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>Despite his and his magazine's avowedly liberal politics, there can be no question that Jan Wenner and the staff during the "classic" era of Rolling Stone Magazine clearly had a slant towards one type of musical expression, which may be politely summed up as "white male rock stars." The magazine seldom covered women artists, or African-Americans, or African-American genres such as soul, funk, and disco--as Greil Marcus once complained, "We pretty much all hated disco and had zero interest in it." (a few small exceptions were made for rock-aligned token blacks such as Jimi Hendrix or Chuck Berry). Until years later the staff of the magazine was almost entirely white (or Jewish) males with no women or nonwhite writers. Wenner was also on record as stating that white men musicians made for the most interesting interview subjects.

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