{"id":14900,"date":"2010-03-22T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2010-03-24T20:46:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T03:46:51","slug":"stab-yanks-magazine-off-newsstands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14900","title":{"rendered":"Stab Yanks Magazine Off Newsstands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smith_fanning.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smith_fanning.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=698,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/smith_fanning-tm.jpg\" height=\"139\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Smith Fanning\" \/><\/a>Stories of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stabmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stab Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and racism are fast becoming <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14251\" target=\"_blank\">clich\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>. In the most recent episode <strong>Mick Fanning&#8217;s<\/strong> lawyers asked <em>Stab<\/em> to pull their January\/February issue off newsstands due to a few culturally problematic quotes from the current world champ.<\/p>\n<p>The issue features a <strong>Charlie Smith<\/strong> story titled <strong><em>Tales of a Fucking Jew <\/em><\/strong>in which Fanning is reportedly quoted making similarly anti-semitic comments directed at <strong>Smith<\/strong> (pictured left) in December 2009 at a <strong>Rip Curl<\/strong> party celebrating Mick&#8217;s 2010 ASP world title win.<\/p>\n<p>According to a story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/nation\/mag-has-a-stab-at-surfing-champ-mick-fanning-over-jew-label\/story-e6frg6nf-1225843017620\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong> <em>Stab<\/em> publisher <strong>Sam McIntosh<\/strong> has complied with the request and the issue is no longer available.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said Stab had acceded to a request from Fanning&#8217;s lawyers to pull the issue from newsstands, but not for legal reasons. . . He said the decision was motivated by a desire to maintain good relations with the surfer and only after Fanning had expressed contrition. . . He denied the assertion that as Fanning&#8217;s sponsor, Rip Curl, was also an advertiser with the magazine, this had influenced the withdrawal of the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For all the inflammatory racist details behind this, click the links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/blog\/_\/post\/5018467?yuy\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Coen on ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/profile\/chris+mauro\/blog\/16624\/mick+fanning+gets+stabbed+by+regretable+comments\/\">Chris Mauro on Grind TV<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/surf-star-rides-into-storm-of-outrage-20100320-qn77.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/nation\/mag-has-a-stab-at-surfing-champ-mick-fanning-over-jew-label\/story-e6frg6nf-1225843017620\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><strong><em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/span>Times are tough enough for print magazines without pulling newsstand issues and being forced into refunding all those advertising dollars. Sounds like some bad decisions all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories of Stab Magazine and racism are fast becoming clich\u00e9. In the most recent episode Mick Fanning&#8217;s lawyers asked Stab to pull their January\/February issue off newsstands due to a few culturally problematic quotes from the current world champ. The issue features a Charlie Smith story titled Tales of a Fucking Jew in which Fanning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14971,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions\/14971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}