Rolling Stone shrinks, but grows

[TheSportsPredictor]

Beginning with the Oct. 30 issue, it will no longer be giant-sized. But Jann Wenner claims after shrinking to normal magazine says and adding 16-20 pages an issue, it will actually cost more to print.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/business/media/11mag.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

 

[pallister]

Hopefully we'll get more stories on awesome bands like The Jonas Brothers.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Some of us remember when RS was a quarterfold on newsprint with one color on the cover.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Do you still have your free roach clip?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Jann can now fellate Mick Jagger in a smaller format.

 

[Songbird]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

 

[Beaker]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

Taibbi is hilarious.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

William Greider.

 

[WaylonJennings]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

Taibbi is hilarious.

He's OK. I think he'd have a lot more credibility if he didn't call sitting U.S. Senators "cocksuckers" and "mother****ers." But that's his schtick, for better or worse.

 

[Songbird]

True, he does take liberties that way. But his overall storytelling has a good hook. If he doesn't have a story in RS I usually won't read that edition.

 

[WaylonJennings]

True, he does take liberties that way. But his overall storytelling has a good hook. If he doesn't have a story in RS I usually won't read that edition.

Some of their long-form reporting can be killer, though. The China surveillance story a couple months ago should win a national magazine award. On par with Evan Wright's "Generation Kill" stuff in terms of the best work they've done the last few years.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Jann can now fellate whatever Democrat agrees to an interview in a smaller format.

Fixed.

 

[BYH]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

Joe's Eats?

 

[pallister]

Doe's?

 

[Beaker]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

Taibbi is hilarious.

He's OK. I think he'd have a lot more credibility if he didn't call sitting U.S. Senators "cocksuckers" and "mother****ers." But that's his schtick, for better or worse.

I actually agree with you, and part of me wishes he wouldn't. Then again, he probably wouldn't be so funny.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Jann can now fellate whatever Democrat agrees to an interview in a smaller format.

Fixed.

Yeah, no argument there, either. But it's tough to beat the low-water mark of Jann's 5 star review of a putrid Jagger album that ended with "World, meet Mick Jagger: solo artist."

 

[Boognish]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

Taibbi is hilarious.

He's OK. I think he'd have a lot more credibility if he didn't call sitting U.S. Senators "cocksuckers" and "mother****ers." But that's his schtick, for better or worse.

I actually agree with you, and part of me wishes he wouldn't. Then again, he probably wouldn't be so funny.

Enjoyed his newest book, "The Great Derangement," in which he goes undercover to a Texas superchurch to become born again among other adventures in and out of Congress. Anybody else here read it? Thoughts?

 

[Beaker]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

Taibbi is hilarious.

He's OK. I think he'd have a lot more credibility if he didn't call sitting U.S. Senators "cocksuckers" and "mother****ers." But that's his schtick, for better or worse.

I actually agree with you, and part of me wishes he wouldn't. Then again, he probably wouldn't be so funny.

Enjoyed his newest book, "The Great Derangement," in which he goes undercover to a Texas superchurch to become born again among other adventures in and out of Congress. Anybody else here read it? Thoughts?

Just the excerpt in RS a while back, which I did enjoy. It's on my list to read, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

 

[RossLT]

Hopefully we'll get more stories on awesome bands like The Jonas Brothers.

I just got that issue and it is the first time RS has had a band that I have never heard of on the cover, who the hell are they? I didn't read the story.

 

[Boognish]

Love reading Taibbi.

Favorite all time story was when Wenner, O'Rourke, some other guy I can't remember and Thompson interviewed Bubba a few months before the '92 election in the back of some restaurant in, IIRC, Little Rock.

Taibbi is hilarious.

He's OK. I think he'd have a lot more credibility if he didn't call sitting U.S. Senators "cocksuckers" and "mother****ers." But that's his schtick, for better or worse.

I actually agree with you, and part of me wishes he wouldn't. Then again, he probably wouldn't be so funny.

Enjoyed his newest book, "The Great Derangement," in which he goes undercover to a Texas superchurch to become born again among other adventures in and out of Congress. Anybody else here read it? Thoughts?

Just the excerpt in RS a while back, which I did enjoy. It's on my list to read, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

Some parts are chilling, especially since the reverend, John Hagee, seems to everywhere in the news lately, from McCain jumping on board with him to Hagee's foreign policy push (CNN had a story today).