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New York Times journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis learned really quickly how to get an interview with Nicki Minaj shut down, and she wrote about it in her recent piece:The Passion of Nicki. Our pop culture experts, professors Rachel Rubin and Michael Jeffries joined Callie Crossley to discuss Nicki Minaj's treatment in the pages of the New York Times, plus Jennifer Lawrence's open letter to Hollywood following the Sony hack that revealed just how much more her male costars were making, and a disturbing trend at South by Southwest.

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