Dating Columnist Takes courageous Stand Against Tabloid Era! [Vamp Attack! Chick Scolds Lazy Hacks!]

December 18th, 2007 | Category: Tech Talk

Julia Allison, the editor at large for a magazine called Star, has issued a bold treatise in support of the work of Rachel Sklar, the Huffington Post media critic. “Rachel calls out the media on their hypocrisy in a FAIR way, which, it might be noted, is a quality many journalists today sadly lack,” Allison writes. “They seem to think that in order to be critical, they have to be

bitchy/snarky/cruel or—on the other extreme—they don’t analyze critically at all, instead choosing to come down predictably (lazily!) with a hackneyed throw-away blurb and perhaps an ad-hom attack, just to spice things up. It’s nice to see a writer really THINKING about the issues about which she writes. You can tell she’s a lawyer by training.”