The American Spectator, February 2, 2005
After much fruitless soul-searching Rolling Stone magazine last month announced it had a change of heart and would not after all run advertisements for
the New International Version of the Bible. Kent Brownridge, general manager of Wenner Media, told USA Today, "We are not in the business of publishing advertising for religious messages." This news
wouldn't have surprised anyone back in the '70s when Rolling Stone was still a counter-culture, drug-booster zine, but today's RS is about as edgy as an overripe watermelon, and has become little more
than a clone of the dozen or so other men's magazines (Blender, Vibe, Maxim, FHM) that ostensibly cover rock music. Evidently editor and publisher Jann Wenner had dark and disturbing visions of some
twenty-something slacker opening his magazine and rather than a reassuring condom or Planned Parenthood advertisement finding an ad for a Bible. Horrors!
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