John Bear comes off like a whining fool in his editorial on the iPod jacket. After wasting the first column of his article talking about how hard it was to get the jacket to work (the only part of the article that was actually relevant, by the way), he proceeds to waste the second column of his article denigrating technology and its rapid advancement. Do people in class really text the person sitting next to them? And is he really comparing text messaging to the telegraph? Are you kidding me? "An understanding of this concept continues to elude me." Should have gone without saying, John. Then we get to the meat of the article. Okay, I get it: John is upset because he thinks only rich kids can have iPods. That must make them evil. Of course! Finally, in John's mot insulting piece of writing, he concludes that the key to getting the jacket to work is to be under 21. If this guy is your culture editor, I fear how he will review such criticially acclaimed CDs such as MIA, Kanye West, the emergence of BitTorrent, the Mozilla revolution or...ghast!...the new iPod video. Get someone in the front office that isn't afraid of youth, change, or new technology...or risk coming across like ignorant, conservative old bastards.
Michael Sanchez
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