A music and music industry magazine started in
San Francisco in 1967 by journalist and editor [Jann Wenner]
?
Rolling Stone magazine embraced the hippie/free love/drug counterculture
? during the early
1960s an
1970s and was pivotal in the rise to fame of such bands as [The Grateful Dead]
?.
By the 1980s, despite still nominally employing such people as [Hunter S Thompson]?, Rolling Stone had become institutionalized and adopted ideas (e.g., employment drug testing) shunned by the early Rolling Stone magazine.
Who owns Rolling Stone? Is it now just a corporate entity owned by Time Magazine? It would explain the disinfected content.
No, Rolling Stone is still owned by "Wenner Media", the company set up by the magazine's founder. I don't know if its publicly listed, or who owns shares.