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.
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It’s like People or Us with more music coverage.
“Any ideas of who will buy it?”
I would consider it if Wenner puts it into CH 11.
5.56mm
Why, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of Puerto Rico.
The beaches....the hula girls....the giant Ponzi Scheme run by the government.
I think that Puerto Rico serves as an excellent model for what happens when people vote criminals into office.
Puerto Rico is broke.
I’m sure that there are plenty of good people in Puerto Rico who love their cats and adopt stray mothers, or something like that.
Criticism of Puerto Rico is not a personal criticism of you.
There are no longer classics like “Yummy Yummy Yummy. I got love in my tummy.”
Maybe like Newsweak it will sell for a $.
Newsweek Sells For $1 To Stereo Equipment Mogul Sidney Harman ...
www.businessinsider.com/its-official-newsweek-will-be-sold-to-former-stereo-equipm...
Aug 2, 2010 - Newsweek Sells For $1 To Stereo Equipment Mogul Sidney Harman. It’s official: Newsweek will be sold to former stereo equipment mogul Sidney Harman, who reportedly bid $1 “in exchange for absorbing Newsweek’s considerable financial liabilities,” according to Jeremy Peters of The New York Times and Nat Ives of AdAge.
Indeed it was.
Maybe they merge it with Playboy - another over-the-hill publication.
In the 1980s...I read Rolling Stone....off and on. They could come up with two or three really great articles in each copy.
I do agree with you...most all of these magazines went through some phase about a dozen years ago, and the mindset became that you’d politicize different things and spoon-feed people. National Geographic, Arizona Highways, and even Readers Digest....went this way. Time and Newsweek were probably five years ahead of them.
Now, I will say this. If you walked in and bought Rolling Stone and just said...no more political copy...just plain culture, rock, music, and trends...you would rebuild the base and bring the brand-name back. I don’t think such an owner exists, and the magazine will end in twelve months.
Rolling Stone aka ‘Fake-Rape Magazine’. Yeah I’ll bid a Canadian nickel.
“In order to be equal, in order to be liberated, some white people might have to die.”
- Tommy Curry, an associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University
Your style of thinking seems to be very popular these days.
Zuckerberg, Bezos or Apple................
I used to read it cover to cover in the early 70’s..........
The Rolling Stone has outlived it’s usefulness by about 35 years. His son has just inheirited an ossified, atrophied concept. There is little new music that is widely shared these days.
Some new music is very good, but try finding a large group who have also heard it at the same time you did.
By that same artist and in that same format. There is so much of it because almost anyone can produce a permanent record of their songs.
You don’t really need a studio to do this for you as a new act. Just find someone experienced with fishing notes from a computer and combining with certain visual effects.
Rock birthed Rolling Stone and was its Mana for decades.
The decline of mainstream rock and it’s replacement by Rap/Hip-Hop and pop has as much to do with the mag’s demise as anything.
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