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No, because there is no such thing as "objective". Everybody has and everybody should have a point of view.

At best, what's considered "objective" is taking the more accepted worldview of your time, and reporting things while believing it some kind of law of nature -- in other words, that your reporting is just truth distilled, without any worldview involved. But there is always a worldview.

If on the other hand, you mean that despite having a worldview, you can still be reporting what (according to it) are bad things whether Trump or Clinton does them, or whether neo-nazis or antifa does them, or whether Weinstein or an angry PC mob does them, in other word, if it's possible not to be partisan, but an equal opportunity offender, then, yes, this is possible.

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The job would be made even easier if Rolling Stone went back to being about music, though, and tried to avoid talking about Trump or Clinton, and the like, except where strictly necessary for talking about music.

Rolling Stone was never solely about music, they always ran political reporting. In fact I would argue it's legacy is more known for the work of Hunter S. Thompson than their musical coverage.

The only times the magazine has gained interests has been solely due to their journalists and what they cover, rarely if ever music.

One of Hunter S Thompson's most famous works was a series of articles in Rolling Stone covering the 1972 presidential election of Nixon/McGovern. It was good stuff, very readable, and yet he was clearly biased towards McGovern (which was clearly an unpopular opinion as he ended up losing in one of the biggest landslide loses in presidential history).

Nothing wrong with their writers being political or biased. The bigger problem is whether they can talk about politics without being heavy handed, preachy, or trite, like much of politics being pigeon-holed into all forms of media today.

It seems many journalists today have lost their sense of humour and everything is overly serious and self-important. Especially when compared to the writings of HST vs what they put out today.

"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" is probably the best thing HST ever wrote. Find it, read it, don't take it all completely seriously, and you may learn something.

Music isn't created in a vacuum though. A lot of music/movies/books are created as a reflection of what is happening in the world around us, and makes a lot less sense without context.

Isn't that how it used to be? Now it's just LaLaLand

The only writer they have left worth reading is Matt Taibbi.

The thing is though, RS was never just about the music. In the late 60s/early 70s, music and politics were both huge topics for youth culture, and RS covered both.

E.g. Hunter Thompson's coverage of the '72 presidential race.

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