The long-time cultural partisanship of Rolling Stone magazine was confirmed by its founder Jann Wenner’s recent assertions of race and gender bias. To promote his latest memoir, The Masters, Wenner gave an interview to fawning New York Times writer David Marchese, spouting previously hidden prejudices of the media elite. Wenner, 77, retired from actively running Rolling Stone in 2019 and has since been out of the media wars but now seems comfortable enough to admit his biases as a matter of record. That’s why The Masters features Wenner’s confabs with only seven white male rock stars: Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pete Townshend. It’s old news to RS readers, but he violated the diversity-inclusion-equity (D.I.E.) agenda.
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