"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read" (Frank Zappa)

What utter shit! Sorry, but this one really got my goat up. What an arrogant, ridiculous statement. Any journalist worth his/her salt will succeed in gripping the interest of a reader through a well-written piece where all the journalism principles that apply would have been incorporated prior to the material going to print. By denigrating the efforts of rock journalism implies that rock journalists are lesser beings, and horror of horrors aim their work at people who are even lesser still.  Like journalists in any other realm, rock journalists have to know their onions for their efforts to be believable and well received by their rocker audience.  So the next time some idiot thinks they can castigate rock journalists willy-nilly, I say "to hell with them, rock journalism rocks the world of rockers - big time"!!!!