of
the Rolling Stone issue in-store. Greater Media’s WBOS Radio 92.9 FM is taking it a step further.
Radio 92.9 announced on its Facebook page it will 'buy' back copies of the August issue
of Rolling Stone on Friday, July 26, in exchange for random concert tickets. The only stipulation
is that the copies must be your subscription; in other words, a listener can't run to the
store and buy a magazine just for the free tickets - that kind of defeats the
purpose of the promotion.
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