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Rappers Rally for Miley Cyrus

Rappers Rally for Miley Cyrus

(AP) From Kanye to Pharrell, rap stars embrace CyrusBy MESFIN FEKADUAP Music WriterNEW YORKWhile Miley Cyrus has a batch of critics, there is a group rallying behind her and praising her as a vital talent: rappers. Pharrell produced several songs

Jerry Brown's California Pipe-Dream

Jerry Brown's California Pipe-Dream

California governor Jerry Brown is receiving a fair bit of good press lately, including a fanciful profile in the latest issue of Rolling Stone in which author Tim Dickinson credits Brown with a “miracle” turnaround. It’s typical leftist agitprop: no assessment

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi Flays Weiner

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi Flays Weiner

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi asked one of the more salient questions about the Weiner affair: “what the hell do you have to do to be disqualified from high-level politics in this country?” In a short piece titled “Electing Anthony Weiner

Rolling Stone Sales Up 20% Since 'Bomber' Cover

Rolling Stone Sales Up 20% Since 'Bomber' Cover

Music magazine Rolling Stone has realized an uptick of 20 percent in sales with an August issue that featured a flattering photograph of accused Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The cover image the magazine used was a self-taken portrait

Politico: 'Nothing Wrong with Rolling Stone's Tsarnaev Cover'

Politico: 'Nothing Wrong with Rolling Stone's Tsarnaev Cover'

Writing “Give. Me. A. Break.,” Politico media writer Dylan Byers published a strong defense of Rolling Stone Magazine’s decision to publish a glamour shot of surviving Boston Marathon bomber, Dzokhar Tsarnaev, on its cover. Byers makes the point that “countless

Zimmerman, Tsarnaev, and cultural suicide

In response to A New Low for Rolling Stone magazine: So let me get this straight: a filthy murderer who unquestionably butchered men, women, and children, as part of a war on Western civilization, gets a dreamboat Rolling Stone cover,

Matt Taibbi: All Journalism is Advocacy Journalism

Matt Taibbi is a left-wing writer from Rolling Stone. Today he writes in response to accusations that Glenn Greenwald is an advocacy journalist whose work is therefore suspect. It’s a long piece but here are a few highlights. And no

Serena Apologizes to Sharapova over Boyfriend Barb

Serena Apologizes to Sharapova over Boyfriend Barb

LONDON  (Reuters) – Serena Williams launched a charm offensive on Sunday as she sought to broker a truce with Maria Sharapova and calm the storm surrounding comments she made about a rape victim. On the eve of Wimbledon, where she