Rolling Stone: 40 years too many

In any case, whatever authority Rolling Stone might have claimed as a musical tastemaker has long since been eclipsed by savvier sources, beginning with Spin and expanding to include British imports such as Mojo and Q, specialty publications like No Depression and, now, the cyber punditry of Pitchfork, PopMatters and the rest. No matter, Wenner and company have moved on to higher pursuits. "Over the past six years, Rolling Stone has been unrelenting in our opposition to, and coverage of, the Bush administration for its domestic and international lawlessness," claim the editors in a letter to the readership. Funny, I thought Rolling Stone spent the last six years engaged in a relentless pursuit of Britney Spears, leaving the heavy, investigative lifting to Seymour Hersh over at The New Yorker. "Recalling The Summer of Relevance" Toronto Star