This kind of complaint sounds to me a bit like a cliché at this point and really hoping to read an in-depth article on John Zorn in Downbeat, for instance, is pretty absurd. Maybe his name will appear every once in a while, but feeling outraged because the writer didn't even try to scratch the surface is pointless.
It's ironic that you should mention that...I heard the name John Zorn and then I saw the article in Jazz Times juxtaposing the two "leaders" of modern jazz: Zorn and Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis came out as a big asshole--claiming that it ain't jazz if it ain't got [his] swing--in the article whereas Zorn sounded pretty cool. The gold plated trumpet set against Zorn's beat up horn in a rat hole of a case said it best. That solidified my interest in Zorn (and my distaste for Marsalis), no turning back now. Though, I will concede that the article was far from in-depth, but it was more than adequate for a newbie. Honestly, do you think a Zorn list subscriber will learn all that much from a magazine interview/article about the man? Zach