WTF

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Quite bewilderingly unpleasant article which claims to be about 'pop' from The Village Voice. Makes me long for the discretionary principle -- if you can't say anything nice, say nothing. (It may be a joke I haven't understood because of not being asleep at a stupid hour of the morning, but I suspect not.)

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It has lashings of that toxic brashness which seems to infect a lot of nu-Voice writing (though of course mostly I'm following links to the bad stuff from apalled commentators...)

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Well Rob Harvilla's stuff isn't like that very much, but a lot of the stuff in his section is, which is weird. It's also weird because the writing style is basically the same as another NY paper, the NY Press. That paper doesn't have very good music coverage (actually it's fairly embarassing), but the tone in this Voice piece (and Chris Ott's pieces for the Voice) is roughly the NY Press's tone for everything, especially poltics and movies. This is weird because the NY Press is a failing paper, so I don't know why you'd want to imitate it.