Thursday, July 18, 2013

Through Being Cool

Hannah Sternberg:
Why the heck is Rolling Stone writing a cover story about Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? Short answer: to make money.

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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.
Here is Hannah Sterberg's bio at Amazon:
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.

Here is a diagram illustrating areas of overlap pertinent to the issue.

7 comments:

mikey said...

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?

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

You could have a yellow circle labeled "Hannah Sternberg".
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fish said...

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.

Substance McGravitas said...

Taking on Matt Taibbi was a great move.

tigris said...

Actually, she's right: that DOES sound like bad advice.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

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.

M. Bouffant said...

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?