ABSTRACT
We often read old magazines and newspapers in order to find out what the world was like “back then”: what people did and what they looked like; what their opinions were, and how they expressed them. Yet it is easy to forget that these pages do not mirror reality – or history – exactly as it happened. Rather they are the result of a long process, a chain of choices. Even in the free-thinking sixties, structures of power existed just as they do today, and even within countercultural magazines such as Rolling Stone and Creem people made decisions that excluded some artists and glorified others.
