Why the heck is Rolling Stone writing a cover story about Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? Short answer: to make money.Here is Hannah Sterberg's bio at Amazon:
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This is going to sound like bad advice, but Rolling Stone: no one reads you for “serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day.” They read you because they like rock and roll, and they like being cool.
Hannah Sternberg lives and works in Washington, DC. In 2009, she graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a major in Film and Media Studies and a minor in Writing Seminars, feeling like the most unemployable girl in the world.Born yesterday, apparently.
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Hannah. Allow me a brief historical point.
Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone. PJ O'Rourke, Annie Liebovitz, Matt Taibbi, Robert Altman, Cameron Crowe, Michael Hastings, Ralph Steadman and Lester Bangs wrote for Rolling Stone.
For fucks sake, even Kurt Loder wrote for Rolling Stone.
Are you starting to see the problems with your premise?
You could have a yellow circle labeled "Hannah Sternberg".
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This is going to sound like bad advice, but Rolling Stone: no one reads you for “serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day.”
Yeah, fucking ironically I have to go to a music magazine to get the only decent consistent coverage of the global banking clusterfuck.
Taking on Matt Taibbi was a great move.
Actually, she's right: that DOES sound like bad advice.
Yeah, fucking ironically I have to go to a music magazine to get the only decent consistent coverage of the global banking clusterfuck.
I buy "Juggs" magazine for its coverage of global warming, their coverage of the movement of massive warm fronts is unparalleled.
Jee-ziz, I was reading RS when it was all newsprint & you had to unfold it. And if someone my age had lost touch w/ the entire publishing & music promotion world & just sat around for 40 yrs. I could understand their thinking that RS was still for teen-aged muzik fans, but when a 20-nothing comes up w/ this crap I don't even know what to type.
What's the point? What in hell do they think they're proving other than what idiots they are?
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