Point-Counterpoint
Donald Trump, addressing Liberty University commencement:
“Nothing is
easier — or more pathetic — than being a critic, because they’re people that
can’t get the job done.”
Mary McNamara,
LA Times television critic: “Well, the obvious first response is that this is
pretty rich coming from a man who has spent years criticizing many, many people
including and especially President Obama, mostly through the facile and
pot-shotty platform of Twitter. Perhaps that is what he means by ‘nothing is
easier than being a critic.’
“Still, even that sort of criticism remains an important part
of our democracy, which was, after all, born of criticism. What were the
founding father if not critics?"
—James Warren’s “Morning MediaWire,” The Poynter Institute
for Media Studies, May 15, 2017
• Editorial Comment: What would that critical SOB Tom Jefferson say?
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