In a message dated 12/11/2008 6:22:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, dgoodmanny@gmail.com writes:
We get articles rejected at afd every day because there is no outside criticism. >>
--------------------- We have no outside criticism of say "The Mississippi River", that doesn't mean it's rejected at AFD. Can you cite a popular culture article that was rejected for lack of outside critcism? I'm not even sure I know what this means. Isn't all criticism "outside"?
I suppose I could criticize myself. Or are you saying "inside" would include all popular media?
I'm not suggesting we ignore "academic" criticism in pop articles. Only that it has it's place as a minority viewpoint. A movie star is not mainly a subject of academic debate and we shouldn't weight academic views higher than others, simply because they are academic or peer-reviewed in those articles.
Pop culture articles should be mainly about describing the subject and why the subject is notable. Criticism has it's place, but it shouldn't swamp the article, but rather be treated as perhaps one paragraph out of ten.
Will Johnson
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