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Critics ignore audience

With regard to the article, “Critical condition: Critics nearly extinct,” by Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times (News & Record, April 24): His final paragraph, wherein he tells us to “pay more attention to the audience,” has it exactly wrong. Critics who pay attention to the audience are pandering.

Critics are not supposed to pander. They can’t be critical if they do so.

Mark D. Gottsegen
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THE LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Mark,
I'm gonna miss you when you move. The faculty at UNCG and the community at large will miss you too.
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You are on point in your letter. The homophobes, racists, and otherwise right wing folks on these threads can't take ANY criticism. Believe me, I've been giving it to them!

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