gawker.com - 2/27/2008
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In this clip, CNN picks up on Maxim 's fake review of the Black Crowes album. But they fail to pick up any anchors who know anything about the Black Crowes. Instead, the anchors just spitball about the band's connection to the "grunge" movement, then, grasping at straws, congratulate them on lasting longer than Nirvana. Which does tend to happen when your lead singer hasn't committed ...
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CNN Reclassifies Black Crowes As "Grunge," Remains Blissfully Ignorant Of The Concept Of "Irony" [Oy]
Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip —
... of time that they're allotted to discuss one of the day's biggest news stories, find themselves musing over the true meanings of an official statement from Maxim that they haven't seen. And said statement is regarding a review they haven't read. And it covers a band they're completely unfamiliar with (although they do know that Kurt Cobain isn't the Black Crowes' lead singer)! Who said that there were no good examples of journalism out there in the world? [HT: Gawker] ...
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