noah | January 19, 2009 3:45 am

Hip-hop magazine The Source will stop accepting what it calls “booty ads” (those hawking pornographic Web sites, dirty movies, and escort services) in an effort to appeal more to big-name advertisers like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. It’s an almost suicidally principled move in the current ad climate, which has not been kind to music magazines in particular—OK, maybe not “almost.” [NYT]