WFB: Rolling Stone‘s founder is putting the iconic magazine up for sale amid declining revenue and a damaged journalistic reputation in need of repair.
Jann Wenner started Rolling Stone in 1967, and the magazine spent decades as a leading tastemaker and stage for up-and-coming writers. But now he is looking to sell his controlling stake, the New York Times reports.
Wenner’s 27-year-old son, Gus, currently president and chief operating officer of parent company Wenner Media, has come up with plans for selling the magazine after off-loading many of the company’s assets. MORE
Dr. Hook hardest hit…
Saw three copies over 5 decades, never bought it or bought into what they were selling.
LBS..ROFLMFAO! Brilliant sir. The wages of Libtardism is death.
Does it come in two ply? Maybe someone needs some cheap ass wipes.
A nuther magazine that’s worth about a buck that some wealthy 0.1 percenter Leftist will over-pay for simply to use as his personal blog… or smoking papers.
I have $12 with an option for whatever is in my car’s ashtray subject to a positive outcome in their pending UVA defamation lawsuit.
The klowns who bought the NYT, Time/Newspeak, WaPo, ABC, Disney, and those other propagandistic rags might be interested … calling Josef Goebbels … calling Josef Goebbels … courtesy phone!
izlamo delenda est …
Good riddance – RS has not been about the cutting edge of music, rather a political rag that had the audacity to give the surviving Boston bomber rock star cover treatment. ‘Bout time it went down.
I think CNN should buy it for their hard copy edition.
China will buy it.
remember when you went to college and sent in one of those subscription cards to rs and checked the “bill me” box ?
I do.
never read much of it but it made a great coffee table magazine to use for a coaster. held a six pack easy.
Is that woman wearing a pro-cannibalism t-shirt?
The last time I read Rolling Stone was after I read the newest copy of OMNI.
Good! Maybe he’ll quit screwing up the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Print is dead…Has been since Al Gore invented the internet…
My favorite Mag was Powerboat…It took them two months to
publish an issue….You can have the same story and pics up in
15 minutes online…I still have 10 years or so of the old
ones…Bathroom readers.
Newsweek sold for $1, so you’ve got your work cut out for you, Jann.
Hey, maybe they can merge with NYT – like sears & Kmart, and watch both go down the shitter together
I’d buy it in order to give Wenner and his employees a taste of their own medicine.
I bid $100.00. And I’ll recoup that after I fire the presstitutes and sell off the assets (desks, computers, etc) for pennies on the dollar.
Hell, even if I don’t recoup my $100.00, it will be money well spent to oversee the closure of this rag.