Posted on 09/16/2025 11:22:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Rolling Stone was hit with a series of high-profile layoffs this week, which we can only hope means the magazine will get what it deserves: a long, slow, painful, and humiliating death.
“An unknown number of Rolling Stone staff, including some of the storied publication’s most prominent voices, were laid off on Monday,” reports the far-left Wrap.
Tee hee.
Those s******ed include “executive digital director Lisa Tozzi, chief television critic Alan Sepinwall and copy chief Steven Pearl.”
Learn to coalmine. …
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That’s a shame.
“There’s a new band in town, but you can’t get the sound
From a story in a magazine
Aimed at your average teen”
They got stale along with MTV.
Tommy was morose.
I don’t read them so I don’t know why they’re losing readers or advertiser or what’s going on with them. Usually it’s big egos printing more pages than they can afford to print based on ad revenue... Less money, print fewer pages.
I’m convinced Rolling Stone is CIA mockingbird media.
The brand died in the 1990s as their hippie-boomer readership aged.
Yet somehow, it was revived and survived - because it still has use as propaganda and narrative forming.
Just like Time, Newsweek, New Republic, Vanity Fair, and Yes, National Review.
I’ll be pleased when The Rolling Stone rolls into the Rock Crusher and becomes The Cesspool Sand.
The Strolling Bones outlived their usefulness a long, long time ago. Vietnam is over and everybody smokes marijuana legally now. All you need is a quack “pain doctor.”
It’s a rotten leftist rag.
MTV stopped playing music videos in the 1990s. That is what made it stale.
I used to like that mag back in the 1980s. Seems like a lifetime ago. Forgive me. I was young.
Yeah the internet didn’t kill print instantly but a long slow process of drip drip and then the end comes suddenly. In this case it might take a few suddenlies though.
Please tell me Wired will be next.
Or The New Yorker
Learn to code!
Let’s see.
Fake story about rape at University of Virginia cost them millions.
Now with USAID shut down is the money spigot turned off to pay salaries?
Surprised that RS is still around.
I wonder how long Rolling Stone has been losing money?
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