Re: Looping back to Krispen's old critics thread (was sorta: using laptops for music"

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Abso*!@%!#$lutey, man. It's like it's not about journalism anymore for some
rags, but sensationalism and how to expand their reader base using whatever
it takes.  Of course, they never published my letter to the editor because
it was three freakin' pages long and a mini-dissertation on music
aesthetics. That's an alternative to Sominex.

K-


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "joe rut" <joerut@lycos.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: Looping back to Krispen's old critics thread (was sorta: using
laptops for music"


I've often felt (cynic alert) that that is the exact intent if many
reviewers, particularly in weekly rags where getting people riled up enough
to write a
lette to the editor is all part of the game plan.

Joe


>Making value statements disguised as factual statements gets
>people stoked and look really
>insightful and cool, but also piss everyone off that holds the
contradictory
>value statement.  The point
>is that writers are smart enough to discern between these two domains of
>writing and now how to
>be insightful without irritating the shit out of 50% of their readers.


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