The lowest of the low
It’s no wonder journalists routinely end up at the bottom of the list on credibility surveys. Some of them keep doing things like this.
A writer with Maxim Magazine has apparently used what he calls “an educated guess” to review the new Black Crowes album, Warpaint, without even hearing it. The band members are furious at the tepid review and I suspect they would be upset no matter how many stars out of five the reviewer had given the CD. It’s just dishonest! And it’s happening all too often.
Some authors fake their autobiographies and they end up with a return appearance on Oprah. Columnists fake that they have seen things and talked to people that they haven’t seen or talked to and they get book deals. And now a music reviewer “reviews” a CD he has never listened to and, what? He gets a record deal? Becomes Simon Cowell’s assistant? Gets flooded with emails from by rabid Black Crowes fans???
The one saving grace is that the review appears in Maxim, which celebrates many fake things passed off as real, starting with the chests of its models. Perhaps the reviewer can claim he’s just using editorial license in order to stick with a theme!
February 28th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I find it equally astonishing that you would make the same presumption about the models that appear in Maxim. Are you not perpetuating the same attitude towards journalists with that comment?
February 29th, 2008 at 3:32 am
I think it’s pretty much understood that many models in magazines like Maxim have undergone chest enhancements. That’s based on fact! It’s not good or bad…it just is. Thanks for reading and commenting.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Maybe that journalist is really a weather man? My educated guess on tomorrow’s weather is it’s going to be a mix of sun and clouds with a 50% chance of snow.
Actually, that is my educated guess until end of March.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Maybe the Journalist is really a weather man? My educated guess for tomorrows weather is a mix of sun and clouds with a 50% chance of snow. Actually, that is my educated guess until the end of March.