Posted on 08/15/2023 5:38:58 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Rolling Stone magazine is a joke. Its editorial slant is always far Left, and it has been busted more than once for unethical reporting.
There was its infamous Duke Lacrosse case, which resulted in the magazine settling a lawsuit . Then, last year, Rolling Stone Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman was accused of omitting a key fact from a story — namely, that a journalist had been raided not due to government overreach, but as part of a federal investigation into child pornography.
Then there was the story about Oklahoma hospitals allegedly being overwhelmed by patients who the magazine claimed overdosed on the drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19. The story was garbage, with even the Washington Post writing the “bogus” story “was just too good to check.” (Full disclosure: Rolling Stone has also taken a few whacks at me.)
Now the magazine is criticizing “Rich Men North of Richmond,” the country song by Oliver Anthony that went supernova last week. The song is a lament about low wages and political corruption. But according to Rolling Stone, the song “is a passionate screed against the state of the country and right-wing influencers are very into it.” Reporter Joseph Hudak argues that the reason the song “is appealing to right-wing influencers” is that it “wades into some Reagan-era talking points about welfare” and even makes a reference to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his infamous island.
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Who cares what Rolling Stone thinks. Why would someone write an article about some leftist opinion column? RS is irrelevant bathroom reading material.
They also don’t know s___ about music.
It’s kinda hysterical to see the difference between their genuine first-take reviews of albums and their fixed-up re-reviews after the bands they hated become some of the greatest bands of all time. Bands they absolutely hated include Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Queen (”the first truly fascist rock band”), Jimmie Hendrix,... pretty shameful... and these are the kind of bands you’d EXPECT them to like.
You mean Jan Wenner didn’t like Queen? Guess Freddie wasn’t Butch enough for him.
Rolling Stone is a joke- but i don’t think they had anything to do with the Duke lacrosse case.
Rather they wrote an long article on a gang rape at a Virginia frat house which never happened- it was all a lie.
They also claimed hospitals in Oklahoma were being over run by people who overdosed on ivermectin- remember the pictures of people waiting in line in the hot Oklahoma summer wearing winter jackets and wool hats? That too was a lie.
It is amazing this rag is still active.
Rolling Stone is dead. National Review is dead. The NY Times is dead. The Wapo is dead (assuming it was ever alive). Etc.
Sad!
I wrote Jann Werner a letter back in 1975 when the magazine was to move from SF to NYC. I dropped my subscription and never looked back.
As for Oliver Anthony —he might be this generation’s Phil Ochs...
Yeah but Ray and friends had hope ......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvfIePDbgY
Oh man, that’s beautiful......
Yeah, I give Rolling Stone about as much legitimacy as I do Mother Jones.
Sad to see what it has become. RS had a heck of a stable of writers back in the 70s, best of any magazine anywhere IMO. Might have been viewed as left-wing even then, but, to use the vernacular of the time, it was more anti-establishment.
Both Democrats and Republicans caught continuous flak. In the early 70s Hunter Thompson, called Hubert Humphrey “a shallow, contemptible, and hopelessly dishonest old hack.”
The best fiction series I’ve seen anywhere was Tom Wolfe’s work on American Astronauts in RS. Wolfe was on a 2-week deadline for each RS issue, and wrote what would later become the basis for his novel ‘The Right Stuff’.
Anyway, the stuff RS publishes now is on par with the garbage coming from HuffPost, which is to say it seems to be written by a bunch of 13 year old girls who source material from late night entertainers.
It’s kinda hysterical to see the difference between their genuine first-take reviews of albums and their fixed-up re-reviews after the bands they hated become some of the greatest bands of all time. Bands they absolutely hated include Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Queen (”the first truly fascist rock band”), Jimmie Hendrix,... pretty shameful... and these are the kind of bands you’d EXPECT them to like.
Grand Funk was another very popular group they hated. The RS critics were always wishing Hendrix would get more jazz-like.
As my dad would say “bird cage reading room material”
Yes, unfortunately Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and P.J. O’Rourke are long gone.
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