Everybody’s a Critic

“Criticism – and its humble cousin, reviewing – is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions…It is work that requires disciplined taste, historical and theoretical knowledge and a failry deep sense of the author’s (or filmmaker’s or painters’s) entire body of work, among other qualities.”  – Richard Schickel, as quoted by Robert Sietsema in CJR

I’m just sayin.’  According to this criteria, I’m not sure where I’d fall.