The current controversial issue I decided to bring up is the barbie doll on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2014 and whether or not Sports Illustrated should have put barbie on the cover or one of their original models. I personally do not have a preference of what is on the cover of sports illustrated and i think it was a bad decision on sports illustrates behalf to put barbie on the cover. barbie should not be on the cover because in my prospective barbie is a child's toy and sports illustrated swimsuit is a magazine advertised to an older audience. I believe this is just a public dispute and has nothing to do with federal or state laws. the fundamental right involved with sports illustrated I believe would be the facts that they can basically put whatever they want on the cover of their magazine. sports illustrated as a company has an interest in making money by selling magazines and by putting barbie on the cover i believe attracted more of an audience toward children and endangered the audience they already had by going toward children rather than adults.   

Move over, Barbie, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is here

• BY CINDY BOREN

• February 18 at 11:02 am

Sports Illustrated’s special annual issue saluting The Swimsuit Industry hits the stands Tuesday and, this year, there was a bit more controversy than usual surrounding it.

It had nothing to do with the choice to de-emphasize breasts in favor of backsides on the cover or about how little swimsuits actually have to do with the annual skinfest. Instead, it concerns a nearly 55-year-old known for an iconic black-and-white swimsuit and a physique that put the bod in bodacious decades ago. Yep, we’re talking Barbie, who, it should be noted, isn’t a real person.

Still, it can be argued that the combination of the swimsuit issue and the iconic doll is a natural. Swimsuits (and unrealistic body images) were never the same after the first doll rolled off the assembly line in 1959 and this is, after all, Sports Illustrated’s 50th anniversary swimsuit issue. There are magazines and toys to be sold, which made for a seemingly logical “ad wrap” for the issue. Never mind that distribution was limited. That didn’t tamp down the outrage.

This image provided by Sports Illustrated on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2014, shows the cover-wrap of the magazine’s 50th anniversary annual swimsuit issue. (AP Photo/Sports Illustrated

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/02/18/move-over-barbie-the-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue-is-here/?tid=hpModule_c7c1f590-868f-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394

(CNN) -- When Barbie burst onto scene in a black and white swimsuit in 1959, she was considered a rebel who embodied both "the sensuality of Marilyn Monroe and the innocence of Debbie Reynolds."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/living/barbie-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-edition-parents/


Barbie might be #unapologetic, but Sports Illustrated shouldn’t be. It should be embarrassed.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/teresagenaro/2014/02/20/barbie-is-unapologetic-but-sports-illustrated-should-be-embarrassed/