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Pop Journalism: Write or Wrong?

Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 24 May 1986

Is it pop we're disillusioned with, or pop journalism? Is Paul Morley the curse or the saviour of the scribbling classes? Frank Owen takes a long, hard look at the struggle towards a new critical aesthetic suitable to this era of rampant consumerism.

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