criticism
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The popular understanding of what a critic does is that a critic tells you whether something is good or bad. But that is the least interesting part of a critic’s job, when all is said and done, because two critics can see the same movie, agree largely on its strengths and flaws, then weight them
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A thread from Twitter, begun as a simple response to someone else's tweet on Thursday… Jobs I did before full-time professional* journalism: BabysitterFloor cleaning/maintenanceBusboyDishwasherKitchen prepRecord store clerkRadio program hostPublicist (* but also wrote for my college paper and freelanced for alt-weeklies mag long before that…) https://t.co/WrBpsT9mXm — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) July 12, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js After