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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Media's Obsession With Apologies

i think that this rush to sort of save these women is not only a bad way of thinking of what criticism or art that's a documentary or fictionalization should do but i think it also kind of paradoxically makes the real like subject of these pieces is the media. I'm doing very hard air quotes right now about how indulgent they are we're gonna have to apologize for all the apology documentaries exactly because you wrote about pam and tommy about the pamela anderson and tommy lee sextape the hulu thing was about.

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