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> random people with typical (or at best, idiosyncratic) opinions, > highly-educated professionals who saw the role of the critic as something worthy in itself
by Dracophoenix 2y ago
> random people with typical (or at best, idiosyncratic) opinions,
> highly-educated professionals who saw the role of the critic as something worthy in itself.
Which one then describes men like George Plimpton, Gore Vidal, or Alistair Cooke? The distinction you've made is unclear and unsubstantiated.
- keiferski 2y agoThe latter. I don’t think any YouTube movie reviewer is remotely close to someone like Gore Vidal’s level of erudition. (And even he had plenty of faults.) Maybe Every Frame a Painting is the closest thing?
- galleywest200 2y agoEvery? No. Some? Yes. But not every "professional" critic was worth paying any amount of time to eiter. Just because your brother worked at the paper you got to be "the critic" back then.