Joni Mitchell News: Negative Nellies At The New York Times [Joni Mitchell]

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Former New York Times journalist John Rockwell writes about being pressured to be positive or, in his case, negative by editors. His Grey Lady editor equated negativity with controversy and more readers, and subsequently pushed him to make a negative Joni Mitchell review even more scathing:

I remember a piece I wrote about Joni Mitchell's CD of orchestrally accompanied versions of some of her finest songs. I hated it: I thought it was pompous and leaden. But an editor came up to me eagerly after he'd read what I turned in and pushed me to expand it and sharpen it....