related to yesterday's rant

Journalism, Civil Society and 21st Century Reportage « Easily Distracted:

If print journalists want to claim that their saving grace is independent, investigative journalism, they might want to clean house a bit first, because a substantial amount of print journalism doesn’t really live up to that ideal. Getting fed information by a confidential source inside an Administration or inside a business who is using the reporter either to kick a rival in the teeth or as part of a coordinated scheme to float a trial balloon about a hypothetical decision is not independent investigative reporting. It’s a collusive agreement to serve as an unpaid assistant to the public-relations staff of a government or business. Calling a few experts on your Rolodex and plugging them into static paragraphs in an article that otherwise just processes the conventional wisdom of punditry is not independent investigative reporting.

Today's AT40

...is March 9, 1985, 2/3rds through freshman year. I've covered a March 1985 before, but I didn't date that one so I'm not sure if it's the same one.  I didn't do these in # by # detail back then, so there will be more details here.  At any rate, any comments from there will probably still stand if the song is still around on today's.

( 40-21... )

And into the top ten we go with...

• 10 Kool and the Gang are still going with Misled
• 9 Sheena Easton's first Prince-created single, Sugarwalls
• 8 Foreigner wants to know where their guitars went...and what love is, while they're at it.
• 7 Pointer Sisters with one of many Beverly Hills Cop songs, Neutron Dance
• 6 Julian Lennon's Much Too Late For Goodbyes.
• 5 Madonna's namesake, Material Girl, is the biggest jumper in the countdown today.  By this point, I think we were all pretty sure she wasn't going anywhere compared to most pop contemporaries...
• 4 David Lee Roth's "I still have a career, really!" cover of California Girls.
• 3 Glen Fry with the other huge Beverly Hills Cop song, The Heat Is On
• 2 Wham's Careless Whisper, one which, like all Wham songs, I never really heard until after it was already out of the main pop scene. Never did understand why.
  

Making the #1 song of 24 years ago...

1. that cliche-ridden powerballad, drilled back into our consciousness by Hallmark this past year, REO Speedwagon's Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore

g'nite all.  i'm back to cleaning.