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Entertainment Weekly Best-Albums List Reveals Every Problem With (And Advantage Of) General-Interest Listicles [Somethin 4 The Weekend]
Posted on June 20, 2008
Despite sagging page counts, general print-media malaise, and the fact that they're still saddled with that Diablo Cody column, Entertainment Weekly found reason to celebrate this week: It's the magazine's 1,000th issue, and in honor of that milestone the editorial team there put together a buttload of lists of New Classics, arbitrary best-of rundowns that supposedly quantify the best pieces of pop culture of the past 25 years. The list-craziness is apparently the latest step in EW's plan to turn itself into a printed-and-stapled blog, which has resulted in more meandering first-person front...
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