Bob Garfield of NPR, who I had the pleasure of hearing in person in Deadwood earlier this year, has some comments about BuzzFeed's recent decision to ban negative book reviews. He's all for it!
To my way of thinking, BuzzFeed’s heroic initiative will succeed even if it merely eradicates the depressing negativity that has for so long kept literary criticism from becoming a full-fledged economic sector, like agriculture, transport and erectile dysfunction.
It also brings us one step closer to my two lifelong dreams: first, a newspaper that delivers only good news; and second, diet bacon.
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