Booting the Bible - Rolling Stone hits new low

(From U.S.A. Today)

Newspaper advertising was my primary career for twenty plus years, so I'm well aware of how arbitrary and oft times stupid the managers can be about what they will and won't accept as advertising in their publications. I've gone to the mat more than once for an advertiser caught between the prejudices of small minded men and good common sense or even good taste. Granted, sometimes there are legal considerations that the publisher must be aware of that the advertiser has little concern about, but I can't see any of these problems with the above ad and its related copy. Rolling Stone, a news/magazine that I've often praised over the years for its forward thinking approach to the world of the young adult and teen, has finally shown that it has lost not only its edge, but its collective mind as well. Perhaps its time has now come and gone. Does anyone really care anymore what Rolling Stone thinks, or is it one more leftover of a bygone era? How 'bout if everyone just didn't buy the February issue of Rolling Stone in which the ad was originally scheduled to appear?

10 total comments.

Posted by Anonymous:

I guess glamourizing drug addicts and ridiculous behavior by spoiled over payed idiots is more along their moral ground

Wednesday the 19th of January 2005 @ 11:54 AM

Posted by birdwoman:

As a subscriber to CMJ (college music journal), I sometimes get pelted with free issues of magazines for youts. Rolling Stone sent me a copy in January.

There was nothing about music there. It was all politics and stupid Paris Hilton entertainment stuff.

Never again will I open a copy of that tripe.

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Wednesday the 19th of January 2005 @ 12:57 PM

Posted by Wendy:

No never would I buy a copy of rolling stone, if I did have a copy I would probably not read it and just use the pages for my bird to crap on.

Wednesday the 19th of January 2005 @ 8:31 PM

Posted by Jessie:

Silly them! Wanting to choose what ads they run? Obviously an evil, immoral magazine.

Thursday the 20th of January 2005 @ 7:40 AM

Posted by Martin:

I read the same news on CNN.com I was a little disappointed that RS would make that decision. But then I noticed in the article that the ad was shown by MTV and other places. Rolling Stone is a NON-RELIGIOUS magazine about music and popular culture. Do you think they are going to run ad's for SPIN mag? What baffles me is that people are surprised and upset about this decision. If you are looking to RS for spiritual food, then you need to reevaluate what you are reading. The Bible will still be the highest selling book with or with out RS.

Thursday the 20th of January 2005 @ 7:52 AM

Posted by Jules:

I love evil, immoral magazines. As a marketer I know what they are coming from and it would have been a wrong decisions to run this ad.

Thursday the 20th of January 2005 @ 2:19 PM

Posted by tomharper:

According to the freemarket free-enterprise slogans that conservatives worship, Rolling Stone is It. Plus, when's the last time the Bible wrote about Pantera or Superjoint Ritual or Shadows Fall or Kill Switch Engage or Slayer?

Sorry, conservatives are the moneylenders that Jesus drove away from the temple.

Buh Bye.

Friday the 21st of January 2005 @ 3:03 AM

Posted by frstlymil:

Well, they are no worse than the major networks who refused to run an add for the United Church of Christ because the ad was "too controversial" for depicting people of color mixed in with white people and two women standing next to each other who might or might not be a couple - or sisters - or friends or relatives, who knows...everyone's a hypocrite when it comes to fear of financial backlash from corporate sponsors.

Friday the 21st of January 2005 @ 11:27 AM

Posted by Scott C. Smith:

So much for capitalism, eh? Somehow, I doubt conservatives would raise much of a fuss if the "National Review" decided not to run an advertisement for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Doesn't "Rollng Stone" have the right not to run the ad? I guess not.

Saturday the 22nd of January 2005 @ 7:33 PM

Posted by tomharper:

Death to those Godless heathens at Rolling Stone! Why aren't they singing hymns like other red-blooded American Patriots!

What is God's world coming to?!?!?!?

Tuesday the 25th of January 2005 @ 2:11 AM