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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by GabrielF00 on Monday January 12, 2015 @08:44AM (#8873791)
> “Their plan was just” — he used an expletive perhaps appropriate for his new role at the iconoclastic start-up — “really impressive.”

Gotta love The New York Times. It takes them fourteen words to avoid printing the word "fucking". And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper.

One is reminded of Family Guy's take on The New Yorker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6MyeCXmiKw

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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by scott_s on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:36AM (#8874788)
I think that's less an avoidance of printing the work "fucking", and more a concerted effort to use the word "iconoclastic".
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by k-mcgrady on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:13AM (#8873910)
>> "And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper."

I don't think it's a reference to startups in general but to this particular startup.

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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by cbd1984 on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:01AM (#8874568)
Heaven forfend adults should use adult language.
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by Apocryphon on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:02PM (#8875360)
On the other hand, are vulgarities truly "adult"?
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by zem on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:25PM (#8877757)
insofar as we seem to have a dogmatic insistence that children not use them
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by Ollinson on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:47PM (#8875634)
The New Yorker doesn't shy away from profanity. If you search the magazine archives you'll find many instances of fuck, bitch, asshole, etc.

A simple google search also shows this to be true (fuck site:newyorker.com).

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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by ehmorris on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:06AM (#8874612)
don't forget to check out the annotated version ;) http://genius.com/www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/...
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by tomconroy on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:33AM (#8874361)
Coincidentally, genius.com uses a font (Whitney) that his brother designed.
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by matt_morgan on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:14AM (#8873913)
We still call Genius a "startup"? Founded 2009.
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by kissickas on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:46AM (#8874088)
Even if we can, HN users are likely familiar with Genius. Should we really stick to the original headline so closely in cases like this when the title editorializes more than the clearer alternative "... for Genius"?
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by k-mcgrady on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:26AM (#8874317)
>> "HN users are likely familiar with Genius"

They were on HN A LOT a while back because of all the controversy around them.

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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by grandalf on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:03AM (#8874597)
This is pretty huge. Makes me want to work there.
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by busterarm on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:07AM (#8874621)
Their new Director of Operations is absolutely the nicest person and best manager I've ever worked for in my life.

It's time to start taking this company seriously.

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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by jgalt212 on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:44AM (#8874077)
This reminds of when (then widely respected) Lou Dobbs left CNN to head up space.com

No bubble here, though.

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