Country Music Comes to Town: Did anyone in New York care? wonders famed, ahem, editor Deniel Menaker over in Slate today.
Answer: not enough to get Matraca Berg's name right; in this article about New Yorkers' inability to engage with one of the United States' two great contemporary indigenous musical forms, she appears as "Metraca Bird." Fact-checking? Saving the program? Just plain knowing the names of major songwriters in the first place? Well, nothing says "caring" like indifference.
No big deal; she's only written a few songs.
[update: the crack team at Slate has corrected the last-name howler, but seen fit to leave the misspelt prenom intact; one can only care so much, one supposes]
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