"I like the way you think."
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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Trump should buy it. The melting of snowflakes would be glorious.
Journalistic reputation???
Bwahahahaha.
They gave honest loadies a bad name.
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.
My first thought was that Dr. Hook should buy it. Then they could be on the cover every issue.
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.
Will it even fetch a dollar like NewsWeak? (sic)
It was Newsweak (sic) that sold for $1
Going once, going twice, sold!
Make Rolling Stone Great Again!
Have they always peddled left-wing horse shit?
How are things in Gitmo these days by the way?
It was always counter culture, so yes.
“Perhaps I can make it next year if we have a good crop of Boll Weevils.”
Stop it, you’re triggering me! Racist!
Yes, but is its counterpart worth anymore?
Not to mention William Miller.
Puerto Rico???
Slowly I turned...step by step...inch by inch...
Hillary Clinton.
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.
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!
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