John Cook in
Slate on Sasha Frere-Jones' weird campaign to dub The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merrit a racist for not liking hip-hop music:
It would be one thing if Frere-Jones were just some disgruntled OutKast fan with a MySpace page. But he is in fact a disgruntled OutKast fan with access to The New Yorker's pages and all the credibility and authority that go along with that. He ought to take the things he writes on his blog seriously.
I confess The Magnetic Fields' "I Need a New Heart" is playing as I type these words, so maybe mine is not the most objective opinion you could get on this issue, but it's a great article,
go read.