Lately we've had to strike that balance more and more:
Two rock icons (the Who's Pete Townshend and producer
Phil Spector) were arrested recently, Townshend during
an Internet child-porn sting, and Spector after a
shooting death in his home.
"I think the Townshend thing will be a small stain,"
says Louis Black, editor of The Austin Chronicle and a
director of the South By Southwest music festival. "In
50 years, this won't define him, because rock writers
don't want to believe it -- whereas we want some
people to get their comeuppance, like Martha Stewart.
Some people are Teflon and some people aren't.