POP CRITIC WONDERS ABOUT THE HONESTY OF REVIEWS

The world of popular culture is filled with profanity. But you’ll never read any of that included in newspapers’ accounts of pop music events. Isn’t the absence of same leaving out a part of the story? “Do readers really think that the sight of an f- over their morning coffee will have them unwillingly rubbing shoulders with Satan? Will an s- send them spiraling downward into a sweeping, swirling eddy of moral despair?” – San Jose Mercury News