Preemptive critics is an unprofessional idea
Editor,
Recently it has come to my attention that the Statesman is headed in a
very bad direction. This direction has manifested itself in a little article
called The Preemptive Critic. Now The Preemptive Critic seems harmless at
first, but it is definitely terrible and ill-conceived. It sets a new
standard for judging something without any knowledge of it. For those who
have yet to happen upon this abomination, The Preemptive Critic is a couple
short reviews of movies that have yet to be released. How are they reviewed,
you ask? Well, the reviewers base their reviews almost entirely on hearsay.
Rumor, the movie’s trailer, and the director’s previous movies make up the
“review.” There is nothing substantive whatsoever in The Preemptive Critic.
This leads me to ask two questions: 1) why is this printed? and 2) if they
haven’t even watched the movie, what exactly are they reviewing?
However, if this is the new trend of the Statesman, I would like to
propose my new article series called The Preemptive Book Critic where I review
books that haven’t come out yet based entirely on their covers. I could then
segue this into my next set of articles that describe how you can judge a
person by “the look of ’em,” by their race and color. Alright, enough of
that, the real point is that you should get rid of this pointless “thing,”
please.
Stu Baker