Up In Here, Up In Here

One of the fun things about media criticism is cataloging the various ways journalists label individuals and organizations in those helpful little comma separated indicators that always follow introductions. Most of the time, you get pablum like "National Review, an influential conservative opinion magazine," or "Superman, the iconic comic book hero," which pretty much tell you nothing you don't already know. But occassionally you can find unexpected absurdist gems like the one from this New York Times article which describes actor/rapper DMX as simply "the dog obsessed rapper from Yonkers." Well. Okay. I suppose it's accurate. But somehow this strikes me as akin to labeling Bush the Elder as "the broccoli-hating former politician from Texas."