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A Case Against Critics?
John Podhoretz suggests at the Weekly Standard that the "deprofessionalization" of movie critics is a good thing and that newspapers haven't produced more than a dozen or so worthwhile critics in the history of newspapers. His point seems to be that professional critics are worse than amateurs because as "experts" they are inherently out-of-touch with the regular folk who like movies. yes, yes, it's tiresome. More about his argument here at my blog.
Shouldn't his sorry argument extend to professional rightwing pundits and columnists as well? Because if you wanna talk about a worthless bunch of out-of-touch so-called "experts" ...