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Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale
NYT ^ | 9/17/17 | SYDNEY EMBER

Posted on 09/17/2017 7:26:03 PM PDT by Rebelbase

From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons and produced star-making covers that were such coveted real estate they inspired a song.

But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and a botched story three years ago about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine’s journalistic reputation.

And so, after a half-century reign that propelled him into the realm of the rock stars and celebrities who graced his covers, Mr. Wenner is putting his company’s controlling stake in Rolling Stone up for sale, relinquishing his hold on a publication he has led since its founding.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: liberalmedia; media; msm; rollingstone
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To: Rebelbase

Trump should buy it. The melting of snowflakes would be glorious.


21 posted on 09/17/2017 7:48:16 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: Rebelbase
... the magazine’s journalistic reputation..

Journalistic reputation???

Bwahahahaha.

They gave honest loadies a bad name.

22 posted on 09/17/2017 7:49:59 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Rebelbase

I rarely buy a magazine any more. I read online whatever is out there. I’m online so much, that going to sites and reading whatever they have out there has replaced buying a magazine. Plus I spend a lot of time on Free Republic.

There are only 24 hours in the day, and we all have to spend our time as we wish.


23 posted on 09/17/2017 7:50:28 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Rebelbase; Sasparilla

My first thought was that Dr. Hook should buy it. Then they could be on the cover every issue.


24 posted on 09/17/2017 7:50:44 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: adorno

I don’t know.

It was like something came over me.

I was just sitting here reading FR posts and clipping my toenails when suddenly, it was like somebody said the words “Puerto Rico”.

Well, it’s just me and the Little Dog sitting here and he can’t say “Puerto Rico” because he slurs his “S”s, so I was kind of shocked.

I waited to hear if any more American Territories or Protectorates were yelled out, but all was quiet.

Too quiet if you ask me, but you haven’t asked me about sound levels. I think you asked me about free-associating Puerto Rico with the Rolling Stone Magazine being for sale. I lose track, sometimes.

Well, I hope you have a wonderful Oktoberfest and I sure do thank you for inviting me to the yodeling competition. Perhaps I can make it next year if we have a good crop of Boll Weevils.


25 posted on 09/17/2017 7:51:05 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Rebelbase

Will it even fetch a dollar like NewsWeak? (sic)


26 posted on 09/17/2017 7:51:33 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

"I like the way you think."
27 posted on 09/17/2017 7:51:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Fungi

It was Newsweak (sic) that sold for $1


28 posted on 09/17/2017 7:52:49 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: onedoug

Going once, going twice, sold!


29 posted on 09/17/2017 7:53:37 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Make Rolling Stone Great Again!


30 posted on 09/17/2017 7:53:47 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Have they always peddled left-wing horse shit?


31 posted on 09/17/2017 7:54:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (https://imgoat.com/uploads/645920e395/39513.gif)
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To: blueunicorn6

How are things in Gitmo these days by the way?


32 posted on 09/17/2017 7:54:25 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Jeff Chandler

It was always counter culture, so yes.


33 posted on 09/17/2017 7:55:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: blueunicorn6

“Perhaps I can make it next year if we have a good crop of Boll Weevils.”

Stop it, you’re triggering me! Racist!


34 posted on 09/17/2017 7:56:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Bullish

Yes, but is its counterpart worth anymore?


35 posted on 09/17/2017 7:57:24 PM PDT by Fungi (90 percent of all soil biomass is a fungus. Fungi rule the world.)
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To: JennysCool
Such a fantastic magazine in the days of Tom Wolfe, P.J. O’Rourke and of course Hunter Thompson.

Not to mention William Miller.

36 posted on 09/17/2017 7:57:55 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (https://imgoat.com/uploads/645920e395/39513.gif)
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To: blueunicorn6

Puerto Rico???
Slowly I turned...step by step...inch by inch...


37 posted on 09/17/2017 7:58:55 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: Rebelbase

Hillary Clinton.


38 posted on 09/17/2017 7:59:14 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Rebelbase

Cool mag back when it was about music. I haven’t looked at it for a very long time since they made it into a leftist rag.


39 posted on 09/17/2017 8:00:30 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Rebelbase

Good question! My 1st snarky thought was a dollar, then I thought about the brand knock off, and dropped it to 50 cent,,,then rebranding enter my thoughts!


40 posted on 09/17/2017 8:02:02 PM PDT by goodtomato (I'm really, really blessed!)
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