Posts tagged as Rolling Stone
Sociologists Still Read 'Rolling Stone'
"A provocative new study tends to confirm that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last several decades has become increasingly sexualized, even 'pornified.'... The new study uses the covers of Rolling Stone magazine from 1967 to 2009 to measure changes in the sexualization of men and women in popular media over time."
The 'Rolling Stone' Michele Bachmann Profile Aftermath (and Where Matt Taibbi is Right)
"Because brother, I have been there, when some would-be 'reputable' journalist who's just been severely ass-whipped by a relative no-name freelancer on an enormous story fights back by going on television and, without any evidence at all, accusing the guy who beat him of cheating. That's happened to me so often, I've come to expect it. If there's a lower form of life on the planet earth than a 'reputable' journalist protecting his territory, I haven't seen it." READ MORE
Matt "Mad Libs" Taibbi: It's Like [A Thing] with [Crazy Other Things]
By now, you will have tried to read Matt Taibbi's latest, which makes the case, which in my book was already made, that there should be criminal investigations at Goldman Sachs. I say "tried" because this is rough going. (And yes: Matt Taibbi, God bless!) And he's not wrong! Many of us have accustomed ourselves over the last few years to reading about regulatory whatnots and tranchey thingamabobs, and while it'll always be an uncomfortable second nature, at least writing about financial instruments follows some rules. But it's not the finance that's hard. For one, there's sentences like this one: "Each of the deals appears to represent a different and innovative brand of shamelessness and deceit." Now, I'm sorry the legal department made you say "appears to," even though it is technically accurate that we only know for sure that there is an appearance of deceit. But the helpful analogies! READ MORE
Rock Stars Need To Stop Writing Good Books
Oh, man! Bob Dylan is going to write six more books for Simon & Schuster! That's great, because his first one was so totally excellent. But also, six more? Really? Six? When am I going to have time to read six more books by Bob Dylan? (Especially seeing as I have to spend so much time watching his old music videos on YouTube.) READ MORE
Today's Gay on Gay Media Metaphor Violence
From Jann Wenner's tangled id and the camera of Robert Trachtenberg comes this portrait in Rolling Stone of young "Glee" star Chris Colfer surrounded by menacing homosexuals. How to say? Ah ha, this is how to say: "Ah, yes, the life cycle of the gay man, as the fresh-faced, impressionable polyp is transformed by the greasy, feral rut into his inevitably predatory leather daddy medusa form.... Because, of course, having a train run on you by hot guys in leather is NO ONE'S idea of a good time." (via)
What, They Couldn't Get Keith Richards?
"Rolling Stone has a new health columnist: none other than Ozzy Osbourne."
Here's Some of the 'Rolling Stone' McChrystal Profile
It's rough. I mean: "'Who's he going to dinner with?' I ask one of his aides. 'Some French minister,' the aide tells me. 'It's fucking gay.'" Update: We hear Rolling Stone will actually put this up later today; meanwhile lots of people are hosting PDFs, which is not really ethically fair but, well, the Internet! Here we are. Update update! And it's up!
Read the 'Rolling Stone' General McChrystal Profile
Once again, we're having that magical moment where the world-from the President on down-is up in arms over a scandalous piece of magazine writing that pretty much no one can read. Rolling Stone's profile of General McChrystal, the top man in Afghanistan, is now big-Drudge-banner, front-page Times news. But the magazine isn't on stands yet and most likely it won't be on the website for weeks, as is the top-down military strategy of RS owner Jann Wenner. (This was the bizarre situation we found ourselves in a couple years ago, when the magazine published the world's most compelling story of Britney Spears' meltdown.) [UPDATE Bad news! The McChrystal profile that was being hosted as a PDF by Politico has now been taken down, after much yelling by Rolling Stone publicists. Here's a small, fair-use excerpt.] Oh, and the content? "The amazing thing about it is there's no complaints from McChrystal or his staff about the administration on any substantive ground," reports Spencer Ackerman. It's just a bunch of boys being petty-though he predicts the General will be scolded but not fired. So, two strategies aren't working: McCrhystal's press strategy and Rolling Stone's web strategy. Over at RS, according to outside traffic measures, pageviews are way up-but unique visitors are way down over the course of the year. Lots of photogalleries, you know. UPDATE: Annnnd it's finally online! Mazel tov to the web people at Rolling Stone.
'Rolling Stone' Loses Mind, Folds Time and Space, Explodes, Crumples, Implodes
"'You hear it all the time: Rock is dead,' David Fricke writes in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on sale at newsstands today. 'But the current state of music is the same as it ever was: There is the good and the bad, and there is always plenty of the former, if you're willing to seek it out.' To prove the point, the Rolling Stone staff assembled a rundown of the 40 top reasons to be excited about music right now, starting with our cover stars, the Black Eyed Peas, a group that has perfected the art of global domination thanks to the brilliant maneuvering of philosophical leader Will.i.am." I understand nothing about this and I NEVER WILL. 1. "TO PROVE THE POINT"? 2. "STARTING WITH"? 3. "ROCK IS DEAD" BUT? Only LOLs are left!
