RollingStone
American monthly magazine that was founding in the late 60's San Francisco, and focused on music and pop-culture.
Created: 2019-03-03
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They were founded in 1967, and were slow to grow out of that era (probable because of the Publishers biases: perpetual hippies at heart, while the world and music left them behind). I don't mind their bias in music, as Classic rock of that era was pretty great, but it's hard to pretend you're "with it", when you just aren't. And even then, they did things like dismiss Led Zeppelin when they were relevant (only catching on that they were an iconic force in 2006 and a cover story, "the Heaviest Band of All Time"). They missed hip-hop, panned heavy metal, and as recently as 2003 their "100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time" had named only two female musicians.
More than that for me was as Jonah Goldberg put it, they had "essentially become the house organ of the Democratic National Committee"[1]. And even when they aren't just parroting the DNC, they're known most for their journalistic screw-ups, like:
Rolling Stone stupidly decided to put a glam-pic of convincted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on their cover, which drew widespread criticism that the magazine was "glamorizing terrorism", and was a "slap in the face to the great city of Boston".
Not learning the lessons of their 2013 Tsarnaev cover fiasco, they put another group of divisive anti-American women on the cover. Granted they are representatives in congress of fanatical or clueless districts. But this is about as enlightened as putting George Wallace, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, and FDR on a cover about liberal tolerance towards minorities.
American monthly magazine that was founding in the late 60's San Francisco, and focused on music and pop-culture. But they forgot their goal is to entertain, became full of themselves, and started preaching instead of entertaining. Music folks preching on stuff they don't understand, becomes boring ignorance.
Rolling Stone decided to pretend that denouncing one pathological liar's fake claims (Amber Heard in her fake abuse trial) denigrates all Women/Survivors/Victims. When the reality is that supporting a liar like Heard, over real survivors, dilutes and dennigrates their cause. But RollingStone appeals to teenagers of many ages, so expect cheap and shallow shots.
List of non-credible women who claimed that Trump sexually assaulted them: E. Jean Carroll, Jessica Leeds, Kristin Anderson, Jill Harth, Cathy Heller, Temple Taggart McDowell, Karena Virginia, Melinda McGillivray, Rachel Crooks, Natasha Stoynoff, Jessica Drake, Ninni Laaksonen, Summer Zervos, Juliet Huddy, Alva Johnson, and Cassandra Searle.
💩 Rolling Stone published "A Rape on Campus" that describes a purported gang rape of Jackie Coakley by 7 frat brothers (Phi Kappa Psi) at the University of Virginia (UVA), as part of an initiation rite. This fed a false "Campus Rape" lynch-mob that suspended the fraternity, vandalized their FratHouse, and impugned the character of many innocents: who sued and won.
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