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The most controversial magazine covers of all time…

Controversy is not a new thing in magazines. Face Time Magazine Editorials featured here have been subjects to enough scrutiny to become something of their own.

One of the Face Time Magazine Editorials looks at the August cover of Rolling Stone featuring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Bomber. Several stores did not carry this issue. Face Time Magazine Editorials notes that this cover choice stirred up strong opinions and was accused of giving Tsarnaev a "rock star treatment".

Face Time Magazine Editorials observes the naming of Adolf Hitler as "person of the year" by Time magazine in 1938.

Other historical Face Time Magazine Editorials include the 1965 cover of Life magazine featuring the chief of the Vietnam helicopter crew, James C. Farley. Farley was shown with his hand on a jammed machine gun while the wounded pilot Lt. James E. Magel was featured dying beside him.

Rolling Stone putting Beatles singer/founder John Lennon along with his wife, Yoko Ono made is another one of the Face Time Magazine Editorials. The couple were photographed by Annie Leibovitz hours before the singer’s death on Dec. 8, 1980. This Face Time Magazine Editorials was featured on the Jan 22, 1981 cover of the magazine.

Time once again courted controversy and made it to the Face Time Magazine Editorials list by having to apologize for darkening O.J. Simpson’s headshot for their June, 1994 cover.

Another such Face Time Magazine Editorials include Time magazine’s April, 2013 cover featuring double covers of same- sex couples. This was done during the time Supreme Court took up two such cases. Another Face Time Magazine Editorials of Time shows a toddler breastfeeding while one of his mother’s breasts is fully exposed.

Last but not the least, Face Time Magazine Editorials follows up the New Yorker’s cover of July 21, 2008 when it drew outrage over then-presidential candidate, Barack Obama being featured in the same attire as Osama Bin Laden.

Michelle Obama’s caricature was also portrayed in a combat gear and an amplified Afro. This item in the Face Time Magazine Editorials   was called out by the Obama campaign as "tasteless and insensitive".

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