The mainstream media just doesn't get it
Just a short little rant here...
After a quick look through Google News and other sources, it seems all the big media outlets care to talk about when it comes to the Coachella Festival, 2006, is Madonna. If you were to trust the articles, you'd think it was the Madonna Festival, not an indie-rock/hip-hop and dance festival. I'm not exactly upset about this, I just think it's odd. I mean, the festival just finished its seventh go, and since 1999 it has been gaining international attention, recognition, and applause. And despite all that, despite the combined power of the dozens of other artists on the bill, the celebrity of Madonna was enough to trump all else in the eyes of the non-music, mainstream media. A most odd situation.
posted by Zac @ 9:37 PM
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3 Comments:
But, um, I don't think the mainstream media is the one making the decision that Madonna's star shines so bright. I think if you took a cross-section of just about anywhere and gave them the list of performers from Coachella, asked them who they knew/liked, she'd easily top the combined list--if only by widespread recognition alone.
I'm pretty sure that's a fact and not an opinion.
Madonna appearing at Coachella was news--perhaps not for the underground music folks, but certainly for the mainstream which the mainstream media was written for anyway.
And I don't think it's fair to say the media don't get it.
I'm sure nearly every music-beat reporter who had to hit the Madonna angle on Coachella were smacking their foreheads along with you.
They just didn't get to express their music-geek take as if it were the big news of the day.
Because the news is what affects people--and you said yourself the swarm of people headed toward Madonna's tent was crazy...
I just think it's weird that celebrity is such a bloody powerful force. Amazing, really...
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