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posted by davidt
on Wednesday August 08 2001, @08:00AM
Dan B. Pearl writes:
Andrew Collins, who did fine work on the NME when it was half-decent, is taking part in a discussion on a comedy discussion site about the sad history of that music paper. The NME's treatment of race issues came up and Collins wrote:
Posted By Andrew Collins on Thu Jul 26 09:25:39 BST 2001:
Riots. I know what they're doing. We never did riots in my day (1988-1992) but the week we decided to "expose" Morrissey as a racist gave us all a buzz in the office - it was like being "proper journalists" for a rare couple of days as we pieced together what was, if not an actual "news" story, certainly more vital than just putting an interview with Kingmaker on the cover. Being a music journalist is not being a journalist - a painful truth we all knew - it's an easy, cossetted, spoon-fed life of Riley, so when the chance comes to do something "newsy", no matter how anodyne and forced it looks to us on the outside, the staff of pale young men will have got a real kick out of doing it. They probably all fell back and had a post-coital cigarette after sending the issue off to the printers, as if they were working for an underground Jewish paper during the first days of the Nazi era.
It's still bollocks though.
(Original post at http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~frogger/cforum/forum561.html - scroll about 7/8ths of the way down, or search for "racist".)
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