Comments on: Rolling Stone Is Dead To Me http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/ By the Bowie fans, for the Bowie fans. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:38:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Webmaster http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/#comment-179 Webmaster Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:03:15 +0000 http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/#comment-179 I hear you, but I do think RS is left when Dems appear on the cover like <a rel="nofollow" href="http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/cms/2004/large/RS_961_-_John_Kerry_Cover_-_gallery_image_-_lg.6562863.jpg">this </a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://i.rollingstone.com/assets/rs/7/2047815/images/00339611_lg.jpg">this</a>, Republicans like <a rel="nofollow" href="http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/2/4/4/4/10024442-10024444-large.jpg">this</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/6/5/9/12059566-12059568-large.jpg">this</a>. I wouldn't say they are a part of any larger conspiracy, they just seem really desperate to have an influence on the idiot readers. Point is, even if I thought they were dead-on with their facts and opinions, I still wouldn't consider them a legitimate news source. They need to quit trying. It's like gameshows on MTV. I hear you, but I do think RS is left when Dems appear on the cover like this and this, Republicans like this and this. I wouldn’t say they are a part of any larger conspiracy, they just seem really desperate to have an influence on the idiot readers. Point is, even if I thought they were dead-on with their facts and opinions, I still wouldn’t consider them a legitimate news source. They need to quit trying. It’s like gameshows on MTV.

]]> By: saudade http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/#comment-177 saudade Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:36:16 +0000 http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/#comment-177 I don't find RS so left-leaning as I do purposefully ignorant, which goes hand-in-hand with their status as sycophantic musical tools. And there is a big difference between left-leaning and ignorant (I promise!) While I agree with you about the hilarity that is RS being any kind of news outlet, musical or no, I'm very cautious about labeling RS part of the liberal conspiracy to take our youngsters aside and taint their thoughts about Republicans. But I think you've hit the nail on the head with the going with the tide. They do this with their completely skim-the-surface, more style than substance rah-rah music reviews, why not with politics? How many 15 year old emo kids (or adult RS readers, for that matter) are unapathetic enough to care about the intracacies of politics, and of those kids, how many actually can form a coherent thought that doesn't just amount to "war sucks, dude" and "keep your laws off my body?" Kids recognize that war does indeed suck, but it's apathy and a default to general ideas and statements about big issues that is why you see this phenomenon, not because the tools at RS may or may not be Bush-haters. If Gore was president and we were at war, we'd see some of the same phenomenon if he was as universally maligned (across all media outlets, valid or not) as Bush. RS doesn't want you to think, they want you to buy what they're told to market. Gaining ground with an apathetic reader by making politics a simple act of "war bad, global warming bad, [insert presidential name here] wants to draft you," etc. is a no-brainer. Simple is as simple does. I don’t find RS so left-leaning as I do purposefully ignorant, which goes hand-in-hand with their status as sycophantic musical tools. And there is a big difference between left-leaning and ignorant (I promise!)

While I agree with you about the hilarity that is RS being any kind of news outlet, musical or no, I’m very cautious about labeling RS part of the liberal conspiracy to take our youngsters aside and taint their thoughts about Republicans. But I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with the going with the tide. They do this with their completely skim-the-surface, more style than substance rah-rah music reviews, why not with politics? How many 15 year old emo kids (or adult RS readers, for that matter) are unapathetic enough to care about the intracacies of politics, and of those kids, how many actually can form a coherent thought that doesn’t just amount to “war sucks, dude” and “keep your laws off my body?” Kids recognize that war does indeed suck, but it’s apathy and a default to general ideas and statements about big issues that is why you see this phenomenon, not because the tools at RS may or may not be Bush-haters. If Gore was president and we were at war, we’d see some of the same phenomenon if he was as universally maligned (across all media outlets, valid or not) as Bush.

RS doesn’t want you to think, they want you to buy what they’re told to market. Gaining ground with an apathetic reader by making politics a simple act of “war bad, global warming bad, [insert presidential name here] wants to draft you,” etc. is a no-brainer. Simple is as simple does.

]]> By: Webmaster http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/#comment-176 Webmaster Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:50:46 +0000 http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/#comment-176 Main thing that annoys me about Rolling Stone is that they pretend to cover news outside of music, and they handle the two subjects completely differently. With music they are overanxious to go with the tide. "What's that, teens? You like Fall Out Boy? We love Fall Out Boy, too!" Whereas the political issues they try to cover are more left-leaning than Heather Mills on Jägermeister. "Also in this issue: more Republicans kicking babies!" How about trying to discover some new artists who are worth a listen, versus doing the record companies' job of marketing every next mainstream shitface in eyeliner? It's like each cover story about a pop culture icon is just a decoy to attract kids like moths to a light so they can take them aside and quickly tell them what else Bush has wrecked, ruined, misdone, neglected, and otherwised crapped upon. And I ain't saying he's a helluva guy. I'm saying it's hard enough getting news from actual news organizations, without hearing it from the would-be music rag that mindlessly supports anything ClearChannel plays on the radio. Main thing that annoys me about Rolling Stone is that they pretend to cover news outside of music, and they handle the two subjects completely differently. With music they are overanxious to go with the tide. “What’s that, teens? You like Fall Out Boy? We love Fall Out Boy, too!” Whereas the political issues they try to cover are more left-leaning than Heather Mills on Jägermeister. “Also in this issue: more Republicans kicking babies!” How about trying to discover some new artists who are worth a listen, versus doing the record companies’ job of marketing every next mainstream shitface in eyeliner? It’s like each cover story about a pop culture icon is just a decoy to attract kids like moths to a light so they can take them aside and quickly tell them what else Bush has wrecked, ruined, misdone, neglected, and otherwised crapped upon. And I ain’t saying he’s a helluva guy. I’m saying it’s hard enough getting news from actual news organizations, without hearing it from the would-be music rag that mindlessly supports anything ClearChannel plays on the radio.

]]> By: saudade http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/#comment-175 saudade Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:42:51 +0000 http://www.crackedactor.com/2007/05/31/rolling-stone-is-dead-to-me/#comment-175 I'm with one of the folks who commented on the original article -- there is a difference between "bad" and "challenging." Rolling Stone is, forever and unapologetically, bad. This entry shouldn't be merely filed under opinions, it should be given its own holy place in the cabinet of truth. Preach it, sister! I’m with one of the folks who commented on the original article — there is a difference between “bad” and “challenging.” Rolling Stone is, forever and unapologetically, bad.

This entry shouldn’t be merely filed under opinions, it should be given its own holy place in the cabinet of truth. Preach it, sister!

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