I read Jonah Weiner. If someone with no sense of taste can make it as a major music critic, hell, truly anything is possible.

Was he the one who wrote that piece on Limp Bizkit a while back, saying they're not so bad, either?

Dude needs new ears.

yes. Not to mention praising Miley Cyrus and saying that Pearl Jam hadn't released anything of note since 1994

Seriously?
Did he not listen to Binaural? No Code? Yield? Really?

And Miley is as awful as her daddy. Her "music" is even fit only for deaf pre-teens.
What's this guy going to do next, fellate the Jonas Brothers? ...Or has he done that already, too?

I see it as some post-modern joke, where he argues a position that is so utterly indefensible it exposes the absurdity of popular music criticism generally.

I'm going to contact my niece and see if she's got any of her old New Kids On The Block cassettes lying around. I have a feeling their may have been something groundbreaking going on there and I was just too much of an elitist snob to recognize it.

Don't forget how much he loves Paramore.