Rick Beato Versus the NY Times

Rick Beato Versus the NY Times Fifteen days ago, the New York Times published its list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Since then, all hell has broken loose in the music world. And in the last 48 hours, that Hades just got a lot hotter.I’d been one of the 250 “music insiders” surveyed by the Times for the article—so the day after the list was published I shared my ballot here.I was unhappy with the results, as were many other music fans. But that might have been the end of the story. Surveys are always a bit dodgy—but what can you do about it?Then I took time to learn about the Times methodology and was even more dismayed. In fact, I was miffed.If you want to support my work, please take out a premium subscription (just $6 per month).Subscribe nowI assumed that I was voting for the songwriters who would be included in the list. But I now see that the experts consulted by the Times only got to make nominations. The final 30 names were chosen