My Mother does not allow me to watch MTV…bummer!

slew…wow. watch it anyway, who gives about your mother…thats what i used to do back in the day.

Never mind what i just said, MTV SUCKS GIANT SPIDERMONKEY NUTS. watch fuse instead

wow, it looks like all those negative comments about elizabeth goodman got her canned. There is nothing stronger than the power of verbal, er, written criticism…Now whomever is writing for these blogs is too afraid to even take the credit. All credit goes to the source now – Rolling Stone is so desperate for “hip to the shuby” writers that they are having a contest to see who can talk the most shit…
COUNT ME IN!!

I’ll enter on one condition: the promise that I will never be asked to cover Fall Out Boy, Panic, or My Chemical Romance.

hmm. unless there’s an elimination match for the journalists, i don’t care about the show. MTV sucks anyway. btw, first act guitars SUCK, i feel sorry for whoever wins one. seriously, just because it looks like a gibson les paul does NOT mean its good…. at all.

Does it really take that nuch talent to write for Rolling Stone? I mean Davy Fricke’s pretty good but he’s had years of practice. I guess it must be difficult to attempt to write “seriously” about rich/spoiled, talentless, foppish celebrities without questioning your own sanity or the meaning of life.

And oh, Wanker, we were sooo desperately looking for your input on the state of musical affairs…too bad the popularity of emo means that we’ll lose the singular brilliance of yr voice forever…

I don’t think Elizabeth Goodman is gone, as she’s posted a few things today (and they run the RS author line all the time).

Rowr, I wasn’t attempting to give my “input on the state of musical affairs.” All I was saying is that I wouldn’t want to cover talentless, 3 power chord bands. It was a request, not a mission statement.

As far as the “popularity” of emo bands, you can expect it to fall once Jr. High girls realize that 60 bucks for a pair of Hot Topic “punk” jeans is somewhat steep. Sorry, I guess that was a statement.

Why would Jann Wenner call this tool Peter 3 times? He’s Jann Wenner dammit. If Peter wanted the job, he would have answered his phone the first time, not shotgunning a beer.

Hmm…

I might just have to give this a try…

jesus christ, does this show suck

Daaaaamn, tells you all you need to know. Rolling Stone has gone celebrity. ‘Win a position’. Sh’yeah right. What happened to good old freelancing UNTIL you were deemed good enough to be put on the roll? I sure as hell wouldn’t go through that humiliation JUST to write for RS, no matter how much I may want to…

What would my illustrious predecessor, Dr.Thompson, think?

It has been pointed out that, despite RS being perceived as THE music magazine, over here in the UK, the writing has been… kinda crap… lately. I wonder if the two are connected…? I’m only buying Skyscraper right now…

sign me up baby i’ve been waiting for this for ages!! i LOVE R.S.!!

Wow, for a young aspiring journalist, this contest is pretty cool. I just hope I have time with all my university work to complete the assignments!

At first i was little skeptical about this show. But when i realized that i could have a chance at a writing gig too i’m definitely going to tune in. Writing for Rolling Stone is my dream job! You can expect articles from me every Friday. I’m already a lowly copy-editor at a local newspaper in Tennessee trying to work my way up to a real journlsim job.. this just might be my chance. Thanks RS!!!!!! You’ll be giving me a byline soon!!!!

Marianne,

If you really want to work at Rolling Stone you might want to copy-check your writing – unless your post was satire – in that case, well done.

P.S. Editors HATE excessive explanation points. Let your words do the talking, not the punctuation.

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One thing I forgot to mention:

The last thing these interns will gain from this farce of an experience is the respect of their peers and superiors. I hope they succeed – but ultimately their place on the show was secured not by their writing samples but by the ability for Rolling Stone and MTV to market these kids – note the presence of every reality TV stereotype in the cast – and the failure by the public to recognize the con. It’s very sad.

So glad this contest was open to aspiring Canadian journalists too.

Thanks Rolling Stone!

do you have to be 18? i’m 16 and so so down.

Ya this comp will be good i just hope i get choosen been my dream for a long time to write for stone i dont car for the guitar at all if i get a shot a chance for rolling stone i mean the guitar is nice but i just want to write hope i get it if not try after highschool and again after college if failed

Got to love everyone who gushes with glee about their hopes to win and manage to misspell half their words doing so.

Les,

It’s kind of heartwarming to hear your thoughts and dreams about writing for Rolling Stone. However, before you go fight for your right to dream, I do suggest doing a brush-up on how to write. Perhaps a composition class would help; it could teach you things such as grammar, punctuation, and proper capitalization. Even picking up and reading a book would help. Just some friendly advice from your not so admiring admirer.

