NYT, Reaching for Greatness
Newspapers have pages to fill up, even when the real news is either too inconsequential or depressing to print, so a lot of really stupid stuff gets printed. My nominee for today comes from the New York Times: 60 times Madonna Changed Our Culture. I guess the former pop star just turned sixty. I would be more sympathetic if I wasn't so much older. I was never much of a fan, though I did appreciate some of her music once it made it into its Weird Al version. Anyway, it seems that every reporter, copy boy and kiosk tender in the NYT stable got to submit some way in which Madonna "changed the culture." Some of them might even be real, but the top few give a hint of the intellectual gravity of the enterprise: 1. SHE IS FIGHTING THE PERNICIOUS IDEA THAT OLDER WOMEN DON’T MATTER. - yeah, we all fight that notion that old people don't matter, but we always lose. 2. SHE TURNED HER CONFIDENCE AND STYLE INTO MOVIE STARDOM. - omg, that's got to be ...