May 4, 2001

Arts Journalists: Heed Pop Scholarship

By CARLIN ROMANO

Pity poor David Gudelunas. Not long ago he ruled, shooting off his mouth about popular culture in the role newspaper journalists consider the cleverest, coolest position you can have: wiseguy newspaper journalist. He not only wrote an advice column ("Dear Tiffany," inherited from his female predecessor) for his undergraduate paper at the University of San Francisco; he was executive editor.

But then, like many a member of Generation "Why" -- those oddball college grads in every era who

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