Re: Best Animated Film Oscar Sucks! (was: Re: Kornheiser Hates Cartoons! Hate Radio for the Soul <g>)

> On Jul 10, 3:01 pm, Primordial Ooze <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > critics are much more than people simply stating their opinion...

But that is exactly what they *are* doing. The only reason why they get
paid for doing it is that somebody believes that their opinion is likely
to be informed (they have a reasonable track record in whichever area of
criticism they are in) and relevant (they have actually watched it rather
than taken their own cue from somebody else), and that it is likely to be
a reasonable reflection of what the populous might think (rather than
influenced by their own personal biases). 

The trouble is that critics can only be subjective as there is no way to
be anything else in the business of media criticism, which is why they can
be wrong. The hope is that they are wrong less of the time but there is no
cast-iron guarantee of this.

You can minimise the possibility of a bum steer from one critic by
averaging out the response of a number of critics but there is only one
way to find out how you will ultimately respond to any given media
product, and that is to try it for yourself.

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