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Maslin bails, critics rail
After more than 20 years, the New York Times film reviewer is calling it quits. Others across the country feel her pain -- and some would like to feel her paycheck.
By Sean Elder
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He has his Web site, TV show, radio show and soon an autobiography. So why isn't Matt Drudge happy?
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Whither George? And what's up with Tina's Talk?
Hachette wonders what to do with George, post JFK Jr.; the new issue of Tina's mag isn't going to get people talking.
By Sean Elder
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Gilded ink
At the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, conspicuous consumption is a highly profitable commodity.
By David Carr
[09/10/99]

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Great balls of fire
The press got a little burned at Waco as well.
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"Music=Violence"

The Seattle Weekly's package on the century-long connection between music and violence is a fun, if skeletal, romp through music history -- from ragtime to "psycho-country" and the ongoing scapegoating of music for violent teen behavior. If nothing else, it would have benefited from a more coherent thesis: For example, why are violent themes such a draw for musicians? Why is the public so willing to accept shallow explanations -- "the music made me do it" -- for criminal behavior?

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Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages, Sept. 22-28

"You're Not Invited" by Peter Scholtes

A new trend in rock 'n' roll is the rise of private, corporate-sponsored shows featuring big name artists. Peter Scholtes opens his article with the bizarre spectacle of ex-punk Bob Mould playing a concert paid for by attendees who collect Marlboro Miles. The phenomenon of rock stars big and small playing for private audiences has quietly become commonplace.

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Willamette Week, Sept. 22-28

"Publish or Perish" by Susan Wickstrom

In this bland, predictable interview, Susan Wickstrom talks to Ariel Gore, creator of the popular self-published zine HipMama. It's true that occasionally the writer/publisher of a zine gets discovered, gets book deals and gets lucrative national freelance assignments. But more often, the zine sucks and nobody reads it. Sobering words for the zine-makers currently gathered in Portland, Ore., for the Hot House 1999 conference -- but ones that seem to elude our chipper reporter. The real story is right under her nose: Most of the successful zines she mentions -- HipMama, Bust, Chickclick.com, Rockrgrl -- are for women apparently fed up with the makeup-and-orgasms content offered by mainstream women's glossies.

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In Pittsburgh Weekly, Sept. 22-28

"There's a sucker forwarding every minute" by Marty Levine

Most likely, you've gotten the e-mail several times now -- the one that tells the tragic story of a promising high school student struck down by liver disease. Save Darren's life, it begs! Don't delete! In this amusing story, Marty Levine tracks down the real-life Darren, who'd be perfectly fine if the phone calls, concerned e-mails and other complications stemming from this phony, unstoppable spam would end.
salon.com | Sept. 24, 1999

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