Just to make it clear, when GSS says...

"the deciding factor, why they are featured, is their youth.,.that to me is no more acceptable, than someone being featured or not featured because of their race"

...this is opinion, speculation and conjecture. It is misleading to state this so baldly and unequivocally ("the deciding factor IS their youth", my emphasis), as if this was an actual established editorial policy that Ian Anderson had admitted to.

If you were widely-read journalist making a statement like that in a newspaper about a different newspaper, you'd be at risk of being sued for libel. It's one thing to say that, in your opinion fRoots features an inordinate number of young people on their cover; it's entirely different to baldly state that this what DECIDES the cover!

I haven't gone and examined all the previous fRoots covers, but the current fRoots cover pictures Konono No.1, none of whom are remotely young. Ergo, youth literally cannot be THE deciding factor (please note which word I have highlighted here and think about why I have chosen to highlight that particular word).