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Loading ...I love seeing a mainstream expert get all defensive when it comes to being a critic. In short, according to Mr. Richard Schicke of the Los Angeles Times, being a critic is being expert while having an opinion is being a blogger. Such sweet hubris. Sweet Richard Schicke, poor dinosaur!
Let me put this bluntly, in language even a busy blogger can understand: Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions of a book (or any other cultural object). It is work that requires disciplined taste, historical and theoretical knowledge and a fairly deep sense of the author’s (or filmmaker’s or painter’s) entire body of work, among other qualities. (via Los Angeles Times)
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Heh.
While I would be willing to concede he has a point, his elitist attack on a blogger as “a former quality-control manager for a car parts maker, last year wrote 95 book reviews for his website” shows his true colors.
Of note: There was a recent wind competiton in California between hundreds of whites. The testing was done blind. The winner? Charles Shaw, other wise known as “Two Buck Chuck”, available only at Trader Joe’s. It retails between $1.99 to $2.99.
Heh.