http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2008/11/21/why-is-the-mainstream-media-so-biased-against-rock/ Music, Photography, Railways, Games and Opinion Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2008/11/21/why-is-the-mainstream-media-so-biased-against-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-3669 Tim Hall Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:40:06 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2008/11/21/why-is-the-mainstream-media-so-biased-against-rock/#comment-3669 Oh yes, there's definitely a strong dislike of anything outside the 'post-punk orthodoxy'. Even though the heyday of punk was 30 years ago. Oh yes, there’s definitely a strong dislike of anything outside the ‘post-punk orthodoxy’. Even though the heyday of punk was 30 years ago.

]]> http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2008/11/21/why-is-the-mainstream-media-so-biased-against-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-3668 Serdar Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:52:08 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2008/11/21/why-is-the-mainstream-media-so-biased-against-rock/#comment-3668 There's a part of me that wants to believe the overblown likes of Emerson, Lake & Palmer soured a good many people on anything with the "progressive" label. Maybe that's reaching a little too far back, but I get the impression there's a strong prejudice against anything that smacks of being "pretentious", "highbrow", "artsy", or "self-indulgence" (as if you can't cite any number of other acts in any number of other genres that commit any or all of those sins). There’s a part of me that wants to believe the overblown likes of Emerson, Lake & Palmer soured a good many people on anything with the “progressive” label. Maybe that’s reaching a little too far back, but I get the impression there’s a strong prejudice against anything that smacks of being “pretentious”, “highbrow”, “artsy”, or “self-indulgence” (as if you can’t cite any number of other acts in any number of other genres that commit any or all of those sins).

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