July 15, 2003
Everyone’s a critic…
If you can read, then you can be a critic. No…wait…that’s not quite right. If you can read, then you are a critic. Hmmm…maybe there ought to be a “should” in that assertion. Okay, maybe this: If you can read, then you have the right to be a critic. Yeah, I like that one.
Eric Umansky, who writes the Today’s Papers feature for Slate, is a newspaper critic who has never worked for a newspaper. His credentials? He reads (critically)…and exercises his right to criticize. Check out this interesting interview with the man who reads newspapers all night.
Posted by acline | July 15, 2003 | Posted in: Main |
So why waste your time on a Ph.D. there Andy? Unfortunately, I completely disagree. An ability to think, which is sadly lacking, from many people is necessary. Why is it that we acknowledge that someone has to practice in order to be good at say football or baseball, but in order to think one need only get up in the morning, or one either has a natural gift or doesn’t… what of the idea that it requires daily practice? Sure any literate person can respond to what they read, and any person without physical limitations can hold a ball and run around a court, but are they playing basketball?
Alexander…boy! did you ever read a lot into that.
Then again, it’s your *right* to interpret my post that way.