The New York Times says that 2011 was the year when rock just spun its wheels. The Guardian calls it the year of boring music. And while “beige against the machine” is a cute and retweetable one-liner, it’s nothing more than a cheap shot based on a faulty premise: that something went wrong with music [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: journalism
I want to make a very simple point. Almost too simple for a blog post. But it won’t fit into 140 characters, so it’s too long for Twitter, and I don’t know what proportion of my friends on Facebook would care about this – so it’s here for whoever’s interested. Katy Bairstow wrote a thoughtful [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: criticism, Internet, journalism
Photo by mfophotos Without wanting to tread on the toes of any of my colleagues – notably Paul Bradshaw, who is a world-beating expert on all things online journalism – I had a thought today about the crossover between newspapers and the internet. Don’t think of this so much as an “idea” like the other [...]
Tagged: Internet, journalism, media, newspapers
