The NY Times rushes to the defense of Rolling Stone. Note the name calling ("hypervntilated") and the specious comparison of an ordinary news shot of Hitler with the ginned up shock magnet the magazine actually used.
Well, anyone looking at the image will have to grant that it is what the trades call a glamour shot. It is one thing to defend freedom of the press. It is another to throw common sense out the window in denial when folks are outraged.The drumbeat became so feverish that Walgreens, CVS and a few other stores have refused to sell the magazine.
The mayor of Boston hyperventilated that it “rewards a terrorist with celebrity treatment.”
But if it were a case of, say, "inappropriate speech" having to do with the holy trinity (gender, race, sexual preferences), then you would find the Times eschewing terms like "hyperventilated" to describe those expressing outrage.