Meditations in an Emergency

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Bad taste

Bad taste

Guarding against self-importance

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Jun 11, 2022
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From Kitsch: An Anthology of Bad Taste (1969), by Gillo Dorfles

A few months ago, a magazine editor told me over coffee the best advice he ever received, with regard to publishing, from his mentor, Tina Brown: that no magazine can be great without some bad taste.

Bad taste is cheap. Bad taste is trashy. It’s coarse, sentimental, unconsidered. Rough around…

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