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Will You Boycott Rolling Stone Advertisers and Sellers?

Our sister site in Nashua, NH, picked up a very controversial blog, and we here in metro Atlanta Patchland want your opinion.

While we at Patch are all about the hyper-local, a national topic of discussion comes around every once in a while that deserves our attention.

Our sister site in Nashua, NH, ran a blog on Thursday, July 18, that is definitely spurring some conversation:

Please Boycott the Advertisers of Rolling Stone Magazine, Along With the Places That Sell it.
Is it just me, ladies and gentlemen, or has the world gone crazy??? A once respectable popular media outlet, that’s photo exposure on its front cover could send even a mediocre rock group -- such as Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show in the late 70s -- into instant international celebrity status has now become nothing more than a national rag.

That's just a sample of the entire blog, which you can read in its entirety on the above link.

Metro Atlanta has a long history with the economic tool known as boycotting. It was one of the prime mechanisms used by civil rights leaders - many of whom hailed from our city - to propel equality and change throughout the 1950s and 60s.

What do you think about the Rolling Stone cover and article? Will you boycott the magazine's advertisers, and the places that sell the publication? Or is this much ado about nothing? 

And if you have a strong opinion about this issue (or any other, for that matter), why not consider starting your own blog on Patch? It's easy, free ... and definitely conversational!


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