Posted 9:04 PM by Gene

Meantime a genuine idiocy in the Paper of Re-CORD's rag: an 8,363-WORD genuflection to some recorded...SOUND guru of the moment named Rubin. Of course its underlying theme is the usual one-note whine about the Web, which alas won't go platinum -- and which further highlights the typical motivation behind such tripe: that the recorded...SOUND biz isn't being ruined by lousy songs or crappy talent, no, it's been afflicted with a disease, very much like cancer, an unexplained thing that is sapping the biz of its sales; but as one might expect with an 8,363-WORD piece typed by someone who "writes regularly about the entertainment industry" there is not the tiniest hint the trade is at fault except for some of its business models, and who knew what a computer was twenty years ago? nor are the geniuses who excrete the sonic marvels of the age; no, the biz' "sudden" collapse (which may not be so sudden) is something that has happened, the way it's now the news industry's take that 9/11 happened, and these are all decent, good, kind people to whom such awful things just shouldn't be happening.

Will someone tell PINCH such grandiose navel staring will not stanch His losses? And will somebody tell the rag's editors long does not necessarily equal good?