my point is that it is the very nature of the majority of magazines newspapers etc,IS to sell magazines newspapers etc, that means they have to be interesting and on occasions sensational they have to create hype, they have to hype bands up etc etc.they cannot rely entirely upon promoting people purely on merit , because that does not sell so many copies, they have to be constantly finding a new flavour of the month.
in this respect Folk Roots is not alone, But Folk Roots does do this, it has to , to sell copies,IMO Folk Roots does have a policy of featuring young bands regardless of merit, most of them are good, but the deciding factor, why they are featured, is their youth., someone young and sexy sells copies .
that to me is no more acceptable, than someone being featured or not featured because of their race
this has nothing to do with egos or any personal crap,as I have stated before I get on perfectly well with Ian Anderson.