Another one bites the dust.
After nearly 40 years, Rolling Stone magazine is whittling down its trademark size. It will now look like every other magazine on the stands.
Ugh.
When I was 15, I had a subscription to Rolling Stone (thanks to the kindness of my mom, thanks mom!). I read it cover to cover every month, drinking in the journalism, the hot, hot interviews and the hip quality of it all.
I stopped subscribing when they went from newspaper print style to glossy pages. It wasn't the paper, it was the quality of the product. Rotten.
So to be fair I haven't read Rolling Stone in a good long while. But now, this nail in the coffin.
The magazine that was so subversive, so out there, so of-the-now is, at its heart, just another corporate owned mass-produced media product.
*sigh*
We've come a long way since RS 1:
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