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M.I.A.'s Agitprop Pop. ⇒

   27 May 2010, late morning

Apparently M.I.A. disliked the article so much she posted the reporter’s cell phone number on her Twitter page. There are plenty of amusing juxtapositions.

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Comments

  1. It was a trap!

    by ramanan on June 3 2010, 8:47 am   #

  2. V.V. Ganeshananthan on this MIA story.

    by ramanan on June 3 2010, 2:58 pm   #

  3. MTV notes that the NYT has added an editors note to the original article, stating they might have pulled a Hard Copy here. Of course, if you read the other articles linked you'll see there is probably a lot more that should be included in their note.

    by ramanan on June 3 2010, 3:20 pm   #

  4. This is actually one of the first things Hirschberg gets dead wrong about her subject; she seems to see something interesting or contradictory in talking about global poverty while sitting in safety eating nice food. Which is weird, because you’d think anyone even passingly familiar with either hip-hop or immigrants would see why this isn’t unusual. (And why the “radical chic” dynamic the headline points to is long past its prime.)

    — Why we fight #4 – The Trouble with Maya by Nitsuh Abebe

    by ramanan on June 4 2010, 11:19 am   #

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