jann wenner

Anyone eagerly awaiting a world in which all content is paid content would do well to observe Rolling Stone's clumsy handling of its General Stanley McChrystal blockbuster.

When publisher Jann Wenner first revealed his plan to take Us, a middling monthly entertainment magazine, and put it into head-to-head competition with People, the world's most profitable weekly, it had the makings of a colossal error. In time, it even looked like an error to Wenner, who, panicked...