Reaching a Critical Mass

Preface

 

Very few of us will be employed as professional television critics. There is, after all, an increasingly small number of local newspapers across the country to house TV critics, and many papers choose to purchase syndicated columns of criticism and review rather than to employ their own columnist. Even fewer of us will unseat the well-situated and firmly established critics at national newspapers and magazines, whose columns and reviews are often syndicated—the Jeff Jarvises (TV Guide), Bill Carters (New York Times), Tom Shales (The Washington Post), Richard Zoglins (Time), John Leonards (New York magazine), and James MacGregors ...