1 Boiled Twine Wired, with its on-line twin HotWired, is probably the best magazine of the New Edge, so let's start with the faults. Both Wireds are advertising-supported magazines. Since taste may well be arbitrary, I am willing to leave this point to one side if need be.
Journalism is another matter.
Even if we granted them twenty, it wouldn't help, for most of the articles are really no better than those in The Atlantic or Mother Jones. Mr. Marshall seems to be claiming that zippies will metastasize across the globe, because they listen to electronic music, take drugs and have some vague millenarian notions. The East Is Red being a very satisfactory substitute for house music, and revolutionary fervor for more chemical ecstasy. This was barely touched upon for those who were the nucleus of this movement, and not at all for the late-comers, who form, by the estimates of Marshall's authorities, about half of the 200,000 zippies. Mr. Marshall says deserve Thatcher Awards came from.