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New Poll - To crit or not to crit

Mon, 21 July 2003, 03:37 pm
crgwllms18 posts in thread
I don't know whether this suggestion was prompted by a recent production...?

"You see a show;you have friends in it. You think it was crap. Do you congratulate everyone and publish nothing? Yes/No. "




There are probably other options not catered for in this poll, but which may bear discussion here.


The Poll-tergeist

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Re: viewing those crit'ers

Fri, 25 July 2003, 11:16 am
Walter Plinge
I tend to take *all* reviewers with a very large rock of salt, given that they express a single opinion that can vary wildly from the majority of opinions about a show, either in one direction or another.
I personally find Geoff Gibbs much, much harsher about shows he dislikes that other local critics, and do think he holds a tendency to write overly savage reviews when simply negative ones would do. But hey, that's just my opinion.

There's a big argument I think towards not printing negative reviews at all, since there's little worth in them beyond being able to write some really amusing and witty variations on "this show's a bit crap". After all, why waste valuable column inches on something unworthy of attention when you could use that space to rave about a genuinely good show elsewhere in town?

Grant.

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