The founder of Rolling Stone has been removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board after he said Black and women artists weren’t articulate enough to feature in his book https://t.co/YJGIDiVRiV
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 16, 2023
He seems to have been responsible for Ralph Steadman’s partnership with Hunter S. Thompson — not to mention introducing HST to a wider audience — and I’m sure there must have been some other good deeds in his long career. But Jann Wenner was never, IIRC, a sympathetic figure to the readers who made him a ‘celebrity’. (Anyone got a link to the Doonesbury duels between ‘Yawn’ and Duke?)
basically the only rule of book promotion is to get people to like you and/or find you interesting and wenner managed to do the polar opposite while self-immolating in record time
quite an achievementhttps://t.co/XNsQer78MT
— rat king ?? (@MikeIsaac) September 17, 2023
Stereogum has a link to the original NYTimes interview where Wenner let his mouth write checks his brain couldn’t cash:
Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: Yawn Wenner Ekes Out Another 15 MinutesPost + Comments (108)