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Britney Spears and "Yes We Can": Why Rolling Stone Probably Shouldn't Have

Chez Pazienza | Posted 11.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Yes We Can, Britney Spears, Rolling Stone, Catchphrase, Barack Obama, Offensive Magazine Covers, Media News
Chez Pazienza

I can't be the only one who thinks that even if there's no parallel with larger events to be drawn from the Britney cover, the whole thing is just really fu**ing cheesy.

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Britney On Feeling Old, Dates, Her Son's Swearing

Rolling Stone | Posted 11.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Britney Spears takes the December 11 cover of Rolling Stone, out Friday. Here are some preview quotes via USA Today: Brit feeling like an old fart: "...

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Battle For The West: Colorado Voter Suppression Suit Settled; Provisional Ballots To Be Accepted

Ryan Rivera | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Mike Coffman, Voter Suppression, Voter Registration, Service Employees International, Rolling Stone, Mi Familia Vota, Battle for the West, Rolling Stone Magazine, Colorado Common Cause, Colorado, Obama, Mccain, Barack Obama, Seiu, Voting, Home News
Ryan Rivera

The Colorado Secretary of State's office has settled a lawsuit brought by voters' rights groups and the SEIU over what they claimed were illegal purge...

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GOP Endgame: Vote Suppression

Michael Carmichael | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Gop, Acorn, George H.W. Bush, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Gerald Ford, Voting Rights, Rolling Stone, Jimmy Carter, Obama-Biden, Barack Obama, Mccain-Palin, Voting Problems, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

The current charges against ACORN are frivolous distractions from what is a massive and threatening GOP campaign to distort the popular vote in key battleground states.

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McCain Wants to Be President: Those Who Know Him Best Express Alarm

Win McCormack | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Win McCormack, John McCain, Tin House, Pat Murphy, Arizona Republic, Time Magazine, Mccain Anger, Honor Bound, Mcnasty, John Cornyn, Central Arizona Project, Make Believe Maverick Mccain, Charles Keating, Mccain Grassley Fight, Rose Mofford, Rolling Stone, Richard Shelby, McCain Temper, Pete Domenici, Politics News
Win McCormack

Not for nothing did McCain carry the moniker "McNasty" during his prep school years. McCain's struggle with a volcanic and unstable temper has apparently been life-long.

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Rolling Stone's Format Shrinks After Four Decades

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 10.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Magazines, Rolling Stone, Print Media, Print Journalism, Waning Relevance, Jann Wenner, Media News

NEW YORK — Rolling Stone magazine is shrinking with the times. After more than four decades of standing out with a larger format than other mag...

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Rolling Stone: McCain The "Make-Believe Maverick"

Rolling Stone | TIM DICKINSON | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It...

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Rolling Stone Set To Debut Smaller, Sleeker Format

New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone New Format, Rolling Stone Magazine, Rolling Stone Smaller Format, Media News

Some packages like the curvaceous old Coke bottle become so iconic that they are recognizable at 30 paces. So it is with Rolling Stone, whose large fo...

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Heath Ledger Cannot Hear You Clap

Daniel Holloway | Posted 07.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Us Weekly, The Dark Knight, Rolling Stone, Etiquette, Heath Ledger, Ghostbusters, Batman, Movies, Entertainment News
Daniel Holloway

So no, I don't like the fact that Heath Ledger is dead, but I'm not going to clap when I see his name on a movie screen. Why? Because neither Heath Ledger nor the people who actually cared about him can hear me.

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Melissa Etheridge Responds to Guitarist Phil Keaggy: "I am So Sorry That the Quote in Rolling Stone Made it Sound Homophobic"

Mark Joseph | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Rolling Stone, Melissa Etheridge, Phil Keaggy, Christian Rock, Entertainment News
Mark Joseph

Rocker Melissa Etheridge responds exclusively to the Huffington Post regarding comments attributed to her in Rolling Stone about guitar virtuoso Phil Keaggy, homophobia, and Christian rock.

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Conde Nast Buying Rolling Stone? Rumor Propped Up On Charlie Rose Show

Folio: | Dylan Stableford | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

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Near the end of an otherwise unremarkable interview with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner (both of whom have dev...

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Barack Obama's iPod: Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma, Sheryl Crow, Jay-Z

AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment

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WASHINGTON — Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack O...

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My Interview with Matt Taibbi on His Book, the Media, the Election and His Spat with Erica Jong

Ben Cohen | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

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Ben Cohen

Matt Taibbi: "I think there was a lot of real anger there and I got caught up in that, I think unfairly because I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope."

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The Fight Is Over; The Unity Has Begun

Matt Littman | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rolling Stone, Hillary Clinton, Denver, Lauren, Barack Obama, Heidi, Politics News
Matt Littman

When Senator Clinton tells her supporters to embrace Obama, and she will, they will, because we all have one common goal: to put a Democrat in the White House.

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Are Escort Services Poised to Go Mainstream?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Women, Prostitution, Escort Services, Porn, Sex, Strip Clubs, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Porn Star Escorts, Porn Stars, Rolling Stone the Sex Queen of La, Rolling Stone, Entertainment News
Russ Wellen

Due to its prevalence on the Internet, porn has begun to gain acceptance with segments of society hitherto unacquainted with it, such as teenage girls.

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Rock Criticism 101: If you can't say something nice...

Bill Wyman | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment

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Bill Wyman

R.E.M. have consistently topped that stirring work, each successive release being so good as to make clear the flaws of the one before it.

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Smartest Drug Story of the Year?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Drugs, Drug War, Media, Rolling Stone, Drug Policy, Slate, Crack, Dea, Crystal Meth, War on Drugs, Lee Brown, Meth, Drug Enforcement Administration, Crack Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Quaaludes, Cocaine, Politics News
Maia Szalavitz

America lost the drug war not by making tactical errors-- but by picking the wrong enemy. Rolling Stone deserves credit for making a strong case for just how wrong that went.

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Britney Rejects Rolling Stone

New York Post | Richard Johnson | Posted 12.03.2007 | Media

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Britney Spears may have finally made a good decision. The train wreck, who hasn't done much publicity for her new album, "Blackout," besides her daily...

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My Conversation with Jann Wenner

Charlie Rose | Posted 11.28.2007 | Media

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Charlie Rose

2007-11-28-wenhfkjsdhf.jpgWenner said this presidential election is about change and talked about what this meant for the Democratic field.

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Jann Wenner On Impossibility Of Starting New Magazines, Expecting Twins With Partner

Business Week via Gawker | Posted 11.02.2007 | Media

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Rolling Stone and Us Weekly owner Jann Wenner and his partner, Matt Nye, (for whom he dropped his wife, Jane) are expecting twins in January, accordin...

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