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The Future of Rock Journalism

Ryan Carse, Rock's Backpages, November 2013

FRANK ZAPPA successfully offended an entire industry in 1977 during an interview with Bruce Kirkland for the Toronto Star newspaper. He said, "Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read". 

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