From the start, his Rolling Stone magazine was a bastion of white male privilege
ne of my older brothers subscribed to Rolling Stone magazine in its early years, and while I saw women and musicians of color gracing its cover from time to time, they certainly seemed like a rarity.“Clapton, the Stones, Clapton, the Stones,” was the way a friend of mine recently characterized the magazine covers, for decades, after its start in 1967, when co-founder Jann Wenner was calling the editorial shots at what quickly became rock’n’roll’s bible.
Why no Joni Mitchell, for example, since she surely is one of the great singer-songwriters, most original thinkers and most brilliant lyricists of the rock era? Wenner dismissed the suggestion.Other women, say, Madonna, Erykah Badu, Carole King, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner? And if you’ve followed the inductees into the Rock hall , it will sound all too consistent. By 2019, fewer than 8% of inductees were women, according to research cited in the Times.
As for Rolling Stone magazine’s worst journalistic debacle, the retracted investigation of an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia , Wenner’s comments here are almost the most ludicrous of all.
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