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Some would have big media erect Fifth Columns within their walls, but navel-gazing doesn't automatically impress, as the Times-Mirror flagship Los Angeles Times learned after publishing a 30,000-word self-examination on the Staples Center scandal.
The Sex Pistols, of course, are incomprehensible without a glance at the two-track uniformity of mid-to-late 1970s music: lugubrious, 11-minute-long navel-gazing guitar dirges by the Eagles and Jackson Browne on one hand; ad jingles like "Undercover Angel" and "Heartbeat--It's a Love Beat" on the other.
And navel-gazing literary critics let them get away with it!
Now it just comes across as a new form of navel-gazing.
All this grim navel-gazing here in San Francisco (not to mention all that fiber) is enough to make a West Coast reader reach first for the New York Times on Monday morning only to discover that her own profession is in decline.