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The Rolling Stone co-founder apologised for controversial comments about Black and female musicians, but they exposed rock journalism’s previously unspoken biases

From the start, his Rolling Stone magazine was a bastion of white male privilege

Asked why his new book 'The Masters' included no women or people of color, Wenner said, 'Just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level,' and remarked that Joni Mitchell 'was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll'

In interview about new book The Masters, Wenner had said no female or Black musicians ‘were as articulate’ as white performers

The Rolling Stone founder's comments about women and Black musicians cost him a seat with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Frankly, his ousting was long overdue.

The Rolling Stone co-founder’s exit comes a day after The New York Times published an interview in which he made widely criticized comments.

In an interview published Friday in The New York Times, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine made comments that were widely criticized as sexist and racist.

Interview comments made by Wenner about women and people of colour are widely criticised as sexist and racist

Dave Marsh made me want to write about music.

The vibe was very West Coast: everyone looked like someone I’d played in a Seattle band with a decade ago. Cowboy boots and fleece, a lot of craft beer and sleeve tattoos, #vanlifers with fedoras and rainbow Pendleton blankets, earth-toned knitwear and dusty Chacos (the “pretty” kind with the toe loop), big Indigo Girls energy. I’ve been in New York too long; I don’t own clothes like this anymore.