Eminem v. Pynchon

[Otto]

Being banned from MTV today means the same as being not played on the radio
in the seventies (like Zappa and many more others), agreed?

So I think it really says something about Eminem's importance, but not
necessarily about his artistic quality.

I'm very much interested in the meaning of that last sentence about General
Motors.

Otto

>Woody wrote:
> Being exiled from MTV does not necessarily guarantee outsider status for
> Eminem. He's like pornography in many ways: sure, he doesn't get much
> mainstream airplay but everyone knows about him and it's very easy to
locate
> his product; we couldn't safely call his work 'entertainment' if it were
any
> other way. But maybe the boundaries we're using here are somewhat
outdated.
> After all, the world's largest pornography distributor is General Motors.
>