All the Uber-Snob's who say they don't read Rolling Stone Magazine....

[trumad]

Hey---you're missing one of the best publications for political muckraking, etc.

[upaloopa]

1. Back in the sixties my favorite magazine was

"Horse Shit" magazine. Now there was a really politically charged magazine. With the Freak Bros. always trying to find new ways to get the ultimate high.
"Got you're weekly load of Horse Shit yet?"

[Wait Wut]

2. I haven't read it in years.

But, it was a staple as a teen and young adult. I learned a lot from RS Mag. There were a few years (80s???) that they became a little tabloidish, but they recovered quickly.

[Rex]

3. It is the anti-WSJ.

And I think that is where the hatred comes from.

[trumad]

7. Taibbi---Hastings--RIP...really great writers.

[Rex]

14. Yes not a problem with stirring up all kinds of shit.

I remember reading my parents Rolling Stone mags when I was 10 and John Lennon and Yoko Ono were butt ass nekked on the cover!

And people are making a big stink about a terrorist on the cover?

Evidently they never seen the mag.

It's GREAT for critical thinkers.

[Warpy]

4. Their article on Tim and Beverly LaHaye

of about 10 years ago was particularly good, detailing the nuttiness of the rapture ready crowd and the kind of influence they were exerting on the White House and throughout Congress.

I generally don't read Rolling Stone for the same reason I don't read other celebrity mags. However, once in a while it's worth picking up because of a muckraking article.

[Zen Democrat]

5. Oh, so the snob didn't read Michael Hastings' story about Gen. McChrystal?

I don't believe it.

[Dreamer Tatum]

6. I don't like shitty music

so I don't read it.

[morningfog]

8. You just proved the OP's point.

It is much more than a magazine about music.

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. When you don't like shitty college kid music, that's all it's about.

I don't like looking at naked women, so I don't read Playboy. Am I snob for that too?

[morningfog]

12. You seem to be capable of accessing the internet.

You can choose what you read and control your experience. If you choose to not read important and interesting articles because the article is published in a magazine you turn your nose up at, that is your choice and your problem. You are only selling yourself short. I wouldn't call you a snob.

[trumad]

13. Huh?

That's all its about?

Wrong.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. No, but you're probably the unhappiest fucking dude on this whole website. Maybe you should

reconsider Playboy/Playgirl.

[Spazito]

30. Okay, that made me laugh out loud and scare my cat

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

33. :-P My apologies to the cat. nt

[southernyankeebelle]

9. Your right. I don't go out and buy the magazine but I will read an article online. It is

a pretty good mag.

[Uben]

11. Guess you could call me a Uben-Snob!

I haven't read RS in many yrs. Not to worry, I haven't read any magazines in many years. Don't know exactly what political muckraking is, but it doesn't even sound good, so I'll pass. I get all my info on the net, primarily here! I think I've stepped in some of that muckraking here before, but I have one of those shoe-scapers at the door. Voila!

[ieoeja]

19. Muckraking: (v) exposing the sleezy underside of things.

It is a good thing that used to be done by hard hitting journalists everywhere.

Then about 40 years ago Conservatives began handing out college scholarships to Young Republicans if they would major in journalism. At the same time Conservatives began buying up news media. Following the end of the Cold War, the CIA's propaganda team was cut and former members of that team were scooped up by Conservative media.

Even less biased media cut back on their investigative journalism for simple budgetary concerns: news is not profitable.

Rolling Stones is one of the few media outlets that still spends time and money on investigative journalism rather than just opinionated journalism.

[okieinpain]

15. their hasnt been any musicians worth reading about

Since the late eighties. Rap and rock both suck now.

[DontTreadOnMe]

16. What do you mean there are no good musicians anymore!

[okieinpain]

21. lol, i was already to go wkikpedia on you, but

You're right, my lol.

[RevStPatrick]

17. And here's a link to the article that everyone is talking about...

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/jahars-world-20130717

[bigwillq]

20. That article is actually pretty interesting.

If one is offended, that's fine. Don't read it or don't buy it. Pretty simple.

[okieinpain]

24. to me the cover makes the story more interesting

The kid does not look like my thoughts of what a terrorist would like. Hell he looks like he would have to beat the girls off with a stick.

[bigwillq]

27. And the article says he kind of had to

(beat girls off with a stick), although he seemed kind of shy around girls. In the article, I think a male professor called him "gorgeous".

But, really, what does a terrorist look like? Maybe that is one of the points of the article; that we can never really be sure who could turn into a terrorist.

[okieinpain]

28. i agree. n/t

[bvar22]

34. "The kid does not look like my thoughts of what a terrorist would like"

...and THAT is precisely why the Editorial Staff chose THAT photo for the cover.

For those who don't like their safe little World of pre-conceived notions and prejudices disturbed,
and instead prefer the warmed over droning comfort of MSM & Corporate Approved Talking Points rehashed Ad Nauseum,
Rolling Stone is NOT the magazine for you.

[laundry_queen]

36. +1 nt

[okieinpain]

37. i have to agree. its a great cover. n/t.

[Puzzledtraveller]

22. I've never picked up a copy

But only because it's too mainstream in relation to my music taste. Music being the only part of the publication I would be interested in.

[hughee99]

23. Rolling Stone has a circulation of about 1.5 million. Does that make everyone else

an "uber-snob"? That's a lot of people.

[Pholus]

25. I only read it for the articles...

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because they've got some of the best investigative reporting I've seen in US publications.

[pintobean]

26. You have that backwards. nt

[dmr]

29. I subscribed specifically for Matt Taibbi.

Any publication willing to stick it's neck out for Taibbi's research and analysis is worthy of my support.

This outrage, I'm certain, is instigated or flamed by those 1-percenters who aren't too happy with - not the latest cover, but with Rolling Stone itself. This cover gave them an opportunity to pounce.

Personally, I don't care for the cover, but there are lots of other covers I don't care for or understand.

[H2O Man]

31. I read it

for the pictures.

[NoPasaran]

32. Speaking as an ultra-snob

My magazine reading time is completely booked by The New Yorker, don't you know.