I don't think I have read much from Rolling Stone since the 1980s. I've seen Wenner interviewed several times and he can come across poorly. Magazines seem like a thing of the past with the internet. Same with newspapers. I do think that journalism as a whole has suffered because of this. We seem to get more opinion and opinion about other people's opinions more than anything else. That has become the focus of the news cycles. It seems less about the events or facts and more about what opinions people have about the events or facts. 

The Right has embraced this completely and they only care about opinion now. They have gone as far as you can just make something up and then endlessly spew opinion on whatever you made up. And that passes as news for them. 

With something like Rolling Stone where they reported on music and pop culture for the most part, well, there is not much to report on in those areas anymore. Musicians, actors, all have their own pages and people can interact with them all day long. So, not much need to do an interview with them. 

I think the younger generation has far less interest in an album than they do just hearing a song. So, album reviews are not much of a thing now. 

I think we lived through the times where music and movies and pop culture were a thing and celebrity from these things was interesting because your access to these people was limited to an interview in a magazine or on television. Now these people are on social media and you hear about every little thing they do. Plus a musician or actor now competes with social media influencers and all that. 

My goddaughter, who is a bright and talented kid, she was/is more into these social influencers than any musician or actor. I think because they are so interactive and she has back and forth with them. I did not know these influencers make public appearances and kids flock to them, until she explained that to me. 

I can't see a magazine like Rolling Stone writing about these "celebrities" and really, I think they are probably a bigger deal now than people that have a talent or skill. 

Maybe this all seems a tangent but I guess what I am getting at is, what place does a magazine like Rolling Stone have in today's society? Probably, it helps show the passage of time and the force of change on our culture in how irrelevant it has become. 

I still go to the book store, Barnes and Noble, and marvel that there is a giant magazine section there still and wonder who is reading all of these magazines. There must be a market for them if there are still as many as there are.