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May. 18th, 2003 02:09 pmFrom today's New York Times:
Blogs! An article in the style section about shifting boundaries of public and private contains this:
A dumbish article by Jon Pareles on 70's-influenced male singer-songwriters like John Mayer, Jack Johnson, and Jason Mraz ("Sweet Baby Jameses," says the blurb on the cover). Pareles, a music critic, asks, "Shouldn't they be shouting rather than whispering?" (No; they should be making the music they want to make, and then we can decide whether it's the music we want to hear.) "Collectively, as a movement, all those edgeless tenor voices and all that deference, self-consciousness, sublimated anger and self-pity just might get on your nerves." (Here's a tip: They're not a "movement".) When songwriters sing "I'm sorry," "They're atoning not only for their own romantic mishaps but also, in a way, for the surge of machismo in 1990's rock." (Wow.)
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Blogs! An article in the style section about shifting boundaries of public and private contains this:
While blogging journalists like Andrew Sullivan, Mickey Kaus and Eric Alterman get a lot of attention, a vast majority of bloggers are average citizens like Mr. Bruner, who draw from their personal experiences - and often the personal experiences of relatives, friends and colleagues - to create a kind of memoir in motion that details breakups and work and family issues with sometimes startling candor.Of course, really, blogging journalists get all that attention from other journalists. Journalists are an important section of the blog world, but it's rare that a major media piece notices that they aren't central to it. A companion piece describes a "New York School of bloggers," which I suspect means "blogs run by friends of friends of this reporter".
A dumbish article by Jon Pareles on 70's-influenced male singer-songwriters like John Mayer, Jack Johnson, and Jason Mraz ("Sweet Baby Jameses," says the blurb on the cover). Pareles, a music critic, asks, "Shouldn't they be shouting rather than whispering?" (No; they should be making the music they want to make, and then we can decide whether it's the music we want to hear.) "Collectively, as a movement, all those edgeless tenor voices and all that deference, self-consciousness, sublimated anger and self-pity just might get on your nerves." (Here's a tip: They're not a "movement".) When songwriters sing "I'm sorry," "They're atoning not only for their own romantic mishaps but also, in a way, for the surge of machismo in 1990's rock." (Wow.)
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