Posted on 08/20/2004 8:24:51 AM PDT by johnnyjumpstart
I received a free, unsolicited, copy of Rolling Stone magazine in the mail yesterday which was accompanied by an offer for 4 more free issues. Sounded like an nice offer until I paged thru the magazine & saw it was filled with Anti-Bush articles and ads! It had more anti Bush information in it than it did music industry news! I bet the 4 free issue offer is an attempt to get their anti bush propaganda into all of the homes of America between now and election day!
I didn't know they were still in business.
Unfortunately, yes. I got a free subscription 3 years ago for 12 issues and the damn things keep coming...I haven't paid them a dime, thankfully. I use them to paint on, line the cat litter box, all kinds of stuff!
Wonder who their subscription base profile looks like.
Rolling Stone isn't the only one that has become nothing more than a Democratic propaganda rag.
A couple of months ago I picked up a Vanity Fair in a waiting room and was surprised how most of it was bash bush articles. I used to read it years ago and there was an article or two at times with a political slant but now 90% of the magazine is bash bush.
I blame the New York social elite for ruining all the old mainstream magazines. If these reporters and publishers was living in Omaha or Indianapolis there wouldn't be the leftist slant there is now.
Did they advertise the album I saw on Barnesandnoble.com the other day-'Rock Against Bush'?
I wish they'd send me a free issue; I need extra paper to put in the cat's litter box.
Rolling Stone hasn't been relevant since the Nixon administration.
I got it for a year when an ex-gf said there wasn't anything to read in my place (500+ books, Sports Illustrated, Cigar Afficionado). So I got Rolling Stone. The first issue was, as I expected, so much crap. Now, a year later, she's out of my life, but RS keeps coming back, like a wart.
Plus, the mag has been noteworthy since the early 80's. I nearly puked when I saw an issue in the late 90s called the "Hot Issue" in which they list various 'hot' cultural items. They actually had a category called "hottest marketer" where they had a write-up for some dickweed mba. The hippies that originally wrote for RS must have been rolling in their graves. Can yo ujust picture Hunter S. Thompson writing about the 'hottest marketing hump.' (actually I would read that.)
The free issues are used to boost their circulation figures so they can sell and charge more for the ads.
I know this because my son got a free subscription and they end up in front of the "throne".
That's why I stopped reading Rolling Stone in 1992.
You may be right - OR....
I have been receiving several unsolicited magazines lately. They all started with one free subscription to a newly published magazine last year.
What I have found out is that many magazines are now giving free subscriptions (anywhere from 3 months to a year or more) just for the asking (or the opt-in on some web sites "Freebie" offers). This serves the magazine publisher by increasing the circulation, thus making the mag more attractive to advertisers.
It's a way to artificially inflate numbers to jack up (or jump start) ad sales.
The timing of your freebie sure does seem convenient, though.
Rolling Stone... Yawn. The kind of magazine you read while waiting at Supercuts or the Dentist office. The kind of magazine where you skip over the articles (knowing they're all BS) and look for pictures of hot chicks or truck ads.
Rolling Stone has been terrible about covering music for a long time (too many TV and movie stars on the cover for my tastes) and their politics are even worse. And they can't seem to figure out why they're losing readers to Blender. Maybe it's because Blender actually still writes about music, and doesn't force-feed anti-Bush stuff to its readers.
The New York Slimes has let anti-Bush hatred extend to the crossword puzzle, which was never political before. Yesterday's puzzle required you to get the US out of the answer before it would fit.
Exactly. They think they are so clever, assaulting us from every side.
As a music fan, I thought I would enjoy your magazine. However, as a conservative Republican, I am appalled. You are nothing more than a 527 for the John Kerry campaign and the Democratic Party, I wish to cancel and get a full refund of my subscription cost.
BTW, as Alice Cooper said, anyone listening to a rock star (or Rolling Stone Magazine) on who to vote for is a moron...
Dunno if I'll get a response. The letter was better written and longer, but you get my drift.
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