[jameshart]

I don’t think Rolling Stone is a great example - the conceit of a music magazine is that its content is curated by tastemakers untainted by the marketing machinery of the industry they’re reviewing. The content is all promoting acts and albums and musicians who are the products of music labels, but it’s not ‘advertising’.

But ‘Computer Shopper’ magazine on the other hand was half magazine, half catalog. The ads are the point.