Given the recent stir about Hillary Clinton's fast-food habits and her failure to tip at Chipotle, this shallowness might a problem with the media, not music, but there is also something more pernicious at work.
Of course, there is a pernicious logic at work here.
Greenwald says the underlying premise of the question, that a journalist working with a source to tell a vital story based on sensitive information may be a criminal act, is pernicious to the work of truth-telling and chilling to investigative journalism as an enterprise.
But pernicious forces were at work.
Less starry-eyed observers think that a more pernicious process is at work.
And after years of accolades and unstinting praise, Pullman is finally getting his wish for controversy: the far right is attacking his work as pernicious, evil, anti-God and basically the kiddie version of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.
He has warned us about how corporate and government encroachments can, and have, limited our choices in pernicious ways, and has worked tirelessly for freedom in ways that we all need to understand.
But what Sky doesn't tell you is this: during that period information has emerged to confirm the real, negative effects of the series, which spins the pernicious message that "torture works" and is a legitimate tool in the fight to protect national security.
But "the most pernicious aspect of private medical work … is the indirect effect it has on a consultant's NHS practice.
The enmity between Susan and Todd, and later between their daughters, Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Millicent Todd Bingham (each of whom edited selections of Dickinson's work), had a pernicious effect on the presentation of Emily Dickinson's work.
