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'Rolling Stone' Hit With Round of Layoffs
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 6/17/15 | Erik Hayden

Posted on 06/17/2015 3:35:09 PM PDT by jimbo123

Wenner Media has laid off more than a dozen staffers on Wednesday across Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal magazines.

The cuts include multiple senior level edit staffers, including David Fricke, senior writer at Rolling Stone, Sasha Morrison, fashion director at Us Weekly, Albert Lee, special projects at Us Weekly and Kevin O'Leary, senior writer at Us Weekly.

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An editor not a part of the cutbacks: Sean Woods, the deputy managing editor who oversaw the discredited Nov. 2014 University of Virginia campus rape story.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: layoffs; liberalmedia; rollingstone
Wenner freeing up money to defend the UVA lawsuits by cutting staff.
1 posted on 06/17/2015 3:35:09 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Layoffs in this roaring Obama Economy?

Say it isn’t so...


2 posted on 06/17/2015 3:36:35 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: jimbo123

and to such nice wholesome people also.


3 posted on 06/17/2015 3:38:19 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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It appears they ARE gathering moss.


4 posted on 06/17/2015 3:39:11 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: jimbo123

Chickens. Roost.


5 posted on 06/17/2015 3:40:25 PM PDT by vladimir998
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Wenner freeing up money to defend the UVA lawsuits by cutting staff.

It is hard to keep from thinking this might have something to do with the UVA thing, but (a) they'll never admit it, and (b) the old-line media ain't doin' so hot these days.

6 posted on 06/17/2015 3:40:34 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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I’m sure the big salary liberal editors who got axed are thrilled that their former salaries will be going to pay for the lawyers to defend the UVA lawsuits.


7 posted on 06/17/2015 3:41:10 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Lesseeee...a dozen Rolling Stone staffers .....

That comes to a total loss of around six hundred IQ points, give or take a couple.


8 posted on 06/17/2015 3:52:13 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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I hope this magazine dies painfully.

I read a copy waiting at an office.
They had a really extreme pro-abortion article that totally demonized conservatives — what’s that doing in a music mag?


9 posted on 06/17/2015 4:17:31 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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They’ve been doing that stuff for many, many years now. Their spiral into oblivion is inevitable at this point.


10 posted on 06/17/2015 4:18:43 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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Not sure if anyone I know reads that fish-wrap any more. Back in the 60s, it had some good rock and roll inside stuff.


11 posted on 06/17/2015 4:32:40 PM PDT by jaz.357 (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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.....and hunter thompson


12 posted on 06/17/2015 4:34:18 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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LMFAO ,,,, couldn’t happen to a meaner group of libs ,,,,, I love it !!!!! good news !!!!!


13 posted on 06/17/2015 4:35:35 PM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: 0bamanomics is the equal distribution of adolescent propaganda & indoctrination :-)
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Every time a lib loses its job, Another Angel Gets Its Wings.


14 posted on 06/17/2015 5:08:07 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
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Pelusi would say these leftist hack editors have been liberated from employment.


15 posted on 06/17/2015 5:15:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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If they can boost advertising revenue, they can save those jobs. They just need a really big story to draw a lot of attention to their in-depth reporting. Maybe they could find a photogenic female victim of a violent frat boy crime. That should work.


16 posted on 06/17/2015 6:23:19 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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They fired a long time music writer but probably kept 3 political writers on staff.

Rolling Stoned has about a much to do with music as Music Television MTV does.


17 posted on 06/17/2015 7:50:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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Hunter Thompson, Cameron Crowe, P.J. O’Rourke.... It used to have some good writers.

BTW, do you know that Jann Wenner came out as gay, left his wife for a man?


18 posted on 06/18/2015 12:23:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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