Rolling Stone huh… well for those of you who sped past the part where Joe Levy himself has to pick you out of say what- thousands, let me help you out and give you a quick little summary about what it was really saying: not only do you have to prove that you are a good writer in general, but you also have to prove yourself against A LOT of other inspiring writers.Oh and I completely agree with Joe B. on the guitar situation, which by the way is only if you are a WEEKLY WINNER, not just writer, but WINNER. And still with all of this, i cant help but thinking that maybe, just maybe i actually might have a chance, although im sure all of the others writers are thinking the exact same thing, so for those of you who will write with all of your heart i wish you the very best of luck, because with all of the writers that are going to go out for it, you are most certainly going to need it.( and to that special writer who does get chosen, congrats!)

I just finished watching a screener of the first two episodes, and there were two things that struck me. First, I find it amazing that out of 2,000 applicants, the show ended up with a couple of people who seemed to have minimal writing skills. Second, is there some unwritten reality TV show rule that says every new series has to include at least one person who has a drinking problem?

There were a couple of really funny moments, including the one where one contestant seemed unaware of who Jann Wenner is, and how to pronounce his name. And I enjoyed the description of the RS offices as looking like the offices of Enron.

omg…i cant wait for this show to air…im only 16, but i want to be a magazine editor/ journalist when i get older and watching this show will kinda give me the inside scoop on what goes on in the offices of a major magazine company!! im so excited…first miss seventeen..and now this!!! yesss

Tell me this: I don’t have cable, but I want to do this. Badly. Is there a way to make that happen? Do you have to watch the show to know what the assignment is?

I can’t imagine what RollingStone is thinking by running this sort of contest. What sort of quality are you going extricate from a “reality show” crowd. Surely, we’ve learned our lesson about “fast food fame”. I doesn’t make you famous and it certainly doesn’t make you interesting.

I can’t imagine what RollingStone is thinking by running this sort of contest. What sort of quality are you going extricate from a “reality show” crowd? Surely, we’ve learned our lesson about “fast food fame” by now. It doesn’t make you famous and it certainly doesn’t make you interesting.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Will you people shut the fuck up already?
If you don’t like it so fucking much, then don’t write anything.
It’s as simple as that, people.

I’m very excited to watch this! And WILL comment if it WAS or WAS NOT worth watching. But anything that has to do with “writing” is an interest to me.

Rolling Stone’s new advertising slogan should be “Progressively swirling down the journalistic toilet bowl of mediocrity”

hahaha …. now RS are deleting responses to these so-called stories. Freedom of Speech, huh? Hypocrites.

So I’m kind of sad I didn’t apply for the show now…
And what’s up with four of the six being from CA?

Jealousy is a weak emotion.

if someone cud say the assignment im not gonna waste my time watching mtv but i like wrting

For an aspiring writer, this show is very interesting to me. It’s always an interesting thing to see just how people get their big breaks, and to watch their dreams come true I think is a gift. It certainly inspires me to try to do more with my writing than to sit in my nook everyday, tapping at my keyboard just wondering if what I have to say about anything will ever be witnessed by anyone else but the few people that know me.

whats the assignment???!!!!!!!

Oh, how my dream has been bombarded…

I will most definitely participate in this “sweepstakes”(I could definitely use an Apple..LOL..and the gig). I believe that both this competition and the show itself pervert the talents that such aspiring journalists as myself have acquired from years of strenuous work and innumerous trial; however, neither I nor the majority of Americans can control the perpetuations of television.

So…”oh well”. Let us see if my $50,000/year education will get me farther than these reality TV “journalists”.

i find it to be aspiring. especially considering i have yet to ever finish one thing in my life. but yet after watching the first episode can do nothing but write. but what strikes me odd is watching all these movies, and reading all these columns on how Rolling Stone represents the artist, and the love of playing music. and yet makes a reality show on what is becoming known as the drain of our generation. with their sweet 16’s and beer drinking sluts. but to each his own. i have made the decision to pursue my career in journalism. but im not going to go the route of a prude college student doing it for a money and a name. i will vow to write for the artist, for the music. to let it be known that the world knows what exactly it has through heart break, and even disaster. if thats what your searching for on putting your show on this channel. then i support it. and god thank you for not giving up on this generation, that generation, and the ones to come. but make it known, every week i will enter in this contest. i have no guides, no classes under my belt. no 50,000 tuition fees. but i do have heart, and i do have a mind for what is needed, and what we as people cannot lose. and i will be a writer for Rolling Stone. thank you for your time.

