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Tuesday, June 03, 2003
"Ideas" man. MediaBistro.com
has a
Q&A with Alex Star,
editor of the Globe's "Ideas" section. (Via Romenesko.)
In the nine or so months that
"Ideas" has been coming out, I haven't quite known what to make of
it. I know people who love it; and I know people who really, really
hate it. If pressed against the wall and forced to give an answer, I
guess I'd say I like it, but not all the time, and that in some
respects it still doesn't feel like it's quite gelled.
"Ideas" runs some terrific stuff.
At the same time, I'd like to see more policy pieces, especially on
local issues. In other words, maybe move it just a bit toward what
was offered by the old "Focus" section, which it replaced.
Anyway, Star comes across in the
interview as smart and interesting.
And here is my favorite chunk from
"Ideas" since its debut, a hilarious meditation on old age headlined
"Would You Let Your Grandmother Marry a Rolling Stone?", published
last October and written by Joe Sacco and Gerry Mohr:
Perhaps you prefer the
implacable dignity of Bob Dylan, who, in recent years, has recast
himself as a romantically world-weary and crusty old man. This
might be how you like to imagine yourself aging -- wisely, your
face to the wind, with, as Shakespeare's Prospero mused, "every
third thought [about the] grave." The Stones, on the other
hand, are aging pretty much how you are likely to -- gracelessly,
scared witless, clutching and clawing at the years that run
through your fingers, dancing like a maniac when you think someone
half your age is watching, and generally making yourself a
laughingstock.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
