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Thread #116174   Message #2493517
Posted By: GUEST,Tom Bliss
14-Nov-08 - 04:59 AM
Thread Name: geantrai
Subject: RE: geantrai
Dick's link as a clicky Here

Puzzled by this story I'd finally found this page myself yesterday.

As the fRoots thread is closed, I hope Ian may pop back here to see that there was perhaps a more benign explanation for Dick's post than there seemed to be at first - (I'm not quite sure why either he or Max is quite so angry with Dick though).

There seems to be an unwritten law that artists should never question reviews. Obviously we can't question our own reviews (though I'd love to have done so on more than one occasion) but I'm not sure that it's good for journalism for reviewers to be beyond criticism by artist or anyone else for that matter. I do agree that the review rather speaks for itself about both the DVD and the reviewer (whoever it actually was), but that's no reason why it can't be discussed.

Tone of voice is an issue, of course, but we're used to far worse on many forums.

Tom