Slate Articles

What I found insightful about the article "On TV Critics, Fandom, and Subjectivity" is that subjectivity comes with being a critic. How couldn't it? You need to be passionate about what you are critiquing with either side you take. However a line should be drawn. Being too opinionated can be a problem, but a bigger problem can be critics being influenced by outside social media. It is important for critics to gain the trust of their followers be saying what they believe, and not what others want them to believe. A hyperlink I clicked on was "New York Times ethics policy". I learned about the purpose, scope, nature, and other standards of the ethic policy. For example, the core purpose is to "enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment". Another link I chose was "pop-culture scholar" and learned it is a TV blog written by Myles McNutt that reviews and analyzes a wide range of television series. He focuses on being diverse and open to interpretation.

What I learned in "The TV Guide" is the impact a weekly coverage of an episode in a series can impact what is being criticized. These days a series is no longer being criticized for few episodes then left up to the audience to decide, but rather each episode every week is being torn apart from character development to cultural symbolism. This can be harmful because viewers lose sight of the big picture, being too focused on the detail of each separate episode, ultimately losing the ultimate message. The hyperlink "Lost" went into further detail about the audience's disappointment with how the series ended. I feel it is a shame that the writers kept loyal fans for so many years only to produce a finale that was less than satisfactory. When this happens the show does not only wrong the viewers but itself as well. Another hyperlink "cancelled after one season" I found the first paragraph most interesting. It taught me that when a show is cancelled, TV executives will go out of their way to avoid the issue by saying it was taken off the schedule, is hiatus, or no decisions have been made. Excepting failure is never an easy thing for Hollywood to do.