Posted 10:27 AM by Gene

We just noticed this: It's time for PVT. ZELL to fire Mogul's Friend. Here a columnist for the Wall Street Journals writes a reasonable article about the death of film songs and Mog has to Krugmanize over it because the Journals run Nazi editorials. Mog would vastly benefit by seeking paid favors for his press releases, as he worships the ground the studio hacks don't have to walk on; indeed we rather suspect he was crestfallen when The Daily Kaplan reversed itself -- all the more reason for PVT. ZELL to fire him. Besides he can always get a job as a studio flack -- the sort of thing he was born for.

We might further note Mog's tantrum has drawn zero comments, which is too many.

P. S. Using the name Jason Mcgruder, Mog got his interns to write a comment in the original:

The older-skewing acadamy [SIC] has never nominated a Madonna song, for example, despite her having co-written many top 10 hits for movies (Live to Tell, I'll Remember, Beutiful [SIC] Strnager [SIC], Die Another Day, to name a few) while simultaneously nomiting [SIC] so many songs by Randy Newman I have lost count....Of course an old fogie who does not actually know what kids listen to today would dismiss this all as music that is not as good as that old-time jazz...which in own [SIC] early days was dismissed as "negro music."

Mog, you really must get your interns to spell better -- and get their grammar in gear.

P. P. S. We hate to prolong the agony but if today's "music" is so wonderful why are recorded sound and radio in the toilet? And why is the concert racket a glorified oldies show? We've heard enough excuses about three-song playlists and file sharing, and they're true enough as they go, and perhaps the Web understates a given song's popularity, but a good song should become famous whatever the technology. God knows enough bad songs have. And we will not unearth the old line "you get what you pay for." Mog and his interns to the contrary, this is not an age of good songs.