Re: Looping back to Krispen's old critics thread (was sorta: usinglaptops formusic"

["joe rut" <joerut@lycos.com>]

I've often felt (cynic alert) that that is the exact intent if many 
reviewers, particularly in weekly rags where getting people riled up 
enough to write a 
lette to the editor is all part of the game plan.

Joe


>Making value statements disguised as factual statements gets
>people stoked and look really
>insightful and cool, but also piss everyone off that holds the 
>contradictory
>value statement.  The point
>is that writers are smart enough to discern between these two domains of
>writing and now how to
>be insightful without irritating the shit out of 50% of their readers.


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