Editing Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (section)

===The Monkees===
In a [[Facebook]] post, Monkees member [[Michael Nesmith]] stated that he did not know if the Monkees belonged in the Hall of Fame because he could see the impact of the Monkees only from the inside and went on to say: "I can see the HOF (Hall of Fame) is a private enterprise. It seems to operate as a business, and the inductees are there by some action of the owners of the Enterprise. The inductees appear to be chosen at the owner's pleasure. This seems proper to me. It is their business in any case. It does not seem to me that the HOF carries a public mandate, nor should it be compelled to conform to one."<ref>{{cite web |last=Nesmith |first=Michael |title='Should The Monkees be included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?', you ask. |url=https://www.facebook.com/michaelnesmith/posts/400891016595629 |publisher=Facebook |access-date=May 13, 2012 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>{{primary-inline|date=February 2025}}

Some magazines and news outlets—such as ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine| last=McCombs| first=Joseph| title=Hey, Hey Let Them In: 10 Reasons The Monkees Should Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame| url=https://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/19/the-monkees-should-be-in-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-times-10-part-treatise/#their-chart-success| magazine=Time| access-date=May 20, 2012| date=April 19, 2012}}</ref> [[NPR]] radio,<ref>{{cite news| last=Hirsh| first=Marc |title=NOW Can We Induct the Monkees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?| url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/03/01/147736081/now-can-we-induct-the-monkees-into-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame |work=Pop Culture Happy Hour | publisher=NPR| date=March 2012| access-date=May 20, 2012}}</ref> ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'',<ref>{{cite news| title=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The top 5 biggest omissions| url=http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2010/1215/Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame-The-top-5-biggest-omissions/The-Monkees| newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor| first=Jacob| last=Turcotte| access-date=May 20, 2012}}</ref> ''[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]'' magazine,<ref>{{cite magazine| last=Marder| first=Phill| title=No Monkee business allowed in the Rock Hall of Fame?| url=http://www.goldminemag.com/blogs/no-monkee-business-allowed-in-the-rock-hall-of-fame| magazine=Goldmine| access-date=May 20, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| last=Marder| first=Phill| title=10 more bands snubbed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame| url=http://www.goldminemag.com/blogs/10-more-bands-snubbed-by-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame| magazine=Goldmine| access-date=May 20, 2012}}</ref> [[Yahoo! Music]],<ref>{{cite web| last=Hoskyns| first=Barney| title=Why Aren't the Monkees in the Rock and Roll of Fame?| url=http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/rocks-backpages/why-aren-t-monkees-rock-roll-fame-125232196.html| website=Yahoo! Music| access-date=May 20, 2012}}</ref> and [[MSNBC]]—have argued that the Monkees belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sclafani |first=Tony |title=Hey hey, it's the fans who want the Monkees in the Rock Hall |url=http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/13/11182790-hey-hey-its-the-fans-who-want-the-monkees-in-the-rock-hall |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512022857/http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/13/11182790-hey-hey-its-the-fans-who-want-the-monkees-in-the-rock-hall?lite |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |access-date=May 20, 2012 |publisher=[[NBC News]]}}</ref>