{"id":218064,"date":"2021-04-03T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rolling-stone-hits-back-amid-calls-to-boycott-magazine\/"},"modified":"2021-04-03T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:47:07","slug":"rolling-stone-hits-back-amid-calls-to-boycott-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rolling-stone-hits-back-amid-calls-to-boycott-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rolling Stone hits back amid calls to boycott magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Rolling Stone hits back amid calls to boycott magazine<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Rolling Stone is punching back after a blog post claimed that the magazine \u201csold out\u201d to President Trump and the Saudis under its owner Jay Penske led to calls for a boycott. <\/p>\n

The story, by \u201cThe Hill Reporter\u201d<\/a> dubbed \u201cThe Demise of Rolling Stone: How A Legendary Magazine Sold Out to Trump and the Saudis,\u201d ignited calls across the Twitter<\/a>verse to #BoycottRollingStone on Friday in part by resurfacing old information about magazine\u2019s parent company\u2019s ties to the Saudis. <\/p>\n

The story also blasted the Penske Media CEO for his ties to Trump, although it app<\/a>eared to conflate the media mogul with his auto-racing magnate dad, Roger Penske. <\/p>\n

\u201cJay is a high-profile GOP donor who fired tenured and experienced journalists, then hired hacks to write tabloid level pieces that leaned so far to the right, he was awarded a Presidential Medal from the former guy himself,\u201d the post said. <\/p>\n

In fact, it was the elder Penske who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. The younger Penske, by contrast, helped throw a 2016 election viewing party with high-profile supporters of Hillary Clinton, according to WWD. <\/p>\n

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Rolling Stone\u2019s rebuttal, however, focused solely on The Hill Reporter\u2019s claims that a yet-to-be-published piece on MeidasTouch, a left-leaning political action committee focused on stopping Trump\u2019s reelection, was politically motivated. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe attacks being made against Rolling Stone\u2019s journalistic integrity and our reporter are entirely unfounded and false,\u201d said Brooke Jaffe, a spokeswoman for Rolling Stone parent Penske Media Corp.\u00a0\u201cRolling Stone\u2019s\u00a0journalists pursue the truth and hold power to account without input from anyone outside our editorial staff.\u00a0Any notion that Rolling Stone is pro-Trump is demonstrably false, as a review of our coverage would reveal.\u00a0No tactics\u00a0will persuade us from\u00a0pursuing\u00a0our core mission:\u00a0to\u00a0deliver\u00a0the\u00a0news<\/a>\u00a0responsibly to our audience.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A source said The Hill Reporter story by Tara Dubin kicked off after award-winning freelance journalist Seth Hettena \u2014 who has bylines in The New York Times and New Republic and who wrote an incisive piece for the glossy last year on Blackwater founder Erik Prince \u2014 reached out to MeidasTouch for commentary on his story. <\/p>\n

The group asked for an extension to respond, which was granted it. But instead of providing a statement to the reporter, MeidasTouch<\/a> took to Twitter<\/a>, posting a lengthy reply, calling the story \u201cdefamatory.\u201d<\/p>\n

In making the case that Rolling Stone is conducting a \u201csmear campaign\u201d against the PAC, Dubin rehashed a subject that has become touchy since the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018.<\/p>\n

In February 2018, Penske Media \u2014 which also owns Variety, Women\u2019s Wear Daily and The Hollywood Reporter \u2014 received a $200 million investment by a Saudi Arabian public fund. <\/p>\n

The funding came at a time when the fund was making big investments in media and entertainment firms, but many beneficiaries returned the funds amid questions about Khashoggi\u2019s death following his trip<\/a> to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Penske has remained silent on the investment stake, even after US intelligence reports confirmed that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself ordered the reporter\u2019s execution. <\/p>\n

The blog post made the rounds on Twitter with some users retweeting an image from Dubin\u2019s article, which shows Roger Penske receiving the medal of honor from Trump in 2019, with his son, Jay, watching in the background. <\/p>\n

Democratic writer and editor Grant Stern\u00a0tweeted<\/a>, \u201cRolling Stone used to be the home of Hunter S. Thompson, now people are tweeting #BoycottRollingStone after their ties to Trump and the Saudis have been exposed.\u201d <\/p>\n

Even \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d actress Rosanna Arquette\u00a0jumped in<\/a>\u00a0on the call to action, tweeting simply: \u201c#BoycottRollingStone,\u201d as the hashtag began to take off going into the weekend. <\/p>\n

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