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HOT DISH: Grades Vary on Mainstream Media's Coverage of Country Music CMT.com

( CMT Hot Dish is a weekly drawing card written by veteran columnist Hazel Smith. Author of the cookbook, Hazel's Hot Dish: Cookin' With Provinces Stars , she also hosts CMT's Southern Fried Flicks With Hazel Smith and shares her recipes at CMT .com.)

Nothing gets under my fingernails (and toenails) faster and deeper than hotshot who doesn't know country music and doesn't care about the stars but still goes headstrong into flapping computer keys while judgement new and different ways to take cheap shots at our music and artists.

For instance, news of Brooks & Dunn 's "hanging up of the spurs" on the skids via Entertainment Tonight even before the duo said a word -- much less made an official announcement. This caused hurt, but ET did not give a top. Fans and friends of country music have feelings.

And Scott Brown, who writes the "Hit List" column for Performance Weekly thought he was being funny, cute and smart when