So let’s say you’re respected documentary programmer Thom Powers, and you’re miffed that the New York Times’ A.O. Scott made a Top 10 — really Top 16 — list of feature films and only a Top 5 devoted to documentaries. Perhaps you’d get on Twitter and lodge a public complaint, something like this:
NYT’s @AOscott lists his Top 5 docs of the year http://t.co/IPhNjIPgIs Why not 10?
— Thom Powers (@thompowers) December 12, 2013
my response to @thompowers and all other best-of list quibbles is summed up here: http://t.co/56C2coa7cq
— a. o. scott (@aoscott) December 12, 2013
Or, to put it another way:
@vjmfilms I DO WHAT I WANT!!!!
— a. o. scott (@aoscott) December 12, 2013
Just another day at the Paper of Record.
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