The Decline of Criticism, Part Two Billion

I read this article at NYMag—“Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?,” by Charlotte Klein—and I found it sort of annoying. Then a friend sent it to me asking what I thought of it and I said I thought it was kind of annoying. Then a separate friend sent it to me asking me what I thought of it and at that point though my answer remained “this is kind of annoying” I sort of felt like OK, fine. I will etch my annoyance in a medium that is less lasting than bronze, i.e., email. Here we are.