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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Kelvin Thompson's June reviews
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 21:21:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 21:21:03 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Summary: Hear, hear, Peter Reiher

Elz: The best thing to do with stupidity is ignore it.
Reiher: I disagree.  The best thing to do with stupidity (or, more precisely,
 ignorance) is educate it.  Ignoring it does no one any good. ...
Elz: ... tell him by mail.
Reiher: Precisely what I did on the "1984" review.  I also asked him if he
 was serious.  No response.  When his review of "My New Partner" came out,
 he was talking about a film which 95% (or more) of the net would never see, ...


Right on, Mr. Reiher.  (I also mailed to him on "1984", by the way).
And what this 95% means is that the "satirical" review of "My New Partner"
would be quite likely to be the ONLY review posted, and therefore many
people would form their opinion of the movie based on it.  So KT did a
disservice to the net for that reason, because what he said, as always,
was that "this is a very bad movie."

Which it isn't.  Or at least, not in my opinion, and I think there are
lots of others who would agree.

On top of that, of course, there is his responsibility for being the cause
of large amounts of flamage from intemperate posters (who don't seem to be
able to tell "r" from "f" :-)).  Freedom of speech does not give you
the right to yell "open fire" in a crowded theater review.

I think it's time we had a "satirical review" of KT.  I have the first
sentence all ready:

	"This is a very bad reviewer."

Anyone want to take it from there?

Mark Brader

P.S. I'm aware that there was another serious review posted besides
mine and that that reviewer didn't like the movie.  Doesn't affect my
point.  I think he was unusually sensitive to what bothered him.