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.
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.
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.