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MTV Refuses To Allow “Rolling Stone” Reality Show To Die With Dignity

It’s been a month since the low-rated debut of MTV’s I’m From Rolling Stone, the reality show that gives viewers the chance to watch spoiled, self-entitled brats in their natural habitat. But the program’s few remaining fans are going to have a hard time keeping up with a series, as the network has apparently dumped it into a series of dead-zone time-slots. MORE »

No, Krishtine. It's bitches don't know, not mothafuckers don't know.

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“I’m From Rolling Stone” To Applicants: There May Be Some Crying In Journalism

Ben Fong-Torres, the former Rolling Stone editor who was enshrined in Almost Famous, weighs in on the I’m From Rolling Stone intern pool and their journalism-light backgrounds: These are the best and brightest out of 2,000 applicants? Of course not. MORE »

Whoa whoa whoa, odub. The students from SF State (Russell and Krishtine) may act like morons, but there's a real journalism department there too, until recently chaired by John Burks, a former RS editor (who yes, is not too fond of the current state of the mag). As a matter of fact, the SF State J-department gives actual training in journalism, whereas at Berkeley there's a Graduate School of Journalism, which focuses more on media studies than practicing the actual craft. I've run into more than one Berkeley journalism "graduate" who recoiled from the thought of doing actual reporting and writing.

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