With a New Editor, Rolling Stone Rejects Its Inner Lad

[Syrinx]

Finally, Jann Wenner, the editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, is
filling a vacancy at the top of his masthead by elevating Will Dana,
one of his three deputy managing editors, to managing editor.

Mr. Wenner waited almost a year to promote Mr. Dana after Ed Needham,
the former managing editor, quit in July to edit a rival, Maxim.

"I wanted to get the feel of having my hands on all the details," Mr.
Wenner, 59, said by way of explaining his wait. "I enjoyed being
hands-on, and I intend to stay hands-on."

Mr. Wenner, who founded the magazine in 1967, said he was in the midst
of reasserting its "core values" - long-form journalism with an
emphasis on politics, culture and, of course, music. On the theory
that the "laddie" craze is wilting, the magazine has left behind
covers like "All-Girl Smackdown: Inside the World of Pro Catfighting"
and "The New Girl Next Door and Her Astonishing Sexual Requirements."
Instead, it featured John Kerry on the November cover and devoted the
March issue, the best-selling issue in six months, to the late Hunter
S. Thompson.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/business/media/16wenner.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. my "inner lad" knows the old rolling stone best.

welcome back, RS.

[enigmatic]

2. If they can get back to the RS of the early 70's...

that would be a huge step in the right direction. It's been an abomination for at least 15 years now..

[leftchick]

5. I have bought just about every issue since December.

It really has become what we used to know again. Excellent political articles in each issue. they also have a great correspondent in Iraq who has done some of the best writing I have seen out of there. I have finally decided to subscribe once again after many many years.

[Sivafae]

3. I have been reading some interesting information about Clear

Channel in that magazine. For instance, the price of tickets is forcing the industry to lower the prices. And, the best yet, CC has had to sell their live venue dept because of low sales. There goes the monopoly on music that CC has been trying to obtain.

[Heidi]

4. It's about time. I haven't bought RS in years, but may now. (nt)

[leftchick]

7. I have just decided to re-subscribe...

After reading a lot of great articles like this over the last few months. In last weeks issue there was an excellent and scary article about the Sunset Provision bush is putting into the budget.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7287564

The Quagmire

As the Iraq war drags on, it's beginning to look a lot like Vietnam

By ROBERT DREYFUSS


The news from Iraq is bad and getting worse with each passing day. Iraqi insurgents are stepping up the pace of their attacks, unleashing eleven deadly bombings on April 29th alone. Many of the 150,000 Iraqi police and soldiers hastily trained by U.S. troops have deserted or joined the insurgents. The cost of the war now tops $192 billion, rising by $1 billion a week, and the corpses are piling up: Nearly 1,600 American soldiers and up to 100,000 Iraqi civilians are dead, as well as 177 allied troops and 229 private contractors. Other nations are abandoning the international coalition assembled to support the U.S., and the new Iraqi government, which announced its new cabinet to great fanfare on April 27th, remains sharply split along ethnic and religious lines.
But to hear President Bush tell it, the war in Iraq is going very, very well. In mid-April, appearing before 25,000 U.S. soldiers at sun-drenched Fort Hood, in Texas, Bush declared that America has succeeded in planting democracy in Iraq, creating a model that will soon spread throughout the Middle East. "That success is sending a message from Beirut to Tehran," the president boasted to chants of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" from the troops. "The establishment of a free Iraq is a watershed event in the global democratic revolution." Staying on message, aides to Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, later suggested that U.S. forces could be reduced from 142,000 to 105,000 within a year.

In private, however, senior military advisers and intelligence specialists on Iraq offer a starkly different picture. Two years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq is perched on the brink of civil war. Months after the election, the new Iraqi government remains hunkered down inside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, surviving only because it is defended by thousands of U.S. troops. Iraqi officials hold meetings and press conferences in Alamo-like settings, often punctuated by the sounds of nearby explosions. Outside the Green Zone, party offices and government buildings are surrounded by tank traps, blast walls made from concrete slabs eighteen feet high, and private militias wielding machine guns and AK-47s. Even minor government officials travel from fort to fort in heavily armed convoys of Humvees.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. "The New Girl Next Door and Her Astonishing Sexual Requirements."

Umm... link?

:)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. I've been pleasantly surprised...

with the articles they have published lately, perhaps it's time to get a subscription again.