Bet Indonesian TV stations will air something similar. I hate TV.

I love the show already. I gave up writing a few months ago after I got discouraged about it. I loved writing. I want to start again after seeing this show. I write a blog everyday but it’s not like writing about something that you have a pure passion for. I’ve been writing since I was six years old, I know it is my gift, so I can truly say I am encouraged. I’m even more so encouraged to know that there was someone in my age range that is on the show. I am going to enter the contest and see what happens. It’d be satisfied with just winning the laptop!

After just having my first book published, this seems to be what I consider an intriguing opportunity…so I’ll jump! Just got through watching the first episode – like the conception and the strategical atmosphere but do wonder how some of the competitors came to be selected…but hey! I won’t criticize rather I will enter and prove myself, as the future of Rolling Stone Mag.

Good ideas and creativity are what writers offer, all the technical stuff is for the anal editors.

Joy! Another “reality” sh..(yawn)…

i find it to be aspiring. especially considering i have yet to ever finish one thing in my life. after hearing of this contest i have done nothing but write. i dont in fact myself watch mtv. but what strikes me odd is watching all these movies, and reading all these columns on how Rolling Stone represents the artist, and the love of playing music. and yet makes a reality show on what is becoming known as the drain of our generation. with their sweet 16’s and beer drinking sluts. but to each his own. i have made the decision to pursue my career in journalism. but im not going to go the route of a prude college student doing it for the money and a name. i will vow to write for the artist, for the music. to let it be known that the world knows what exactly it has through heart break, and even disaster. if thats what your searching for on putting your show on this channel. then i support it. and god thank you for not giving up on this generation, that generation, and the ones to come. but make it known, every week i will enter in this contest. i have no guides, no classes under my belt. no $50,000 tuition fees. but i do have heart, and i do have a mind for what is needed, and what we as people cannot lose. and i will be a writer for Rolling Stone. im not going to be like all of the cliche writers that try out for your magazine because i feel its too good for that. writing about how the downfall of the upbeat and smooth lines of hip-hop that was known for by the roots and common were being over taken by the sometimes so called straight edge scenester’s , and the new age cock rock. and im not here to write about how some bullshit corporate news team that extort decent people and hide lies behind a famous face. if what needs be said, should be said. i mean that is what we fight for everyday of our lives. and what is more aww powering than fighting it through music? writing, not just book writing and slow moving career crashing shit that no1 will ever even read. but strong stories on music, and the wave of our generation.
im saying go the straight up hardcore route with it as well. like not go to school for the degree, but sit in on classes that im not even taking and do it raw. ill get my degree in vocabulary, and writing format. but not in journalism. make it so my writing is more from the “street” for people to understand and appreciate. “For the people, by the people.”
thank you for your time.
Joseph P.

Fuck Rolling Stone and their ‘journalism’ that’s nothing more than nostalgic adulation and second-fiddle bandwagoning – counterculture, pfft. It’s now found right between lads magazines like maxim and fhm, and the worst part is, rightfully so.

Furthermore, fuck all these retarded snobs on this comments page who are like “ooo, these reality TV journos are shit – they’re bad because they’re reality tv, and rolling stone is bad because t’s using reality tv”. If it was such a big deal, you deranged viagras, would you spend so much time parading your self-righteous ballspew all over the internet Rolling Stone’s back door? If given the opportunity, you’d take it immediately: the people on the tele do the same. Don’t judge them because they’re products of reality tv, judge them because they’re useless.

All this bollocks about ‘talent’ and ‘hard work’. If you’re good, you’re good. You don’t need to be that good to write journalism. Don’t flatter yourselves. You just need an eye for detail and an unflinching, bendy-twisty spine.

BUT LET’S START OUR OWN MAGAZINE:

music isn’t, anymore, the voice of revolution. Underground films question the status quo: political activism. Christ, where do you people stand?

I can’t stand reading some Rolling Stone articles, but I read them anyway because a bit of blood is good for you.

I love the show! The first guy is a dumb ass…what makes me sick is that someone as dumb as you would even take the time to post a comment, while claiming to hate Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone must be doing something right…the got your attention! Get a life LOSER! I love to write but Im more into freestyle writing. I would love to write for a well known magazine but I have a degree in Business & one in Visual Communications not Journalism but I am so willing to go back to school to get my masters degree in Journalism. I have always been complimented on my choice of topics and my articles. My teachers say I choose the topics no one else would even think about choosing. I WOULD LOVE THIS OPPORTUNITY!!!

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