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Media Matters
Frank, Thomas | February 3, 1997 issue

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The media reacted to the situation as though OPEC were back, with The New York Times even offering strategic cultural advice to the music industry from the lofty heights of its editorial page. In Time, the writer Christopher John Farley wrote that alternative rock is sounding a bit cranky and old as it turns up in car commercials, movie soundtracks and award shows, not a good thing for a form supposedly powered by energy and youth and anger. "By 1996," agreed the writer Jon Pareles in the Times's third article on the subject, the imitators had devalued their chosen genres, robbing them of even the illusion of sincerity.

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MASS media; NEW York Times, The (Newspaper); EDITORIALS; HALLUCINATIONS & illusions; FARLEY, Christopher John; PARELES, Jon
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