Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale
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#2I like to read about the 1960s counterculture in Europe and North America. It was always funny to see Rolling Stone in the list of "underground newspapers" of the Sixties, because for my generation, it has always been a completely ordinary and conventional magazine that you can buy anywhere.
Also amazing is that Time Out, which will strike most people today as an unremarkable and boring listing of events, was considered a key achievement of the London counterculture when it first came out. Apparently any countercultural vibe was gradually purged from it over the course of the 1970s.
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#3Was on and off reader of RS.
Their non/half apology for their University of Virginia rape story really turn me off.
They didn't seem to understand (or care?) what they did wrong and thus didn't really apologize.
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#4I like to read about the 1960s counterculture in Europe and North America. It was always funny to see Rolling Stone in the list of "underground newspapers" of the Sixties, because for my generation, it has always been a completely ordinary and conventional magazine that you can buy anywhere. Also amazing is that Time Out , which will strike most people today as an unremarkable and boring listing of events, was consid…
"You either die a counterculture or you live long enough to become the culture."
The young/anti-establishment people of the 60's and 70's are the old/establishment people of today.
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#5Was on and off reader of RS. Their non/half apology for their University of Virginia rape story really turn me off. They didn't seem to understand (or care?) what they did wrong and thus didn't really apologize.
I also do not think the author or editor were removed from their positions
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#6Was on and off reader of RS. Their non/half apology for their University of Virginia rape story really turn me off. They didn't seem to understand (or care?) what they did wrong and thus didn't really apologize.
Yes I used to respect them as a regular reader but after that non-apology, I viewed them as a more sophisticated Gawker.
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#7Was on and off reader of RS. Their non/half apology for their University of Virginia rape story really turn me off. They didn't seem to understand (or care?) what they did wrong and thus didn't really apologize.
I don't know when they asked the founder what his biggest regret was it was that story.
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#8Was on and off reader of RS. Their non/half apology for their University of Virginia rape story really turn me off. They didn't seem to understand (or care?) what they did wrong and thus didn't really apologize.
I also do not think the author or editor were removed from their positions
Why should they? Should everybody that makes a mistake in their job be fired?
The magazine retracted the story and apologized. The author apologized as well. The editor handed over their resignation (it was not accepted).
What do you want, to have them be some parriahs that never find journalistic work again?
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#9I like to read about the 1960s counterculture in Europe and North America. It was always funny to see Rolling Stone in the list of "underground newspapers" of the Sixties, because for my generation, it has always been a completely ordinary and conventional magazine that you can buy anywhere. Also amazing is that Time Out , which will strike most people today as an unremarkable and boring listing of events, was consid…
"You either die a counterculture or you live long enough to become the culture." The young/anti-establishment people of the 60's and 70's are the old/establishment people of today.
And, at the same time, there are no young/anti-establishment people of today of any consequence.
Not in any such numbers as to constitute an actual counter-culture anyway...
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#10Ironically reported in the Failing New York Times. :)