The meltdown over Ken Bruce's departure is really about something much deeper

'With Bruce’s departure, fans had suddenly lost the reassuring feeling that they were still orbiting a cultural mainstream' 🖋️ TomNicko for ipaperviews

It was nice in the PopMaster group. The clientele tended to be older, and used the internet like it was still 2007: very earnest, very inane, and likely holding their phone at arm’s length while typing with one index finger.

“The new host will be black or wonen [sic] or gay or mixture all three [sic],” said one member, drawing nine likes. The more posts I read, the clearer it was that the tantrum was, like all tantrums, about something deeper than the issue at hand. One listener, Shaun, put it best: “BBC Radio 2 is no longer interested in the middles! I started to notice the tide turning with the ever-increasing [Radio 1 playlist] overlap, I am in my 50s and like to hear sounds from my era, not my kids’.

But we only make the sense of dislocation worse when culture’s tectonic plates shift and react without empathy. And anyway, the same thing will happen to us whippersnappers.

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