tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post546259736384258281..comments2023-07-02T05:14:05.375-04:00Comments on The Clyde Fitch Report: Moving On IIILeonard Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736316792887920991noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-10719660000150368312007-09-01T20:54:00.000-04:002007-09-01T20:54:00.000-04:00You did leave a word out, and no, it wasn't clear ...You did leave a word out, and no, it wasn't clear from your comment.<BR/><BR/>And if you've read the blog, you know I am also in favor of bloggers being on the first- or second-night lists here in NYC. If you haven't seen those posts, please let me know and I will send them to you in their entirety.<BR/><BR/>It seems unbecoming to discuss my orifices, or yours.<BR/><BR/>My denunciation is neither weird nor hysterical -- your cavalier dismissal of the subjet is short-sighted and ignorant. And my issue is with anyone who reviewed the show, period. If you want me to find all of them and call all of them out, is that not an invitation to more accusations of weirdness and hysteria?<BR/><BR/>And I have no fear whatsoever about losing my job. Period. None. Whatsoever. <BR/><BR/>And as I have said repeatedly -- and as I will continue to say -- it is not about "authority." It is about ethics. You are free to disagree, and free to be wrong.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and I've already written my reviews for this week, thanks. Care to have all the links to those? Probably not is my guess.<BR/><BR/>Pip Pip.Leonard Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14736316792887920991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-78279050984303126742007-09-01T18:29:00.000-04:002007-09-01T18:29:00.000-04:00Leonard, quite clearly I left an important word ou...Leonard, quite clearly I left an important word out - that if you thought that bloggers should NOT be "separate but equal". A typo that was quite clear from the context. If that's the case, as I said, then bloggers should get opening night invites like everyone else. End of story.<BR/><BR/>I worked as a professional msm journalist for a decade. I am now a totally msm theatre critic (I am the Melbourne critic for the national daily broadsheet). You're talking through the wrong orifice.<BR/><BR/>All I can see in your weirdly hysterical denunciation of George (but not, I note, of other bloggers who also - albeit favourably - reviewed the show) is fear that you will somehow lose your job. Or your "authority". Whatever. I have a review to write for my newspaper and then another for my blog. Pip pip.Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-58143692236563192642007-09-01T15:07:00.000-04:002007-09-01T15:07:00.000-04:00The point is that in permitting and -- to my mind ...The point is that in permitting and -- to my mind -- encouraging reviews or anything else of a critical nature to be written and posted, they WERE press tickets. Playwrights Horizons can take this disingenuous stance that they are not press tickets, but they are, and standards of ethical conduct must be expected of anyone who accepts those professional comps in exchange for posting something, including reviews.<BR/><BR/>Maybe y'all aren't getting it, but even though I've spelled this out several times now, let me do it once again: If blogger-critics are good enough and valuable enough to be given professional comps, then blogger-critics should be viewed and considered part of the critic and journalist community and put on the first- or second-night lists along with everyone else. <BR/><BR/>Blogger-critics are not, and must not be treated as, a second class of citizens -- hence my harping on the "separate but equal" analogy, which is entirely apt, in my view. (Matt Freeman can disagree all he wants -- I'm still using it.) As I've also said many times already, more than 50% of the supposed MSM critics and journalists out there are freelancers -- no more and no less a writer first than any of the bloggers. As I've also said repeatedly, to state that because I happen to have a full-time job as a critic-writer does not mean I'm not a critic-writer first. If you think I've really got some sort of "institutional backing," you don't know much about what's really happening in contemporary American arts journalism.<BR/><BR/>Again: I want blogger-critics to be part of the fray, equal and equally valued, not some relegated second class. And yes, that would mean adhering to the same ethical standards as everyone else. It wouldn't be so terrible. It would give blogger-critics tremendous respect, power and influence. And I support that 100%.Leonard Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14736316792887920991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36864475.post-54842872670077370362007-09-01T14:51:00.000-04:002007-09-01T14:51:00.000-04:00You should watch Deadwood. You'd like it. :)Did w...You should watch Deadwood. You'd like it. :)<BR/><BR/>Did want to clarify the "apparently," though. I'm not a "defender of all things George Hunka." I think (and I posted so on his site) that his review was irresponsibly misleading. It only seems like I'm defending him because I'm speaking about my own association to this so-called problem and my own stance on comp tickets (not press tickets, mind you). But hey, carry on.Aaron Ricciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05003634532469211190noreply@blogger.com