Maybe Led Zeppelin isn't your music, it isn't mine. Maybe you aren't a professor someplace or other, I am not either. But this morning's twofer is how Andrew Goodwin and Slate magazine show us why the top down media is simply a vehicle for the puerile fact free rants of a small group of people whose talent is worming their way in, like a grub, rather than anything that could be taken for, well, thinking. Let alone writing.

Andrew Goodwin is not a serious scholar, and he is a smug fool who obviously hates a particular song. He's entitled to hate the song, write about hating the song, and agitating for it not being played at a concert. I think there are whole groups of recording artists who the world would be better off without. But what he feels he is entitled to get facts wrong, engage in bad scholarship, and a... hmmmm... crass? I like crass here... crass misreading of texts from a patriarchal point of view. Let me say it, Andrew Goodwin is a sexist. Read more…