Peter Hyman is a contributing writer at Radar magazine. He writes regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, New York magazine, Details, Slate.com, Spin and The Wall Street Journal. A former staff reporter at Vanity Fair, he is the author of a collection of humor essays entitled The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life (Random House). If you are especially bored, you can learn more at www.pdhyman.com/blog

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This Just In: NYT Discovers Black People Like Music Other Than Hip Hop

Posted January 29, 2007 | 01:45 PM (EST)


reid3.jpgThe formula for the ever-present Trend Story is simple enough. One: Manufacture the idea. Two: Find at least three civilian examples that represent whatever subculture you are "uncovering." Three: Pepper it with a couple of expert quotes which support your contention. Four: Co-opt a...

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