Word: criticize
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...less likely to share a common pool of information, or the same idea of which events and trends are important, than they were when nearly everyone in town read the same paper and watched the same newscasts. "The biggest single change in the last decade," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, "is that all sorts of upstarts and ruffians and charlatans have elbowed their way into the media tent. News has become everything from Hard Copy to Entertainment Tonight to America Online. In some ways that's very healthy. But now all kinds of rumors and innuendo and conspiracies...
...respond more closely to the needs and interests of the communities they cover, using focus groups and reader polls. "To the extent that public journalism weans reporters from political insiders and forces them to talk to ordinary people, it's an incredibly healthy development," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz. "But you can push it too far and become a player instead of a chronicler of the news." A player--or even a booster: the Miami Herald has been criticized, for instance, for running more of what Jim Mullin, editor of the New Times, a Miami weekly, calls "upbeat...
ASSASSINATED. ANDREI LUKANOV, 58, Bulgaria's first post-communist socialist Prime Minister and a critic of the current economically and politically embattled socialist-led government; by an unknown gunman or gunmen; outside his home in Sofia...
...depressing, that song and dance she did on the talk shows," noted cultural critic and openly bisexual Camille Paglia. "She was asking America, 'Is it O.K.? Will you still like me if...?' It was wimpy. It robbed the act of any courage." But then Ellen, a onetime Top 10 show that plummeted to 39th in the ratings last season, has never been marked by bold confidence. Aimless and conceptually muddled from the outset, when it debuted as These Friends of Mine in March 1994, the sitcom has become so creatively stultified that a controversy over homosexuality is truly the least...
...gasp--sideline critic...