the Times reviews a critic

[Doug McGill]

I never met a stupid person at the Times, but I met many who were in thrall to the
power of the place. That's inimical to good writing, yes? In her writing I think
Michiko sounds like a smartypants teacher's pet, who gears her essays to mouth the
professor's favorite buzzwords rather than to get someplace intellectually. It's a
common writing strategy at the Times and a fair amount of writing energy there goes
into masking the smug tone it naturally produces. So just who is the professor and
why does the Times try so inifitely hard to please him, is the big question ...  

d

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> doug mcgill wrote:
> 
> >Not to mention, the Times assigned this piece to the
> >lady who normally reviews novels and has virtually no
> >interest or background in political writing. So the
> >assignment was in itself a slap on the book and its
> >ideas. (I'm a former NYT staff reporter and worked on
> >the culture desk with MK for four years.)
> 
> Is she as dumb as she seems? I ask in part because she's yet another 
> embarrassing Yalie (class of 1976, I think).
> 
> Doug

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