Rolling Stone Magazine is up for sale
2The digital age kills many things. No protection because of going it allows without the protection of a conglomerate doesn’t helo either.
NYT
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/business/rolling-stone-magazine-sale.html?referer=
Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale
A few paragraphs from the article
It filled its pages with pieces than ran in the thousands of words by standard bearers of the counterculture, including Hunter S. Thompson — whose “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was published in the magazine in two parts — and Tom Wolfe. It started the career of the celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, who for many years delivered electrifying cover images, including an iconic photograph in 1981 of a naked John Lennon curled in a fetal position with Yoko Ono.
Music coverage in all of its forms — news, interviews, reviews — was the core of Rolling Stone, but its influence also stretched into pop culture, entertainment and politics. A bastion of liberal ideology, the magazine became a required stop for Democratic presidential candidates — Mr. Wenner has personally interviewed several, including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — and it has pulled no punches in its appraisal of Republicans. In 2006, Rolling Stone suggested George W. Bush was the “worst president in history.” More recently, the magazine featured Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, on its cover with the headline, “Why Can’t He Be Our President?”
The magazine also published widely acclaimed political stories, including one in 2009 on Goldman Sachs by the writer Matt Taibbi, who famously described the company as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” The next year, the magazine ran a piece with the headline, “The Runaway General,” that ended the career of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.
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Oh cool it can be the new voice of Scientology.
Huh?
@awk I’m guessing it might should be:
alone ==> allows
help ==> helo
though even then it doesn’t make that much sense.
@baqui63
Swipe kB, poorly used, just gives me an extra excuse for being unintelligible.
It does not originate the unintelligibility.
Thx.
I prefer the mystery of it.
They should have stuck to covering music. . .
@jrwofuga they lost their way…
@jrwofuga There’s no music to cover anymore
@jrwofuga …and the congregation said, “AMEN”!
They should have stuck to rolling papers.
Based on the today’s story, is @snapster buying Rolling Stone?
@devyanks90 Nah he’s too busy hob nobbing with the Talk babes.
Well, the NY Daily News sold for $1 (there are no missing zeros), so I’ll start the bidding at 75 cents.
Note to self: do not get excited and bid anything higher than $1.26.
@baqui63 how much does a single copy cost?
@eeterrific Of what? The NY Daily News? Or Rolling Stone magazine? (Tho my answer is the same for both: I don’t know.)
I just have to:
/youtube on the cover of the rolling stone
My offer is to trade 4 really Sweet (slightly used ) emergency security lights, for the assets of Rolling Stone…Did I mention they can also charge a USB device and sometimes make an annoying beeping sound?
@Brasssong I’ll see your lights and raise you 10 (Yes, I said 10) pineapple mugs!!
I bid some moss. I hear they have a really hard time getting ahold of it themselves.
@nogoodwithnames lololol
@nogoodwithnames nyuk… clevah!
One of my host mom’s friends painted the classic tongue image on her garden fence. The neighbors somehow thought it was a jab at them? And requested that it be removed. Which is ridiculous and not going to happen.
They’re having some sort of party and Mick Jagger himself has been invited. They’re not expecting him to show up, but it never would’ve occurred to me to even invite him, so good on them!
@alphapeaches Rolling Stone (magazine) and The Rolling Stones (band) are two different things.
@alphapeaches I think a lot of people would not want to look at that. The Stones are one of my favs, went to see them, bought much of their music, plastered my walls with The Stones and Mick. Really hated that image.
It was good in the 70s… downhill from there.
@lseeber
They still pulled off since decent journalism here and there.
Maybe, but I was done with it around '78 and hadn’t picked one up since.
I’ll just wait for Mad magazine to come up for sale.
It’s probably got better articles than Rolling Stone has had lately.
Rolling Stone was righteous in it’s day! It was THE reading material to keep up with news in music.
The internet has changed the need for reading this news in magazines/newspapers. Get it the day it happens.
I still get magazines coz I like them.
My books are digital coz I like them.
I love to read, any way, shape or form, just not Rolling Stone for YEARS!
Here’s a link to one of the legendary classics:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A savage journey to the heart of the American dream
Hunter S. Thompson, 1971
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas-19711111
The market has spoken.
@ckcarlton
Against RS, against magazines, I fear.
You could buy all the hippie mags and merge them into the Rolling High Earth Catalog or the Whole Rolling High Times
@cranky1950
I think you already took care of that.
No doubt, during one of your “travel excursions”; either Way Back When, or More Recently.
Have another one. This one is recent, and lighter.
Keith Richards’ Wildest Escapades: 19 Insane Tales From a Legendary Life
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/keith-richards-wildest-escapades-19-insane-tales-from-a-legendary-life-20150916