A bold title. True? Not so much so.
Lets start with the term rock - while watching my first episode of the reality show ‘married to rock’ it dawned me that being a rock star, and even being married to one is not as easy as it may seem. Sure you have no financial boundaries, but it is when the ethical and moral boundaries are stretched that the marriage is tested. Maybe they should have warned these wives from the starting point what it would be like.
The term rock music is a form of popular music that evolved from rock and roll and pop music during the mid and late 1960’s. It was initially characterised by experimentation and drug related or anti establishment lyrics. So what makes us think that a journalist living in a completely different world can understand the mind of a rocker who’s entire history supports the taking down of such establishments? They don’t!
So in my opinion it is not the journalists that can’t write, they just don’t understand - the exact same thing would happen should you ask me to write an article on engineering, or even worse an article on Steven Tyler.
I would argue that it is of vital importance that the journalist should have a sound knowledge of or at least a minimum understanding of rock music in order to make the printed materail credible.
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