Pop Goes the World  Article by Erin Keating, Skarlet Fever, Kate
Baggott, Claudine Zap, published in 2007; filed under Social
commentary. Looking at pop culture in the wake of 9-11  It's
been almost three months since September 11, and while the
onslaught of the holidays (and for those of us around the Bitch
HQ , the onslaught of production on a new issue) has provided a
bit of distraction, it's still almost impossible not to feel
that our jobs, our ambitions, and our daily dramas have been
permanently dwarfed by the sadness and horror of everything that
happened that day and everything that's happened since. Without
a news editor or an investigative reporting staff, Bitch is at
something of a loss for words. We don't want to say nothing, but
we're also wary of regurgitating the clichés—sincere though they
are—that have come thick and fast in non-news magazines since
9-11. We've always written with the goal of fomenting activism,
and now more than ever strive to bring you information about
independent media a