CRITICS: Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't teach, criticize and make believe they're qualified to tell others what they're doing wrong.
(Please note at this point that I'm not lumping "critical assessment by an individual experienced in the field in question" in with "I watch a lot of golf so I know more than Tiger Woods, so I'll give him two-cents worth.")
It's not that critics are always wrong in their assessment, it's just that they're so seldom practitioners of whatever they are critiquing. Very few film critics have ever directed a film, very few art critics can paint, and few music critics have cut an album. Since when do critics have the cojones to get up on stage and bare their souls and dreams and talent for a room of complete strangers?
Now, do these critics have a right to trash on the efforts of others? In the days before the internet and web logs, a publisher usually made that decision based on the resume and samples submitted by the critic, but now that my half-literate chimp with a keyboard connected to the 'net can write and publish their thoughts and opinions with no professional, discerning filter between them and their readers, their textual, audio and even video diarrhea is available to all and sundry at the click of a mouse or the tip of an iTouch screen.
And so, a cesspool of opinions sprinkled with few-and-far-between gems of wisdom is the price we pay for allowing free access to the world for anyone able to type "in my opinion". Right or wrong, that's the way it is and we have no choice but to suck it up and not waste time supporting it.
Then again, what qualifications should one have to criticize the critics? I have no idea.
That's just my opinion *LOL*
Cheers,
Tim Reynolds.
Author of Stand Up & Succeed
www.StandUpAndSucceed.com
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