Fresh Eye on the Radio: Rolling Stone’s relevance

Mary Lucia reveals why Rolling Stone, which has brought down a general, had become irrelevant.

Since Rolling Stone did what the Taliban could not do, many people have suggested that the magazine is “relevant again.” News Cut was not aware that it had become irrelevant, especially since Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi provides some of the most interesting political coverage in the country.

Irrelevant? To understand the assertion, News Cut turned to Senior Rolling Stone correspondent Mary Lucia of the Current. And we got the whole football — soccer, whatever — thing figured out today, too.