Morrissey Receives Apology For Being Labelled A Racist - But Not From The NME
April 3, 2008 by Dave Parrack
NME magazine published an interview with Morrissey at the end of last year where, amongst other things, he spoke about immigration. The comments he made seemed to be verging on racist, or condoning racism, but Morrissey insisted that they had been taken out of context and edited to show him in a bad light.
Tim Jonze, the journalist that conducted the interview, seemed to back up Morrissey’s claims of misrepresentation when he requested that his credit for the piece were removed from the article due to it being re-worked by the editorial team.
Morrissey threatened and then started legal action against the NME, and that is still ongoing at this present time. However, he also took Word magazine to court after it repeated the allegations in a later article about the singer and the NME story.
Today, Morrissey won the case against the magazine, and received an apology for it at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
b5 Media Music Channel Blogger Spotlight: Meet Deborah Ng Of She Plays Music
February 13, 2008 by Dave Parrack
Brit Music Scene remains the best blog on the b5 media network, but there are a lot of other brilliant blogs across the network, and some of the best are those in the music channel.
Mike Laba decided it was time we all got to know each other a bit better, and so is slowly but surely working his way around all of us conducting interviews.
This week’s focus is on Deb Ng, who writes She Plays Music, a log dedicated to female singers, and artists. Is that a bit sexist? Only in the way Brit Music Scene could be described as a bit racist… which it’s not.