Canadian Psycho (with apologies to your neighborhood movie marquee)

[Elmer Elevator <bobmer@javanet.com>]

Well, this is bad news for everybody.

Until this thread, as a journalist, I would have told you that your best and
near-ironclad defense against becoming a target of tabloid sensationalism was to
choose a career in the sciences, accounting, or classical music and the high
arts. People thumbing through magazines at the supermarket checkout counter were
always presumed to be bored to death about the personal lives and quirks of
biochemists, astrophysicists, or people who perform classical music. Even a
Nobel Prize biochemist who merrily admits to a lifetime of Northern California
habits has had no luck making it into the pages of the tabloids. (I guess they'd
first have to explain the Polymerase Chain Reaction to their readers before they
got to the LSD and the hot tubs.)

A fundament of USA and Anglo-Saxon libel laws is that it's impossible to libel
the dead. Once you clock out and move on, anyone can write or say anything about
you, and you (obviously, but also your family) have no right to sue. I suspect
"Scala" operates under this same rule.

But apparently there's now a niche for sensationalism about people who perform
Bach. It's a new world -- and to coin a phrase -- O Cowardly New World!

Bob Merkin
Elmer Elevator's Discount Prep:
http://www.javanet.com/~bobmer/

"Sven-S. Porst" wrote:

> > Can you tell us the name of the German magazine? Maybe the German members
> > of F-Minor can tell us whether it's a respectable publication that should
> > have known better than to use such a term... or a tabloid publication that
> > is living up to its usual (lack) of standards.
>
> I just looked at the website Anne pointed out and I think the mentioned
> publication 'Scala' is one of the more popular/lower quality ones. The
> name is subtitled by 'all about classics and jazz' but in hte material on
> the website these are accompanied by 'musical' and 'crossover' as
> well. Having a brief look at the contents of the magazine offered on the
> website this lists

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