It was not — repeat, not — Beyonce’s fault. It turns out that the Super Bowl’s half-time performer brought her own generator to the Superdome in New Orleans. She was not to blame for the 34-minute blackout that followed soon after her performance, plunging half the stadium into darkness and contributing, perhaps, to the San Francisco 49ers’ short-lived surge against the Baltimore Ravens.
A few days and many press conferences later, there is no definitive answer to what happened. The Ravens eventually won the game, making the blackout seem less of a decisive episode. But the rampant speculation that Beyonce’s electric performance may have literally knocked the lights out is a sad comment on how people respond to unexpected events. Someone must be at fault; a single source of failure must explain it all.
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You might appreciate this from Diana Trilling's New York Review of Books (12/21/1986) review of Steinem's Marilyn:
"But our culture is a blame culture. It prefers to address only those ills that excite our moral indignation and to ignore the terrors of fate."
Isn't it a fact that until something or someone is to blame the problem cannot be solved? It's all part of the analysis.
"The public deserves it?" Please let's have some proportion. Though the Super Bowl is a highly watched event, it is still a for-profit extravaganza of private entertainment, not a government event.
Is there any point to this editorial ?
at least she didn't try and blame it on republicans.