Me, too. I haven't been able to read many of the comments here or elsewhere, so pardon me if I repeat something, but...
NME. How many musicians of colour turn up in their pages? A cursory visit to the NME web site reveals...surprise, surprise! A whole bunch of white bands!!! Nearly all of the interesting music happening in London now is coming from immigrant communities or a product of the fusion between pop music and traditional styles, yet you wouldn't know it by reading NME's paltry coverage. Anybody think that's a little, erm, rrrrrrrrridiculous???! Tricked you there, you thought I was going to call them racists, didn't ya?
Lastly, if, as the paper's noxious, forked-tongued editor said in his letter to Merc, "the language Morrissey uses is very unhelpful at a time of great tensions," then why did they attempt to use the Morrissey article to inflame such tensions, hmmm?
Hogwash.
Viva Moz